"The prevalent theme of Cowboy Bebop is the notion of being unable to escape from your own past."
"When you surrender to Area X, your sense of self is annihilated."
"You're the risk of falling into an endless loop."
"Our own personal monsters lie in wait, ravenous."
"In firewatch, you have some control over your own paranoia."
"Vincent enters the foreboding nightmare world where he must overcome the massive blocks in his life."
"Monsters allow us to visualize these fears and help us deal with them more easily."
"Thinking about him is you leaving your life. It's like the world of the dead."
"The loss and deprivation of maternal love is really full of peril."
"Clarice's loss of innocence is never an overtly sexual one; it's entirely psychological."
"Relationships tend to have a ghost in the machine dynamic."
"The whole premise of the storyline is just this beautiful metaphor for the inner demons of depression and how they very much do exist despite the fact that they appear invisible or non-existent to the naked eye."
"This film draws its symbolism and themes from homosexuality and its repression, alcoholism and the struggle to overcome it, Greek mythology, the works of Carl Jung, and general myths regarding the sea derived from the superstitions of sailors."
"Tommy is suffering in his own personal hell, overseen by his own shadow, Thomas Wake."
"Hope and despair, the children of desire, the ultimate motivation to achieve, or destroy."
"Horror movies can be nuanced artful examinations of trauma and redemption, cathartic vehicles by which to experience that which frightens you from the safety of a movie theater or your own home."
"Intoxicating vices that allow them to escape their dreary melancholic worlds."
"Re:Zero represents the logical extreme of otaku obsession and entitlement."
"The man didn't shoot at his real self; he shot his reflection in the mirror."
"The synthetic rewrite, remember that? Literally, in Babylon Berlin last night, do you remember the doctor, the mind control doctor in Babylon Berlin?"
"For my final entry, maybe the best person for Mark to team up with is himself."
"Body horror offers us a chance at self-reflection in a very sneaky way."
"They’re being hunted by a distorted echo of themselves."
"Even if Walker doesn't even if you select what appears to be the closest thing to an escape from Dubai there's a final line that tells you Walker died and that this is his personal hell."
"Sayonara Oshiite: A game about trauma, descending into madness, and the blurring of reality."
"We're reminded once again that Joel is a Broken Man."
"It brilliantly sets up the demon as capable of switching between physical and psychological violence to get what it wants."
"Loneliness is one of the scariest human emotions."
"It demonstrated the depth anime could achieve with its dense psychological themes and innovative direction."
"Total Recall: an adventure which tests the boundaries of dreams and reality."
"The story as it nears its end also insists upon the necessity of confronting that which terrifies you and poisons you the most voluntarily."
"I liked it a lot. I embrace movies that kind of go to the darker side of your mind."
"Madness: You aren't even safe within your own mind."
"Her story is about ideology stubbornness self-blame survival and the true nature of strength she spends the whole volume watching her ironclad resolve and steadfast mindset melt away before her broken down by others and herself."
"Having your trauma be the antagonist of the film or at least of select scenes is something really cool."
"Yeah, I mean the first season is very much about PTSD, is very much about survivor's guilt, yeah much about endurance, about not not succumbing to the past even when the past is may present."
"We wake up in the same hospital room from the start of the game, room 206, only to discover that the events were in Alex's head."
"Such a great character was such an elaborate web of manipulation."
"Let's have a Legion ride where it questions your entire sanity the whole time."
"Silent Hill 2 is ultimately a character study. James is one of the most unique protagonists in video games."
"Pyramid Head embodies his dark side, that's why it later chases him, leading him towards the truth."
"I see black shadows everywhere, the blood, the messages, the screaming."
"It's a clever setup a brilliant change of pace and allows Ethan Hawke to channel Carl Jung."
"A cautionary tale... trapped in an invisible cage."
"Rina was just totally different... something inside of her had snapped"
"Evangelion: focusing on inward look at characters."
"You society Gotham, the way it was portrayed, was the best Gotham I've seen."
"Transformational entertainment is at an explication of internal processes that show up as shadow play as light play on the screen of the outer world."
"It's a season all about the subject of anxieties and the different ways they can take form."
"Silent Hill 2 is one of the most interesting delves into mental illness we've ever seen here in the gaming sphere."
"Perfect Blue is a film that truly was ahead of its time."
"Moon Knight is a mix of Egyptian Indiana Jones and Fight Club."
"In her enforced silence, the protagonist finds an odd kind of fortitude in the wallpaper."
"I take a very positive message from Dark Souls 1, namely that it's an allegory for depression and playing through and overcoming its challenges can act as a means by which to confront your own problems..."
"Spider-Man has the best rogues gallery... They have such a great psychological thing going on."
"Night in the Woods is a game about anxiety and the pitfalls that come with it."
"Overall, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning had all the foundation to wow audiences and make them excited for a new direction in the series with a greater psychological angle and elements of mystery but tripped on the execution."
"Fran Bao has themes of childhood trauma, adults and corruption, escapism, mental fragility, and coping mechanisms."
"Joker has a motivation to prove that anyone can be like him with one bad day."
"Berserk is a dark fantasy, it's an action series, it's a horror story, a traumatizing psychological experience, but it's also a romance."
"Brainwashing is kind of just a staple in a lot of kids' shows, right? But I feel like Avatar is one of the only ones that really capture the horror behind it."
"It's gaslighting and delusion on the big screen."
"The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is about the stages of grief."
"Deep Space Nine deals with imposter syndrome."
"I feel like Daphne as a character really represents this anxiety and this feeling of like lack of control in our lives and I just think this was brilliant."
"Strength means embracing shadows," she whispered, her voice echoing through the hollow building.
"It's crazy how science fiction and fantasy can really tap into the most horrifying parts of your brain."
"Robotnik twisted Sonic's mind even more, blaming him for everyone's deaths."
"Randy Orton's viper character was built especially when he started hearing voices in his head."
"Groundhog Day is not only an extremely easy film to watch, it's also a profound film about you and your own mental prison."
"This movie is a dissection of grief manifested, of escaping your traumas, trauma itself."
"Nightmares and redemption come in many forms."
"He pioneered a psychological literature that influenced several writers like Ernest Hemingway and Franz Kafka."