When I think of the wealth of America, I think of its national concern for psychological well-being. People will actually set aside a number of hours each week to talk to therapists or attend group. They will go to court to demand justice for such crimes as "emotional damage" and "acute psychological stress."
Coming from a family for whom such words never existed, all this is dazzling. In my family, one was either well enough to go to work in the morning, or not. If the latter, one was seriously ill or near death, in which case one had other things to worry about.
But psychology has its drawbacks and limitations and unexpected pitfalls. So says "Dead Man's Curve," a clever spoof on analysis and how it often fails to get at the truth. The directorial debut of Dan Rosen, who also wrote the screenplay, "Dead Man's Curve" draws from a supposedly true policy most universities deploy concerning students who commit suicide.