A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

SINCE BEN AFFLECK AND MATT DAMON WROTE IT, I SUPPOSE IT'S THEIR FAULT: The AV Club's Mike D'Angelo explains why an oft-quoted scene from Good Will Hunting is utter bullshit from a therapeutic perspective. "Even if this exchange had been more credibly written and acted," D'Angelo writes, "It still badly distorts the practice of therapy, sending the message that a counselor is supposed to feed you the answers to your problems rather than create a context in which you come to some sort of meaningful revelation on your own. And if you don’t immediately accept the answer to your problem, this scene tells us, then it’s the shrink’s duty to pinch your nostrils shut and shove the answer down your throat until you finally swallow. "