Joanne Intrator M.D.

About

Joanne Intrator, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist who researches psychopathy. She taught a popular course on psychopaths in film at the New School for Social Research. She was also a professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed a fellowship in Psychiatry and Law at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She contributed to The Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, and her recent book is Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and a Daughter’s Quest for Justice.

Recent Posts

'Invasion of the Body Snatchers': A Projective Screen

When our culture produces variations on a theme like the 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' films, it's because it highlights a universal fear and predictable response worth knowing.

Keeping the Fascination With Psychopaths on the Screen

Netflix's "Tom Ripley" is void of color and brilliant but not enviable.

Fighting Greed Makes for Great Theatre and Film

Personal Perspective: Corporations' legal protections tend to overwhelm the struggle for social justice. It takes a brave person, a hero, to go against the odds.

Archetypal Psychopaths in Two Contemporary Films

The film "Killers of the Flower Moon" and "A Zone of Interest" are stories of widespread murder fuelled by genocidal racism, and greed perpetrated by two types of psychopaths.

Examining Courage in Terrence Malick’s Film 'A Hidden Life'

Courage is a complex engagement of various aspects of personality that are not impulsive but rather thought through and examined.

The Unique Existence of Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer's unique start in life left him with incapacitating abandonment so severe that he wished to create a zombie even at the cost of many young mens' lives.

Patricia Highsmith: How Sublimation Creates Great Psychopathic Characters

Beware, anyone, if you attempt to tarnish the self-image of a psychopath.

The Psychopath as Hero

Why we remain loyal to characters who tantalize our primitive brains.