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Apr 2018
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Trauma and Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Popcorn Psychology
About this episode
Three Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors review Star Wars: The Last Jedi and cover the topics of Trauma, PTSD, and Abusive Relationships and how they impacted the plot and characters of Luke Skywalker, Kylo Ren, Supreme Leader Snoke, and Rey. We discuss the impact Trauma symptoms and abusive relationships have on the characters and discuss how it is represented in the film, how it may look in real life, and how we as professionals would treat the characters if they were to walk into our offices.

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