Life lessons from <i>The Truman Show</i>: parenting, adolescence and the therapeutic process

In this paper, the 1998 film The Truman Show is considered as a parable about parenting, adolescence, and patients’ struggle to break free of defensive structures. central conceit that lives in world entirely created by, under control show's director, Christof, with all other characters his life being actors playing semi-scripted parts. paper explores how resonates problems faced by parents when it comes allowing their children freedom develop independently face realities life; difficulties adolescents leaving latency behind encounter themselves more fully; therapeutic task patients relinquishing relative safety symptoms projective mechanisms.