Fictional worlds. Real psychology. Stories worth exploring.
Fiction gives us a place to explore very real parts of being human. Therapy After Midnight is where I look at fictional characters, relationships, families, and the worlds around them through the lens of psychology.
Sometimes that means talking about trauma, grief, attachment, identity, personality, relationships, addiction, or mental health diagnoses. Other times, the more interesting question is whether a diagnosis is even an appropriate way to understand what we are seeing.
These characters are not real clients, and these articles are not clinical assessments. They are fictional stories that give us a place to explore real psychology, including the parts that are complicated, uncomfortable, or difficult to explain.
Choose a World
Each world has its own collection. Some may focus on individual characters. Others may grow into larger archives exploring families, relationships, events, systems, and the psychology woven throughout the story.
Five Nights at Freddy’s
The FNAF Files
A deep dive into the characters, families, children, animatronics, incidents, mysteries, and psychological themes throughout the Five Nights at Freddy’s universe.
Slasher Film Characters
A closer look at iconic slasher characters through a psychological lens, including what their stories suggest about trauma, identity, violence, fear, and the ways horror builds a character around what we cannot easily explain.
Euphoria
Unmasking Euphoria
A closer look at Rue, Nate, Cassie, Jules, Maddy, Lexi, and the relationships around them through addiction, grief, attachment, identity, control, trauma, family systems, and the psychology beneath what we see on screen.
The Vampire Diaries Universe
The Mystic Falls Diaries
A closer look at Mystic Falls, New Orleans, the Salvatore School, and the characters, families, relationships, grief, trauma, identity, morality, and supernatural psychology woven throughout The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies.
More Worlds Are Coming
The Wizard of Oz and other fictional worlds can each have their own space here as Therapy After Midnight grows.