The Sopranos (TV Series)

I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano (1999)

Lorraine Bracco: Dr. Jennifer Melfi

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• [Tony urges Dr. Melfi to get out of town for a while] 

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I have patients who are suicidal!

  Tony Soprano : Well they're not gonna feel any better about their life if you get clipped.

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : It's been a long odyssey with your mother, hasn't it?

  Tony Soprano : Oh, these last 500 years just seemed to race by.

• [Tony describes a dream he had about Jean Cusamano] 

  Tony Soprano : I'm doing her doggy-style, and I finish, you know. And her big ass is... look, we don't have time for this shit.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : It's interesting that you would say a big ass, 'cause Jean is quite slender.

  Tony Soprano : We've got bigger things to talk about than Jean Cusamano's ass.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Like feelings of worthlessness sparked by your mother's plot to have you killed?

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Isn't it interesting how this memory loss cropped up right after you failed to be killed in the carjacking? You think it was a carjacking?

  Tony Soprano : Of course not, but I got an idea who was behind it. Enough said. You don't want to go there.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Maybe you don't want to go there.

  Tony Soprano : What are you talking about?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Well, let's track it. Right around the time of the shooting, you were having hallucinations of that Isabella figure. The protective, loving mother. Your subconscience was shouting something at you. On the day before the shooting, you said to me that she kept going on yet again about news stories of mothers throwing their babies out of windows.

  Tony Soprano : Why don't we put our fuckin' cards on the table here. What do you think, my mother tried to have me whacked 'cuz I put her in a nursing home?

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I say what your mother has, at the very least, is what we call borderline personality disorder.

  Tony Soprano : A borderline personality disorder ?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Let me read to you from the DSM-IV okay? Definitions of the condition? "A pattern of unstable relationships . Affective instability , It means intense anxiety, a joylessness. These people's internal phobias are the only things that exist to them. The real world, real people are peripheral. These people have no love or compassion. Borderline personalities are very good at splitting behavior, creating bitterness and conflict between others in their circle."