Directed by Kelly Freeman Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023) is a film adaptation of the Judy Blume young-adult novel. Social, biological, and (to a much smaller extent) identity issues of puberty’s early edge are presented with charming verisimilitude (and earned a 99% positive rating on RottenTomatoes.com). In our discussion we will have opportunities to discuss the psychodynamic issues explicit in the film…and, importantly, unaddressed psychodynamic issues operating below the surface.

Discussants:  Ronnie Kaye, PhD, LMFT and Deborah Lynn, MD