Is Mel Gibson's puppet from The Beaver a real form of therapy? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine

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Is Mel Gibson's puppet from The Beaver a real form of therapy? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine

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In The Beaver, Mel Gibson plays a depressed man who tells his wife that his shrink gave him a "prescription puppet"that is "designed to create a psychological distance between himself and the negative aspects of his personality."(In fact, he found the p

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