MAD MEN: Intro to a Series Looking at Don Draper’s Childhood Trauma Reactions …

Characters on the Couch will feature a set of articles on Mad Men – a TV series that Newsweek (March 28 and April 2, 2012) dedicated a double issue to, “Welcome back to 1965.” In her featured article, Eleanor Clift said: “the early 60s … were ‘the good old days . . . only if you happen to have been born white and male and heterosexual.’” Yet the real center of it all is Don Draper’s childhood trauma…