The TV show 'Severance' exposes the mechanisms of workplace bullying. A requirement to suppress your emotions may well be a red flag that managers are, in fact, repressing their own.

I name this phenomenon utopian repression. By repression I mean both the psychological repression of uncomfortable thoughts and political repression of political adversaries.

is also leading a seemingly severed life as another individual who presents herself as “Mrs. Selvig,” it provides a flash of insight into the psychological mechanism of repression. Dr. Hawkins ...