The Sopranos (TV Series)

Johnny Cakes (2006)

Peter Bogdanovich: Dr. Elliot Kupferberg

Quotes 

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : My father is an old man: it's ridiculous to let himself disintegrate like this

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : How's it going with patient Soprano?

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : [when she doesn't respond]  What?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I'm talking about my father

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : I thought you were done

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : It happens too often

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : I think that's a non-secular accusation

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Why don't you just admit he's a gangster? He was gunned down and you're into "it" on a "tabloid level"

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : You devoted quite a chunk of your last visit to him, I'm... responding to that

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Nothing's changed, ok? He refuses to engage on the trauma his uncle caused and I think it's just a matter of time before he totally decompensates

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : Has he cried or reported crying at all about this man "Buster"?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [correcting him]  "Junior," no

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : This Omertà concept comes from a pre-therapeutic culture

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : This isn't Omertà, it's "something" else