A teacher at a private school in 1970s New York begins to see a psychoanalyst several times a week because he struggles with awkwardness and timidity in social settings. The analyst encourages the man to pursue a wealthy widow whose children attend his school.

When a young father is hired for an English instructorship position, he struggles to balance playing the role of a teacher and meeting the university’s demands for a published scholar.

As a university professor acts as a sounding board for everyone else’s problems, her own stress mounts to a dangerous peak.

In a lengthy dialogue, two men, possibly a psychologist and a patient, discuss adultery, sin, desire, and life.

A professor conceives a plan with a magician where he can be transported into the world of fictional characters. He tries to have an affair with Emma from Madame Bovary, but when he brings her into New York, things go awry.

A professor of neurobiology describes to horrified police officers how he snapped under his famous physicist wife's controlling tendencies and murdered her.

A disillusioned professor finds himself challenging the university when he learns that one of his students is facing physical abuse at home, leading to a confrontation that ultimately reinforces his hopelessness.

A patient attends regular sessions with his psychiatrist but stubbornly refuses to tell the doctor his true thoughts.

When a charismatic new econ history teacher moves in next door and gains a mass following at an Ohio university, the physical education instructor wonders if he is really worth the hype.

Accused of murder by a madman, a psychotherapist is given 50 minutes to answer for his crimes.