Glen O. Gabbard (in The Psychology of the Sopranos: Love, Death, Desire and Betrayal in Television’s Greatest Drama — but also a standalone essay in Academic Psychiatry )

“Will’s reluctance to embrace his intellectual gifts is not laziness, but a protective identity formed in response to abuse and abandonment.”

Tracy L. Cross Journal: Journal for the Education of the Gifted (1999)

Nadine Dolby Journal: Cinema Journal (2006)