Early in the history of cinema, psychiatrists studied the movies to understand their appeal and power. Meanwhile, filmmakers have long been intrigued by psychiatry and frequently portray this mysterious world in film. Both movies and psychiatry focus on human thought, emotions, behavior, and motivationAmaking a link between the two subjects inevitable. Psychiatry and the Cinema explores this complementary relationship from two angles, psychiatrists who have studied the movies and movies that have depicted psychiatry. This second edition looks at: -Over 400 theatrically-released American films that feature psychiatrists or other mental health professionals at work -The stereotypical characters and conventions dominating the presentation of movie psychiatrists and the historical rise and fall of the psychotherapist image in the movies -New trends in psychoanalytically oriented film theory -State-of-the-art understanding of psychoanalytic film criticism and illustrative examples of the use of that methodology with films such as Casablanca, Alien, Three Women, Sea of Love, Working Girl, Good Will Hunting, and many more -Clinical implications of the film representations of psychotherapy for the mental health practitioner Both entertaining and educational, this book serves as an important aid in understanding the special hold that movies have on audiences.
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The authorsKrin Gabbard teaches comparative literature at the State University of New York; Glen Gabbard, his brother, is a psychoanalyst at the C. F. Menninger Memorial Hospital in Kansascombine their areas of expertise in this two-part study: the first half examines the depictions of psychiatry and its practitioners in film from earliest days to the 1980s; and the second, which will prove less interesting to general readers, offers in-depth psychological analyses of seven films, including three by Woody Allen. The historical portion reveals three distinct eras. Up to 1957, psychiatrists were portrayed either as benevolent guidance counselors or as incompetent, often malevolent, quacks. In what the Gabbards term the "Golden Age," from 1958 to 1964, psychiatric healers were treated sympathetically. From 1965 to the film Ordinary People, they were shown almost exclusively as evil, exploitative or as agents of a repressive society. An intriguing, instructive work. Photos not seen by PW.
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"Now released in a second edition, it remains the definitive inquiry about that curious bedfellowship of psychiatry and American film that has flourished since the medium's advent near the century's turn."-- "Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, Vol. 188(9)", "September 2000"
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As a psychiatrist and also a great movie fan, I always eagered for a book which reviews movies from the viewpoint of 'pschoanalysis'. At last I found this book. What I liked most about this book is that it covers recent movies, like 'Good Will Hunting' or '12 Monkeys', which are my favorites. The stories of the reflected images and their changes throughout the film history of the psychiatrists who appeared in the movies were also interesting.
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As a psychiatrist and also a great movie fan, I always eagered for a book which reviews movies from the viewpoint of 'pschoanalysis'. At last I found this book. What I liked most about this book is that it covers recent movies, like 'Good Will Hunting' or '12 Monkeys', which are my favorites. The stories of the reflected images and their changes throughout the film history of the psychiatrists who appeared in the movies were also interesting.
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The changing images of psychiatry during some ninety years of American cinema offer a unique opportunity to assess the complex interactions between different currents in twentieth-century American culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
movie psychiatrists, psychiatry and the cinema, psychoanalytic film criticism, cinematic autobiography, cathartic cure, female psychotherapist, thematic paradigm, movie myths, female psychiatrist, official hero, female analyst, manic defenses, outlaw hero, black psychiatrist, female therapist, phallic woman Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Woody Allen, Film Stills Archive, The Snake Pit, The Museum of Modern Art, Stardust Memories, Blind Alley, The Three Faces of Eve, New York, Ordinary People, Sea of Love, United States, The Cobweb, The Purple Rose of Cairo, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ingrid Bergman, All That Jazz, Fear Strikes Out, Private Worlds, Home of the Brave, Natalie Wood, Pressure Point, Rupert Pupkin, Twentieth Century-Fox, Working Girl, Ginger Rogers New!
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The changing images of psychiatry during some ninety years of American cinema offer a unique opportunity to assess the complex interactions between different currents in twentieth-century American culture. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Woody Allen, Film Stills Archive, The Snake Pit, The Museum of Modern Art, Stardust Memories, Blind Alley, The Three Faces of Eve, New York, Ordinary People, Sea of Love, United States, The Cobweb, The Purple Rose of Cairo, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ingrid Bergman, All That Jazz, Fear Strikes Out, Private Worlds, Home of the Brave, Natalie Wood, Pressure Point, Rupert Pupkin, Twentieth Century-Fox, Working Girl, Ginger Rogers New!
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- Dreams in Myth, Medicine, and Movies: by Sharon Packer on page 45, page 197, and Back Matter
- Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture (Jazz & American Culture) by Krin Gabbard in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs by Jonathan Michel Metzl on page 77, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Screen Memories by Harvey Greenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beyond the Latin Lover: Marcello Mastroianni, Masculinity, and Italian Cinema by Jacqueline Reich in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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