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Title

Cinema's sinister psychiatrists : from Caligari to Hannibal / Sharon Packer.

Author

Packer, Sharon

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2012.

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Details

Description

ix, 245 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"This book discusses films with diabolical drugging, unethical experimentation, involuntary incarceration, sexual exploitation, lobotomies, "shock schlock," conspiracy theories and military medicine, to show how fact informs fantasy, and when fantasy trumps reality. Except for six "golden years" from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was"--

Subject

• Mental health personnel in motion pictures
• Psychiatry in motion pictures
• Psychoanalysis in motion pictures
• Medicine in the Arts
• Psychiatry
• Motion Pictures

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes filmography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: from Caligari to Hannibal the cannibal -- Mad military mind docs -- Hypnosis: helping hand or evil eye -- Sweet (and sour) dreams -- Spirit possession and supernatural psychiatrists -- Sex, seduction and the "couch cure" -- The not-so-gentle gender -- Shock schlock -- Lobotomies and the like -- Diabolical drugging (and other deceptions) -- Unethical experimentation -- In control or in cahoots -- Madhouse movies, involuntary incarceration (and managed care) -- Conclusion: evil sorcerers, mad scientists, and sinister psychiatrists.

ISBN

• 9780786463909 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786463902 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012030298

OCLC

• 779877027
• SCSB-13196261

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library