Psychiatry and the Cinema

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 motivation-making a link between the two subjects inevitable. Psychiatry and the Cinemaexplores 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.

Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., is Professor and Director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic at the Baylor College of Medicine and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in Houston, Texas. He was previously Director of the Menninger Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. Dr. Gabbard is the author or editor of sixteen books and currently is joint Editor-in-Chief and Editor for North America of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His numerous awards include the 2000 Mary Sigourney Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis.

Krin Gabbard, Ph.D., teaches film, literature, and cultural studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema (1996) and editor of Jazz Among the Discourses (1995) and Representing Jazz (1995). He is currently working on a book about movies, masculinity, and music.

About the Authors
Illustrations
Foreword
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
The Psychiatrist in the Movies
Typology, Mythology, Ideology	p. 3
The Alienist, the Quack, and the Oracle	p. 35
The Golden Age	p. 75
The Fall from Grace	p. 107
The Female Psychotherapist in the Movies	p. 147
Clinical Implications	p. 171
The Psychiatrist at the Movies
Methodology and Psychoanalytic Film Criticism	p. 189
Play It Again, Sigmund: Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Classical Hollywood Text	p. 205
3 Women: Robert Altman's Dreamworld	p. 221
Narcissism in the Cinema I: The Cinematic Autobiography	p. 233
Narcissism in the Cinema II: The Celebrity	p. 251
Alien and Melanie Klein's Night Music	p. 277
"Phallic" Women in the Contemporary Cinema	p. 293
Epilogue	p. 309
A Filmography for the Depiction of Psychiatry in the American Cinema	p. 315
Chronology	p. 353
References	p. 363
Subject Index	p. 375
Film Index	p. 401
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