Cinema's sinister psychiatrists

By Sharon Packer

Subjects: Psychiatry, Motion pictures in psychotherapy, Psychiatry in motion pictures, Mental health personnel in motion pictures, Medicine in Art, Motion Pictures as Topic, Psychoanalysis in motion pictures

Description: "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"--