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Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari is not cinema's first psychotic charlatan, but he launches the stereotype of screen psychiatrists who are sicker than their patients. Many film psychiatrists function as political metaphors, while many more reflect real life clinical controversies.
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. Traditional asylum thrillers changed after hospital stays shortened and laws protected people against involuntary commitment. Except for six short "golden years" from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: From Caligari to Hannibal the Cannibal
1. Mad Military Mind Docs
2. Hypnosis: Helping Hand or Evil Eye
3. Sweet (and Sour) Dreams
4. Spirit Possession and Supernatural Psychiatrists
5. Sex, Seduction and the "Couch Cure"
6. The Not-So-Gentle Gender
7. Shock Schlock
8. Lobotomies and the Like
9. Diabolical Drugging (and Other Deceptions)
10. Unethical Experimentation
11. In Control or in Cahoots
12. Madhouse Movies, Involuntary Incarceration (and Managed Care)
Conclusion: Evil Sorcerers, Mad Scientists and Sinister Psychiatrists
Filmography
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
