Psychiatry and the cinema

Bibliographic Information

Psychiatry and the cinema

Glen O. Gabbard and Krin Gabbard

American Psychiatric Press, c1999

2nd ed

  • pbk. : alk. paper
  • hbk.

Available at  / 8 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Filmography: p. 315-352

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-374) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This text examines psychiatry and the cinema. It looks at the typology, mythology, and ideology of the psychiatrist in movies. It also examines psychoanalytic film criticism and such issues as narcissm in the cinema, and phallic women in contemporary cinema.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The Psychiatrist in the Movies: Typology, Mythology, Ideology
  • the Alienist, the Quack, and the Oracle
  • Golden Age
  • the Fall from Grace
  • the Female Psychotherapist in the Movies
  • Clinical Implications. Part 2 The Psychiatrist at the Movies: Methodology and Psychoanalytic Film Criticism
  • Play it Again, Sigmund - Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Classic Hollywood Text
  • "Women" - Robert Altman's Dream World
  • Narcissism in the Cinema I - the Cinematic Autobiography
  • Narcissism in the Cinema II - the Celebrity
  • "Alien" and Aliens
  • Phallic Women in the Contemporary Cinema
  • Filmography.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top