Psychiatry and the cinema

Authors:Glen O. Gabbard, Krin Gabbard, American Psychiatric Press (Publisher)

Summary: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.

Edition:Second edition View all formats and editions

Physical Description:XXVI, 408 stron : ilustracje ; 23 cm.

ISBN:

9780880489645, 9780880488266, 0880489642, 0880488263

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1050864916

Subjects:

Krytyka filmowa aspekt psychologiczny

Psychiatria w kinie

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.