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Demons of the mind : psychiatry and cinema in the long 1960s / Tim Snelson, William Macauley, David Allen Kirby.

By: Snelson, Tim [author.]Contributor(s): Macauley, William R [author.] | Kirby, David A. (David Allen), 1968- [author.]Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024Description: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0053369096ISBN: 9781474486415 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Psychoanalysis and motion pictures | Motion pictures -- History -- 20th century | Performing Arts | Films, cinema | Film history, theory & criticism | Reference works | History of medicine | Individual film directors, film-makers | Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) | c 1960 to c 1969 | PsychologyDDC classification: 791.43019 LOC classification: PN1995.9.P783 | S6 2024
Contents:
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Psychiatry, Cinema and the Long 1960s; 1. Morally Acceptable Madness: psychiatry, Catholics and censorship at the Legion of Decency; 2. The BBFC’s ‘psychiatrist friends’: psychiatric consultation and the British censors; 3. Freud goes to Hollywood: translating psychoanalysis to cinema; 4. Mad housewives and women’s liberation: the psychiatric reinvention of the ‘woman’s film’; 5. Radical collaborations: ‘anti-psychiatry’ on-screen; 6. Aetiology of a murder: forensic psychiatry and the evolution of true crime; Conclusion: aftershocks; Notes; Index
Summary: In the 1960s, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by audiences. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Demons of the Mind provides the first interdisciplinary account of the complex contestations and cross-pollinations of the psy sciences (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology) and cinema in Britain and America during the defining long 1960s period of the late-1950s to early-1970s. This interdisciplinary book incorporates expertise from film studies, history of science and medicine, and science communication. The originality of this book is not solely its interdisciplinarity and exploration beyond the narrow study of representational practices typically the primary focus of other books on cinema and the psy professions. In large part, this books originality rests on its investigation of situated practices and interplay between ideas, expertise and professionals that constitute the fields of mental health and media.
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In the 1960s, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by audiences.
Drawing upon extensive archival research, Demons of the Mind provides the first interdisciplinary account of the complex contestations and cross-pollinations of the 'psy' sciences (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology) and cinema in Britain and America during the defining 'long 1960s' period of the late-1950s to early-1970s.
This interdisciplinary book incorporates expertise from film studies, history of science and medicine, and science communication. The originality of this book is not solely its interdisciplinarity and exploration beyond the narrow study of representational practices - typically the primary focus of other books on cinema and the psy professions. In large part, this book's originality rests on its investigation of situated practices and interplay between ideas, expertise and professionals that constitute the fields of mental health and media.

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Psychiatry, Cinema and the Long 1960s; 1. Morally Acceptable Madness: psychiatry, Catholics and censorship at the Legion of Decency; 2. The BBFC’s ‘psychiatrist friends’: psychiatric consultation and the British censors; 3. Freud goes to Hollywood: translating psychoanalysis to cinema; 4. Mad housewives and women’s liberation: the psychiatric reinvention of the ‘woman’s film’; 5. Radical collaborations: ‘anti-psychiatry’ on-screen; 6. Aetiology of a murder: forensic psychiatry and the evolution of true crime; Conclusion: aftershocks; Notes; Index

In the 1960s, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by audiences. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Demons of the Mind provides the first interdisciplinary account of the complex contestations and cross-pollinations of the psy sciences (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology) and cinema in Britain and America during the defining long 1960s period of the late-1950s to early-1970s. This interdisciplinary book incorporates expertise from film studies, history of science and medicine, and science communication. The originality of this book is not solely its interdisciplinarity and exploration beyond the narrow study of representational practices typically the primary focus of other books on cinema and the psy professions. In large part, this books originality rests on its investigation of situated practices and interplay between ideas, expertise and professionals that constitute the fields of mental health and media.

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