TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snelson,Tim
AU  - Macauley,William R.
AU  - Kirby,David A.
TI  - Demons of the mind: psychiatry and cinema in the long 1960s 
SN  - 9781474486415 (hbk.) :
AV  - PN1995.9.P783 S6 2024
U1  - 791.43019 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Psychoanalysis and motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Performing Arts
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Films, cinema
KW  - thema
KW  - Film history, theory & criticism
KW  - Reference works
KW  - History of medicine
KW  - Individual film directors, film-makers
KW  - Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)
KW  - c 1960 to c 1969
KW  - Psychology
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -