By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology,
Packer offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the
most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence
upon our lives today. Movies and the Modern Psyche first describes
the basic concepts of psychoanalysis, experimental psychology,
behavioral conditioning, and hypnosis, which have all played major
roles in the histories of both film and psychiatry. It then goes on
to discuss the recent rise in film therapy, drug treatments,
treatment for drug abuse, and the closing of asylums, to show how
shifts in treatment techniques, theories, and settings are
foreshadowed and fossilized by film. Psychology and cinema are
kindred cousins, born at the same time and developing together, so
that each influences the other. From the mind-controlling villains
that occupy early horror films and Cold War thrillers (like
Caligari, Mabuse, and The Ipcress File), to the asylums that house
numberless political allegories and personal dramas (in Shock
Corridor, Spellbound, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Girl
Interrupted), to the drugs, phobias, and disorders that pervade so
many of our favorite films (including, as a small sample, Vertigo,
Night of the Hunter, Psycho, Rainman, Fight Club, Requiem for a
Dream, and Batman Begins), there is no escaping either psychology
in the movies, or the movies in psychology. By looking at the
interactions between cinema and psychology, this book offers
readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental
reasons why film is such an important influence upon our lives
today. Movies and the Modern Psyche first describes the basic
concepts of psychoanalysis, experimental psychology, behavioral
conditioning, and hypnosis, which have all played major roles in
the histories of both film and psychiatry. It then goes on to
discuss the recent rise in film therapy, drug treatments, treatment
for drug abuse, and the closing of asylums, to show how shifts in
treatment techniques, theories, and settings are foreshadowed and
fossilized by film.
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