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Cinema's sinister psychiatrists

Sharon Packer · 2012

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"This book discusses films with diabolical drugging, unethical experimentation, involuntary incarceration, sexual exploitation, lobotomies, "shock schlock," conspiracy theories and military medicine, to show how fact informs fantasy, and when fantasy trumps reality. Except for six "golden years" from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was"--

Book details

Year
2012
Language
English
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Editions
3
Pages
245
ISBN
9780786463909

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