Comments on: Psychiatry at the movies

By: Wonks Anonymous

Wonks Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:00:01 +0000

In my limited reading of Szasz, I don’t recall him suggesting that any psychiatric patient was particularly enlightened. He seems to portray them more as antisocial or malingerers. He has always been keen to contrast his view with “anti-psychiatrists” like Laing.

By: Christopher Crook

Christopher Crook — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:09:06 +0000

Takin’ over the Asylum was very good and featured a young David Tennant whose manic delusions come true and he actually becomes a time traveller, I mean radio star.

By: Squitchtweak

Squitchtweak — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:50:29 +0000

I’ve thought about this a lot actually – how psychiatry and mental problems are portrayed in film, and also, on television. I remember so many television programmes I watched as a child that had scenes which poked fun at a Freudian ‘Dr Dippy’. They generally also mocked the idea of people ‘needing help’, as I suppose people do in day to day life. It’s no wonder I was afraid of treatment, I think, but perhaps I take all this a bit seriously…

By: Prozacville

Prozacville — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:45:11 +0000

Looking forward to reading your review.

By: Neuroskeptic

Neuroskeptic — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:26:10 +0000

There was an article in the Guardian about this a couple of days ago.

It annoyed me because it criticized The Crazies which is one of the best horror films of recent years (and not really about mental illness anyway, it’s about a toxic encephalitis – more like rabies than anything else.)

He made some pretty sensible points though overall.