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James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

New Books in Psychology

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The Worst Therapist of All

The therapist in I can never promise you rose garden is portraying something that unfortunately may be a little bit too close to what some people really experience. Another really bad therapist is the therapist in the movie Harold and Maude, who basically talks at the patient the whole time. And probably the single worst therapist of all, but it's meant totally to be comic is Peter Sellers in what's new pussycat.

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