Click Here to Read: Cyrus, Reviewed by Manchla Dargis in The New York Times on June 18, 2010.

Click Here to Read: The Man Behind the Dreamscape by Dave Itzkoff in The New York Times on June 30, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Marilyn Monroe on the couch. To Dr Ralph Greenson, Marilyn Monroe was more than just a patient. Now, for the first time, his family recall their favourite ‘big sister’. By Christopher Turner on the Telegraph.UK website on June 23, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Mahler on the Couch — Film Review by Kirk Honeycutt on the Hollywood Reporter website on June 23, 2010

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by Herbert H. Stein

Why was Forrest Gump so popular?

When I first saw it in the summer of ’94 , the answer seemed simple.  Forrest Gump came out at a time when the main competition consisted of fantasies and explosion films that ranged from awful to mediocre, including Speed, North, True Lies, and It Could Happen to You.  “In the valley of the blind, the one- Continue reading Losing the Forrest for the Gump

Click Here to View and Read:  The film of “The Brain That Changes Itself” by Norman Doige and Mike Sheerin and the article, “The Death of Neurological Nihilism” about the film, written by Norman Doidge.

Click Here to View: Video: Psychoanalysis in the 1940s on the Wellsphere website on May 16, 2010.

Sigmund Freud

by Herbert H. Stein

Some day you can tell your grandchildren (it might even be now) that there was a time (1956) when psychoanalysis was so prominent in the popular culture that it was used as the basis for the plot of a glossy, high budget science fiction film with flying saucers and a powerful humanoid robot. I’m referring to the film, Forbidden Planet, that brought us the tagline, “Monsters from the Id.” I can probably be justly accused of looking a gift horse in the mouth when I say that the filmmakers tended to confuse Freud’s first and second theories; but, that is a sin for which they should be forgiven since many of the psychoanalysts of the time probably fell into the same error.  I also think that a closer examination of the film suggests that those “monsters” are multiply determined and perhaps even more terrible than they seem. Continue reading FORBIDDEN Planet

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Though psychoanalysis has fallen out of fashion in the realms of academia and clinical therapy, it undeniably shaped both (for better and worse) during the 20th century. David Cronenberg’s latest project, A Dangerous Method, aims to bring the talking cure into the multiplex. Based on the play by Christopher Hampton, the story focuses on Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and his treatment and affair with Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a daughter from a prominent medical family whose parental abuse has led to nervous ticks and sadomasochistic tendencies. Continue reading A Dangerous Method from Film Comment Magazine