Click Here to Read: THE MOVIES ON MY MIND: Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould, directed by Francois Girard. O RARE GLENN GOULD! reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg. Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould and most of the other films cited in Dr. Greenberg’s review are available either through Netflix, Ebay, or Amazon.com, as well as special internet sites.  Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website, http://www.doctorgreenberg.net.  Dr. Greenberg welcomes comment, criticism, and further discussion, of his reviews.

Click Here To Read: Psychiatrist analyzes his film hero: Chaplin created great art from pain, he says By Linda Matchan in the Boston Globe on August 2, 2009.

Click Here To Read:    Free Screening & Discussion of Charlie Chaplin’s film THE KID, CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART on Thursday, August 6th @ 6 PM.

Click Here To Read:  Review/Film: Appointment With Death (1988) Recasts Ustinov as Poirot By Vincent Canby in the New York Times on April 15, 1988.

Click Here To Read: Therapists in Film: Bad Shrinks Aren’t New by Glen Gabbard in a Letter To The New York Timeson July 30, 2009.

Click Here To Read: DKos Chess Tournament: Searching For Bobby Fischer by SuperBowlXX on the Daily Kos website on  July 25, 2009.

 Click Here To Read: Physician, Drug Thyself: Psychiatrist in Hollywood by Stephen Holder in the New York Times on July 24, 2009.

by H.H. Stein

“Any of the psychic danger situations can evoke regression to manifestations of ‘anal narcissism’—an attempt to master overwhelming feeling by a kind of emotional sphincter action, narrowing down the world to the controllable and the predictable. … the attainment of anal sphincter control functions … as a means to master primal (murderous, cannibalistic) affect.” (Shengold, 1985 p. 47)

“There’s always an alien battle cruiser or a Korilian death ray or intergalactic plague that’s about to wipe out life on this miserable planet. The only way people get on with their happy lives is, they do not know about it.” (Men in Black, 1997, dir. Barry Sonnenfeld) Continue reading Anal Fantasies and Anal Defenses in “Men in Black”

 Click Here To Read: The Movies On My Mind: Breaking the Waves, directed by Lars Van Trier, Reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg. Breaking the Waves and most of the other films cited in Dr. Greenberg’s review are available either through Netflix, Ebay, or Amazon.com, as well as special internet sites.  Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website, http://www.doctorgreenberg.net.  Dr. Greenberg welcomes comment, criticism, and further discussion, of his reviews.

Click Here To Read: Freedom through Re-introjection: Film Review Essay on the film ‘Harry, he’s here to help’ – A Kleinian Perspective, directed by Dominik Moll, reviewed by Dr Candy Aubry on the CPFF Website.

 Click Here To Read: Whereof One Should Not Speak: Crumb, Directed by Terry Zwigoff, reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg.  Crumb and most of the other films cited in Dr. Greenberg’s review are available either through Netflix, Ebay, or Amazon.com, as well as special internet sites.  Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website,   http://www.doctorgreenberg.net.  Dr. Greenberg welcomes comment, criticism, and further discussion, of his reviews.