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Date: January 9, 2013
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Registration 6:00 pm; Presentation 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Speaker(s):
Sharon Packer, MD
Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
Film history is merged with psychiatric history seamlessly, to show how and why bad depictions of mind doctors (especially hypnotists) occur in early film, long before Hannibal Lecter burst upon the scene. The German Expressionist Dr. Caligari is not cinema's first psychotic charlatan, but he launches the stereotype of screen psychiatrists who are sicker than their patients. Many film psychiatrists function as political metaphors, while many more reflect real life clinical controversies.
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. Traditional asylum thrillers changed after hospital stays shortened and laws protected people against involuntary commitment. Except for six short "golden years" from 1957 to 1963, portrayals of bad psychiatrists far outnumber good ones and this book tells how and why that was.
About the Speaker(s)
Sharon Packer, MD, is a New York City psychiatrist in private practice and is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Packer is a Fellow of The New York Academy of Medicine and Executive Committee member of NYAM’s History of Medicine and Public Health Section.
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Cost: Free, but advance registration is required
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