[Commlist] New book - Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s

*Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s*

Tim Snelson, William Macauley, David Allen Kirby

In the 1960s, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals 
intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, 
changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and 
received by audiences.

Drawing upon extensive archival research, /Demons of the Mind/ provides 
the first interdisciplinary account of the complex contestations and 
cross-pollinations of the ‘psy’ sciences (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, 
psychology) and cinema in Britain and America during the defining ‘long 
1960s’ period of the late-1950s to early-1970s.

This interdisciplinary book incorporates expertise from film studies, 
history of science and medicine, and science communication. The 
originality of this book is not solely its interdisciplinarity and 
exploration beyond the narrow study of representational practices – 
typically the primary focus of other books on cinema and the psy 
professions. In large part, this book’s originality rests on its 
investigation of situated practices and interplay between ideas, 
expertise and professionals that constitute the fields of mental health 
and media.

‘/An astute and thoughtful book, /Demons of the Mind/opens up the 
multiple ways in which sciences such as psychology and psychiatry 
interacted and intersected with the production, censorship and reception 
of film during the 1960s. The authors deftly keep cinema and science in 
dialogue, providing an insightful and important account of the different 
voices and interests at stake in representing and treating mental 
illness’/ – Yvonne Tasker, University of Leeds.

If you like the look of this book, please ask your library to order it.

More info and to order: 
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-demons-of-the-mind.html


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