This is such a ridiculous movie.I want to like it, but it is so out there. We now know that many things that we saw as psychological problems are due to the brain and neurology determined waAy before birth. Schizophrenia, autism,add, bipolar disorder etc etc. So this feels like one of those stories where people would catch colds by being chilly. But you can't ignore it. It's so weird!
shareI think that when watching old movies, you have to take in the audience at that time. We're not talking about sophisticated or knowledgable people in general. Not any where close to today's audience where even 5 year olds and 70 year olds are on the internet reading the news.
So I don't take any of the psychobabble seriously. It's at best pop psychology from 60+ years ago.
No one cares what you think retard
sharePsychoanalysis in the case of this film takes sometimes only a few MINUTES to cure a patient, it is all about going back to the first trauma and make peace with it, it can happen immediately when that trauma gets healed. It depends fully on the patient how efficient they are in their forgiveness for themselves and closing the cycle. I'm speaking from experience, it comes back to traditional healing procedures like shadow work which a lot of people do on their own. Once the trauma is identified, you're halfway done, some people have to repeat the practice a couple of times, some do it immediately through self hypnosis as well. PTSD gets cured the same way, hours, days, weeks, years, it all depends on severity. Obviously in this film it was very realistic, cause it was all about discovery and identifying, it was not necessary to show how severe it was in the film, or how much he later on needed to go back to the past of the trauma and repeat the procedure. It served the plot.
sharePsychoanalysis was the norm in movies and TV through the 60s. Back in 45 there was no DSM.
Here's a description of the first. https://www.psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm/history-of-the-dsm
The APA Committee on Nomenclature and Statistics developed a variant of the ICD–6 that was published in 1952 as the first edition of DSM. DSM contained a glossary of descriptions of the diagnostic categories and was the first official manual of mental disorders to focus on clinical use. The use of the term “reaction” throughout DSM reflected the influence of Adolf Meyer’s psychobiological view that mental disorders represented reactions of the personality to psychological, social, and biological factors.