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The psychiatrist, the patient, their relationship and the movies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jacqueline M. Atkinson
Jacqueline M. Atkinson*
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University of Glasgow, Department of Public Health, 2 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ Atkinson
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Diagnosing a man who has travelled back from the future and who, in the present, speaks of the future as the past causes no problems: paranoid schizophrenia. Thus is Bruce Willis misunderstood in Twelve Monkeys (1995). Neither this, nor Brad Pitt as a patient with schizophrenia should distract us; once more we have a film in which a psychiatrist develops a dubious relationship with a patient. Despite evidence of the destructive impact on patients (Russell, 1993; Jehu, 1994), in films it has become almost normal.

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Psychiatry and the Media
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , June 1997 , pp. 369 - 370
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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