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THE REPRESENTATION OF MALE, FEMALE, GROUP
PSYCHIATRISTS, IN FILMS
Jean-Gérald VEYRAT, MD
Vice-President Société Française de
Psycho-Pathologie de lExpression
et dArt-Thérapie
ATHENS
15/03/05
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PSYCHIATRISTS IN FILMS

• Increasing frequency of representation, specially
  in USA, UK, France, and Italy
• Sometimes one director makes several films about
  psychiatrists
• Generally patients and therapists are from
  opposite sex
• For the therapist, the result is sometimes good,
  because he or her uses to become different after
  this relationship
• Because he or her discovers some hidden points
  of his or her own personality

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They are
shown Sleeping Answering to a phone call
But giving inappropriate answers Eating,
Cupid Depressed, even committing suicide
Sexually perturbated Committing crimes (
M.P.D.) Under the influence of patients family
MALE PSYCHIATRISTS
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FEMALE PSYCHIATRISTS
They are shown

• Crying with patient
• Not asking for paiement
• But asking to be forgiven
• Moved more by affectivity than by sexuality
• Sometimes she is victim, but even there, she
  learns something about herself (more often than
  male psychiatrists)
• Rare exceptions

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The leader is always a man An allmighty
man Often disturbed by his own problems
And often with unusual methods
GROUP THERAPISTS
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Mortel transfert Theres something about
Mary Safe Le sourire The
chameleon-woman Whats new, Pussicat ?
Dressed to kill Never talk to
strangers Copy cat
Mr Jones Stormy
weather Anger with management The dream
team Traitement de choc
14 examples
MALE PSYCHIATRISTS
FEMALE PSYCHIATRISTS
GROUP THERAPISTS
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CONCLUSIONS
As if  affection, good earing  were
sufficient to be a good therapist As if
scenarists were afraid of homosexual
transference As if  affectivity,
sensitivity  were the main quality of female
psychiatrists although the worst issue is the
bad control of their counter-transference What
about good images of psychiatrists, whatever
their sex, in films? rarely, some images of
psychiatrists for children or some
psychoanalysts among the team in
institutions