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Psychiatry on Film
• GIs coming back from the war had all kinds of mental challenges, that had never been addressed by previous generations.
• Alcoholism, depression and PTSD were major issues, and the medical community was trying pharmaceuticals for treatment.
• Medical advancements provided alternate methodologies, but many of these were seen suspiciously by the public. Although hydrotherapy, metrazol convulsion, and insulin shock therapy were popular in the 1930s, these methods gave way to psychotherapy in the 1940s. By the 1950s, doctors favored artificial fever therapy and electroshock therapy.
• Three Faces of Eve, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anastasia, Shadow on the Wall , Harvey and others.