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Movies can be therapeutic, sometimes even cathartic. Like the great plays, they can foster enlightenment when they “hold the mirror to nature” and highlight some aspect of the human condition. In appreciation of this fact, we have started our own film studio called Living Center Films. Please check out our website at:

www.livingcenterfilms.com

We also recommend the following movies as adjuncts to psychotherapy:

East of Eden (director: Kazan). A "good" and a "bad" son identify with their "good" father and "bad" mother.

Ordinary People (director: Redford). The impact of psychotherapy on a suicidal teen and his dysfunctional family.

A Streetcar Named Desire (director: Kazan). A phallic-narcissistic male and a histrionic female clash, with tragic

consequences.

Taxi Driver (director: Scorsese). The slow descent into madness of a young man with paranoid delusions.

La Strada (director: Fellini). The tragic relationship between an abusive man and his retarded wife.

Gaslight (director: Cukor). A husband drives his wife insane by doing things to her and denying what he is doing.

The term “gaslighting” originated with this movie.

Hamlet (director: Zefferelli). A young prince discovers that his stepfather murdered his father, married his mother,

and took over as King of Denmark, leading to his descent into depression and madness and a tragic end.

Lilith (director: Rossen). A beautiful schizophrenic patient drives a new therapist crazy.

Sophie’s Choice (director: Pakula). A tragic romance between a manic-depressive and a depressive.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (director: Forman). A man fakes insanity and is sent to a mental hospital,

where he stirs the patients to revolt.

The Deer Hunter (director: Cimino). The effect of Vietnam War experiences on several men. A brilliant depiction

of Freud’s repetition compulsion.

Wicked (director: Steinberg). A teenager with an Electra complex kills her mother and wants to marry her father.

Suddenly Last Summer (director: Mankiewicz). A young woman suffers from a breakdown after a strange

relationship with a homosexual man and his possessive mother.

Eyes Wide Shut (director: Kubrick). A man's obsession with a mysterious sexual underworld affects his marriage.

Fatal Attraction (director: Lyne). A man's affair with a narcissistic woman almost destroys his marriage.

Punch Drunk Love (director: Anderson) A young man who has seven enraging older sisters has trouble in his

relationships with women.

The Secretary (director: Shainberg). A secretary with a borderline personality goes to work for a boss who has

strange sexual ideas.

Thirteen (director: Hardwicke). An intense study of the psychological dynamics of an out of control thirteen year old and weak-willed mother.

Through a Glass Darkly (director: Bergman) a father and his children go away to an island, where his daughter’s incestuous feelings bring about a schizophrenic breakdown.

Long Day’s Journey into Night (director: Lumet). O’Neill’s portrait of a dysfunctional family dealing with a mother’s addiction to morphine.

Murmur of the Heart (director: Malle). A youngest son in a dysfunctional French family comes of age through an incestuous relationship with his mother.

The Silence (director: Bergman). A psychological portrait of a woman, her eight-year-old son, and her dying sister in an eerie hotel in Sweden.

Click the arrow in the screen below to watch the first 10 minutes of THERAPY, a full-length feature written and directed by Gerald Schoenewolf. Click the botton on the lower right to download the movie. .

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