{"product_id":"couching-resistance-women-film-and-psychoanalytic-psychiatry","title":"Couching Resistance: Women, Film, and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry","description":"In Couching Resistance, Janet Walker examines professional and popular literature published between World War II and the mid-1960’s to develop a picture of psychiatry’s ambivalent response to women patients. This ambivalence, Walker argues, is also evident in the profusion of Hollywood films form the same period on the subject of psychiatry and women. Even though in many cases men and women made up an equal number of patients, medical and fictional psychiatry often relied on the adjustment of “deviant” women in order to present their respective solutions.\n\nWalker reveals a self-critical strain in psychiatry that attacked the profession’s authoritarianism. Over the time period in question she sees an increasing willingness on the part of Hollywood cinema to deal with volatile issues, including childhood sexual trauma and the social origins of female mental illness. These issues were coming up, Walker says, in the emergent feminist critique of conformist psychiatry.\n\nWalker brilliantly explores how psychoanalytic psychiatry and Hollywood cinema negotiated women’s psychosexuality and life experience during the mid-twentieth century. Ultimately, her reading of films including The Snake Pit, The Three Faces of Eve, Lilith, and Freud, in conjunction with such cultural representations as marriage manuals, pharmaceutical ads, and letters from psychiatrists to motion-picture personnel, responds to the challenge to understand film in its wider cultural context.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0816622337\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0816622337.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Walker, Janet\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43747627663421,"sku":"BVV.0816622337.G","price":13.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0816622337-0.jpg?v=1790892031","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/couching-resistance-women-film-and-psychoanalytic-psychiatry","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}