{"title":"The Snake Pit: Mixing Marx with Freud in Hollywood.","authors":"Ben Harris","doi":"10.1037/hop0000188","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1948, the motion picture <i>The Snake Pit</i> was released to popular and critical acclaim. Directed by Anatole Litvak, the film told of the mental illness and recovery of one patient, who survived overcrowding and understaffing and was treated by a neo-Freudian psychiatrist known as Dr. Kik. It was based on a novel of the same title by Mary Jane Ward, who had been treated at Rockland State Hospital in New York. Building upon exposés of horrid hospital conditions in the press, <i>The Snake Pit</i> helped motivate reforms in the treatment of the mentally ill. Via unpublished correspondence and drafts of the film's screenplay, this article explores the populist and antifascist themes in <i>The Snake Pit</i>, which came from the director, screenwriters, and the politics of the immediate post-WWII era. It also describes the case history of Mary Jane Ward and her treatment by Gerard Chrzanowski, the real \"Dr. Kik.\" (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).</p>","PeriodicalId":51852,"journal":{"name":"History of Psychology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"History of Psychology","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1037/hop0000188","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2021/4/22 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In 1948, the motion picture The Snake Pit was released to popular and critical acclaim. Directed by Anatole Litvak, the film told of the mental illness and recovery of one patient, who survived overcrowding and understaffing and was treated by a neo-Freudian psychiatrist known as Dr. Kik. It was based on a novel of the same title by Mary Jane Ward, who had been treated at Rockland State Hospital in New York. Building upon exposés of horrid hospital conditions in the press, The Snake Pit helped motivate reforms in the treatment of the mentally ill. Via unpublished correspondence and drafts of the film's screenplay, this article explores the populist and antifascist themes in The Snake Pit, which came from the director, screenwriters, and the politics of the immediate post-WWII era. It also describes the case history of Mary Jane Ward and her treatment by Gerard Chrzanowski, the real "Dr. Kik." (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
1948年，电影《蛇坑》上映，广受好评。这部电影由阿纳托尔·利特瓦克(Anatole Litvak)执导，讲述了一名病人的精神疾病和康复过程，他在人满为患和人手不足的情况下幸存下来，接受了新弗洛伊德精神科医生Kik的治疗。它是根据玛丽·简·沃德(Mary Jane Ward)的同名小说改编的，她曾在纽约罗克兰州立医院接受治疗。基于媒体对医院恶劣条件的揭露，《蛇坑》推动了精神疾病治疗方面的改革。通过未发表的信件和电影剧本草稿，本文探讨了《蛇坑》中的民粹主义和反法西斯主题，这些主题来自导演、编剧和二战后的政治。它还描述了玛丽·简·沃德的病例史，以及真正的“Kik医生”杰拉德·克里扎诺夫斯基对她的治疗。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA，版权所有)。
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History of Psychology features refereed articles addressing all aspects of psychology"s past and of its interrelationship with the many contexts within which it has emerged and has been practiced. It also publishes scholarly work in closely related areas, such as historical psychology (the history of consciousness and behavior), psychohistory, theory in psychology as it pertains to history, historiography, biography and autobiography, and the teaching of the history of psychology.
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