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Demons of the MindPsychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s\nAuthor(s): Tim Snelson, William Macauley, David Allen Kirby\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474486422, 978-1474486422\nSynopsis\nIn the 1960s, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by audiences. \nDrawing upon extensive archival research, Demons of the Mind provides the first interdisciplinary account of the complex contestations and cross-pollinations of the psy sciences (psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology) and cinema in Britain and America during the defining long 1960s period of the late-1950s to early-1970s. \nThis interdisciplinary book incorporates expertise from film studies, history of science and medicine, and science communication. The originality of this book is n.