Zutphen,23.11.2017 Based on a true story? ECT in international movies andTV programs pascal sienaert AcCENTAcademic Centrum voor ECT en neuromodulatie upc ku leuven,campus kortenberg
[email protected] Methods . • • allmovie.com • subzin.com,phrases in movies & series • PubMed • (inter)national ECT-practitioners Results 60 MOVIES 85 25 SERIES 8 2 52 MOVIES 75 23 SERIES 57 SCENES 25 SCENES +3 82 SCENES +4 89 About to have ECT? Fine,but don't watch it in the movies... Walter and McDonald.PsychiatricTimes 2004,21(7) The problem is that ECT lends itself beautifully to cinematic dramatization. Shorter & Healy,2007 ShockTherapy:A history of ElectroconvulsiveTreatment in Mental Illness. Rutgers University Press,New Brunswick,New Jersey,London. a promising (?) start... The Snake Pit Anatole Litvak 1934 1938 1948 ‘Why are you electrocuting me?’ Virginia Cunningham writer psychotic episode written consent by proxy The Snake Pit Anatole Litvak 1948 Template • frantic music • unmodified • violent motor seizure > Olivia de Havilland inThe Snake Pit Anatole Litvak,1948 The Caretakers - Hall Bartlett - 1963 ECT as a metaphor for the repressive disciplinary approach in psychiatry anti-psychiatry La Meglio Gioventu,MarcoTullio Giordana,2003 ’the biggest beast in the celluloid ECT jungle’ McDonald &Walter,2009 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Milos Forman - USA,1975 The Caretakers 1963 Anna, child… 1976 1972 Ciao! Manha; an Shock Treatment T 1964 he FiHh Floor 1978 1974 Caged Heat Shock Corridor …. 1964 Frances 1982 1975 One flew Family Life