Demons of the Mind

Tim Snelson is an Associate Professor in Media History at the University of East Anglia. His research addressing the relationship between media and social history has been published in journals including Media History, History of Human Sciences, Cultural Studies and The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. He has explored wartime cycles of psychological horror and crime films in a book titled Phantom Ladies: Hollywood Horror and the Home Front (2015).https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8282-2432 William R. Macauley is a Lecturer at the University of Manchester and Senior Research Associate at the Science Museum, London. He has an academic background and extensive research experience in psychology and the history of science, technology, and medicine. His work has been published in scholarly books and journals including History of the Human Sciences, Journal of British Cinema and Television, History of Technology, and the Journal of Sonic Studies.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1748-9610 David A. Kirby is Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Liberal Arts and Professor in Science and Technology Studies at Calfornia Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. His research examines how movies, television, and computer games act as vehicles of scientific communication. He has explored the collaboration between scientists and the entertainment industry in his book Lab Coats in Hollywood: Science, Scientists and Cinema (2013). He is currently writing a book titled Indecent Science: Religion, Science, and Movie Censorship, which will explore how movies served as a battleground over science’s role in influencing morality.https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8872-1237

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Psychiatry, cinema and the long 1960s1. Morally acceptable madness: psychiatry, Catholics and censorship at the Legion of Decency2. The BBFC’s ‘psychiatrist friends’: psychiatric consultation and the British censors3. Freud goes to Hollywood: translating psychoanalysis to cinema4. Mad housewives and women’s liberation: the psychiatric reinvention of the ‘woman’s film’5. Radical collaborations: ‘anti-psychiatry’ on-screen6. Aetiology of a murder: forensic psychiatry and the evolution of true crimeConclusion: aftershocksNotesIndex

An astute and thoughtful book, Demons of the Mind opens up the multiple ways in which sciences such as psychology and psychiatry interacted and intersected with the production, censorship and reception of film during the 1960s. The authors deftly keep cinema and science in dialogue, providing an insightful and important account of the different voices and interests at stake in representing and treating mental illness.