Depicting Mental Illness

Many of our most indelible images of mental illness, from the restless schizophrenics of The Snake Pit (1948) to the conspiratorial hallucinations haunting the mathematician John Nash in A Beautiful Mind (2001), come from film. Over the years, cinematic depictions of mental illness have naturally evolved to reflect real-world changes in diagnosis and treatment. And films, often adaptations of best-selling books, have been at the leading edge of the debate -- advocating Freudian

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