February 11, 2000
Therapy's 'Talking Cure' Still Works -- in Hollywood
In the real world, managed care's hasty dispensing of mood-altering drugs has largely supplanted the nuances of psychotherapy. But in movies and TV, psychiatry in its chattier, more-traditional mode is thriving. For reasons having as much to do with plot structure as personality structure, old-fashioned talking cures still endure in Hollywood at the beginning of the new millennium. You'll find them in movies such as Girl, Interrupted, now emoting at a theater near
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