Let there be light : psychiatry in WWII.

Date:
1946
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About this work

Description

Filmed over 3 months at New York's Mason Hospital, this film documents an intensive series of psychotherpeutic treatments for US battle casualties suffering from an array of psychoneurotic disorders. Individual psychiatric interviews are shown. We see the successful treatment of a patient suffering from hysterical conversion disorder following an injection of sodium amytal. The same treatment is demonstrated with a man who has developed a severe stutter. A group psychotherapy session is included as is treatment by hypnosis on a patient who has lost the ability to remember any of his wartime experiences. We follow the patients as their treatment is completed and they are re-united with their loved ones.

Publication/Creation

US, 1946.

Physical description

1 DVD (58 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL

Notes

This film was featured in the Wellcome Trust exhibition 'War and Medicine', 22 November 2008 - 15 February 2009.

Creator/production credits

Directed by John Huston. Narrated by Walter Huston.

Copyright note

Traditions Military Videos

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