Shrinks on the verge of a nervous breakdown: how horror movies came for therapists

 

 

"More so than the villainous therapist trope – which suggests our shrinks are out to get us – these newfangled therapists tap into a much greater fear. Since all people are faulty in unique ways and weighed down by their own personal baggage, how equipped can any one therapist be to properly deal with another person’s issues? It is telling that in each of these releases, the real sense of dread sets in when a previously self-possessed therapist loses their cool. While scepticism endures around therapy as an infallible cure to our problems, it’s unsurprising that we are seeing such bewildering anxieties projected on to the screen."

read article by Miriam Balanescu 

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