Category: Movie Reviews
The Good Therapy Blog
February 14th, 2011 |
An interview with actress Jodie Foster is the cover story for the Winter 2011 issue of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s publication Advocate. In the interview, Foster speaks about filming the upcoming movie The Beaver, in which she plays the wife of a man (Mel Gibson) suffering from serious depression. Depression isn’t just feeling blue now and then. The movie vividly portrays how Gibson’s character and his entire family struggle to endure... Read More
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February 9th, 2011 |
Recently, I saw the movie The King’s Speech. A touching, powerful example of how politics and psychology are woven together! It’s also a beautiful portrayal of the hard work and the full commitment it takes in a healing venture – on both sides, that of the therapist and that of the client.
I don’t want to give anything in the movie away…and I don’t need to in order to offer what I have to say. The essence: the Duke of York, later King George VI, stammers; in order to fulfill his job, his potential, and his destiny, he needs the help of a speech therapist. The therapist knows you... Read More
December 29th, 2010 |
The personal lives of Hollywood movie stars can be hard to relate to; this is an understatement. But the movies they make are full of complex characters that, while larger than life, embody psychological patterns that many of us can recognize in our own lives. Psychcentral.com is adding a new blog to its site in order to explore these connections: Movies and Mental Health will be written by Joseph Burgo, Ph.D., a film enthusiast and mental health advocate. These posts won’t simply dissect individual characters as those though the viewer... Read More
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July 30th, 2010 |
I’m pondering on what the meaning of love is - and how we think of it as a society. This past week, I watched two movies that were designed to get us thinking about love, from two different generations. Moonstruck and Valentine’s Day were created more than twenty years apart, yet still have the same message - your life is simply better when you are in a meaningful, passionate love relationship with a partner. True Love is the goal - all consuming, never ending, absolute in its context. In both movies, the viewer is left with the idea that without love, life is a series of grays in a world of... Read More
July 21st, 2010 |
A new film playing on PBS stations nationwide documents a group of parents who took to the streets—literally—in the 1970s to fight misinformation about schizophrenia. “When Medicine Got it Wrong,” by Katie Cadigan and Laura Murray, explores the then-widespread belief that schizophrenia in children was caused by the parents. Tired of being blamed for what they knew was a real disease, a small group of parents raised their voices to politicians and even the World Congress of Psychiatry. It wasn’t until the 1990s that the term... Read More
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June 29th, 2010 |
All this week, the National Alliance on Mental Illness will be meeting in Washington, D.C. for its national convention. In addition to plenty of presentations, exhibits, and meetings, attendees will have the opportunity to screen the film “Unlisted: A Story of Schizophrenia.” This award-winning documentary follows the relationship between Delaney Ruston, a filmmaker and physician, and her father, a writer who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. At times estranged, the two came together when Ruston re-established the relationship... Read More
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July 27th, 2009 |
A GoodTherapy.org News Update
A recent exploration in the New York Times covers the standing of the on-screen psychotherapist, a classic role that seems to have been deteriorating for quite a while, despite a surge of interest in and use of therapeutic services. From illustrious beginnings depicting therapists as highly educated and insightful characters to modern representations that seem to delight in tearing down the credibility... Read More
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March 4th, 2009 |
Today I saw the movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It was a deeply moving film. I recommend it highly. And I also wish for you that you allow it to open your heart to yourself and others in a new way.
Benjamin (as you can read anywhere on the internet - so I’m not giving anything away) is born old and gets younger and younger through his life and the movie. You journey with him as he goes through the pains and joys, sorrows and comforts of life.
Again, without giving the movie away, I want to offer what moved me most . . .
That we witness, in reverse, Benjamin’s experience in... Read More
