The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

READINGS


 
 
 
 
  1. What are some of the reasons you have found in your readings why the public goes back and forth between seeing mental health professionals in positive and negative ways? 








  2. What connections are there between the history of this country and the portrayals of psychiatry by film makers that would lead to these different portrayals? 







  3. Looking back over your readings and the films you have seen, give examples of the stereotypes of mental health professionals you have encountered. 







  4. Can you think of ways in which psychotherapy and psychotherapists could be portrayed more realistically and still hold an audience's interest & attention? 







CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
 


 
  1. How does the film suggest that the whole story is the hallucinations & delusions of a "madman" (look at shape, color, angles, makeup on the actors, settings)? 



















  2. What is the picture of Dr. Caligari in the main part of the film & in the final scenes?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

SECRETS OF A SOUL
 
 

  1. What is the patient's real problem? 













  2. How can you tell this was supervised by 2 famous students of Freud? 














  3. How was this both similar & different from "Mine Own Executioner"