Psychiatry and the Films

themselves with psychiatry. It is irrelevant to view this as good or bad, since it has been inevitable. Over the years, as art and literature gradually turned away from the presentation of history, mythology, and religion, and from moral and spiritual exhortation, they became techniques by which the artist attempted to voice his own life, his own personality. Sophistication soon led him from the obvious to the obscure, until presently he found himself struggling to express the more chaotic aspects of his personality, to wit, that in him which was neurotic. This trend