State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY 10025
 
                                            Krin Gabbard
                                            Associate Professor
                                            Comparative Literature
                                            212 749-1631
                                            29-Sep-1994 05:47pm EDT
FROM:  KGABBARD
TO:    Remote Addressee                     ( [log in to unmask] )
 
Subject: Client-therapist interactions
 
Dear Naomi,
 
        Virtually all of the films listed in the various messages so far, at
least the ones before 1986, are discussed, often at length, in my book,
_Psychiatry and the Cinema_ (University of Chicago Press, 1987).  I wrote the
book with my brother, Glen O. Gabbard, a practicing psychoanalyst.  We tried to
look at the material both as Hollywood product and as representations of the
actual transferential and countertransferential relationships in therapy.  For
a more recent, feminist reading of some of the same films, take a look at Janet
Walker, _Couching Resistance_ (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993).
 
        With the intention of some day updating _Psychiatry and the Cinema_, I
have been keeping a file of films with some kind of mental health professional
since the book went to press.  I'll be happy to share it with you, but I leave
day after tomorrow for Italy, and I'll be gone for 3 weeks.  I'm just about to
set Screen-L for "nomail."  If you can wait that long, ring me when you get
back, and I'll be happy to help you out.
 
        Therapeutically yours,
 
        Krin Gabbard
        SUNY Stony Brook
        (212) 749-1631