The recent spate of films about poor and confused shrinks--who usually end up sleeping with their patients--suggests a sort of sub-genre of the "scientist film". From *The Snake Pit* to *Man Facing Southeast*, *Final Analysis*, and *Silence of the Lambs*, the psychiatrist who is a bit touched by his work is often representative of the power of science itself, such films often suggesting that irrationality and passion are instead a key. Kathleen Ely