Mapping the Lost Highway: New Perspectives on David Lynch (TATE Modern Event)

Image from Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)

Film Studies For Free has taken the trouble to gather together in one (hopefully) very easily navigable setting the twelve videos (embedded below) that recorded for posterity a really excellent symposium that took place last year on October 30 2009 at London's Tate Modern. The symposium provided a space in which artists and film theorists insightfully discussed the work of filmmaker David Lynch in a range of theoretical and artistic contexts, including psychoanalysis, philosophy, prosthetics and photography.

One of cinema’s most compelling and innovative directors, David Lynch remains a major influence on contemporary art, film and culture. In this landmark event, Tate Modern [brought] together leading artists, academics and writers from around the world to offer a series of new perspectives on Lynch’s films.

[...] Speakers [included] the visual artists Gregory Crewdson, Daria Martin, and Jane and Louise Wilson, and there [were also] contributions from the writers and academics Parveen Adams, Sarah Churchwell, Simon Critchley, Roger Luckhurst, Tom McCarthy, and Jamieson Webster. A specially commissioned video interview with Lynch himself [was] screened, and an accompanying film programme [took] place at Tate Modern and the Birkbeck Cinema. 

PART 1: Marko Daniel: Welcome; Richard Martin: Introduction

PART 2: The Body: Roger Luckhurst

PART 3: The Body: Tom McCarthy

PART 4: The Body: Q+A (chaired by Marko Daniel)

PART 5: The Eye 1: Gregory Crewdson

PART 6: The Eye 1: Q+A (chaired by Sarah Churchwell)

PART 7: The Eye 2: Daria Martin

PART 8: The Eye 2: Louise Wilson

PART 9: The Eye 2: Q+A (chaired by Stuart Comer)

PART 10: The Mind: Parveen Adams

PART 11: The Mind: Q+A (chaired by Richard Martin)

PART 12: The Ear: Chris Rodley responds to the day's presentations in conversation with Sarah Churchwell. Followed by a Q+A with the symposium's speakers and the public

Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology at the Cinema

Soundtrack CD design for Hombre mirando al sudeste/Man Facing Southeast (Eliseo Subiela, Argentina, 1986 - also see HERE)

Film Studies For Free was suitably inspired (not to say, 'psyched'...) -- by an engaging series of articles by Simon Augustine, M.Div. (hosted by GreenCine Daily: parts 1, 2, 3, & 4) on the representation of mental illness in American cinema -- to draw up its own, proper, live-links list to openly-accessible work on cinematic representations of psychiatry, psychoanalysis and mental illness.

This particular search really did turn up some wonderful resources and will hopefully be of interest not only to some of us film-studies folk, but also to anyone approaching this topic from the increasingly 'film-curious' field of mental-health care.

Written studies:

• Donald L Carveth, 'The Borderline Dilemma in Paris, Texas: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Sam Shepard', PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 971001, December 8, 1997
• Donald L Carveth, 'Dead End Kids: Projective Identification and Sacrifice in Orphans', PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 980223. June 26, 1998
• Donald Carveth and Naomi Gold, 'The Pre-Oedipalizing of Klein in (North) America: Ridley Scott's AlienRe-analyzed', PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 990925. November 2, 1999
• Rina Dudai, 'Coping with Holocaust Trauma in Zipi Reibenbach’s Choice and Destiny, PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 030902, January 29, 2003
• Tanfer Emin-Tunc and Nichole Prescott, 'Glen or Glenda: Psychiatry, Sexuality, and the Silver Screen,' Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 41, August 2003 (Also see all other Bright Lights Film Journal 'Tranny Cinema' articles)
• Glen O. Gabbard, 'The Cinematic Psychiatrist', Psychiatric Times. Vol. 16 No. 7, July 1, 1999
• Glen O. Gabbard, 'Prevention of Boundary Violations: The Role of Education, Self-Monitoring, and Consultation', Psychiatric Times. Vol. 25 No. 4, April 1, 2008
• Krin Gabbard, 'The Circulation of Sado-Masochistic Desire in the Lolita Texts', PsyArt: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 970502. August 25, 1997
• Harvey Roy Greenberg, 'Dysthymic Dicks: On the Melancholic Shamus, from Dupin to Cracker', PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, article 980619. April 30, 1998
• Harvey Roy Greenberg, 'Heimlich Maneuvers: On a Certain Tendency of Horror and Speculative Cinema,' PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Article 010327. October 1, 2001
• Harvey Roy Greenberg, 'Mental Illness on the Screen', Psychiatric Times. Vol. 24 No. 8, July 1, 2007
• Peter Haddad, 'Psychiatry and the Media: The "evil" psychiatrist and modern cinema', Psychiatric Bulletin (1991), 15, 652-653
• Coral Houtman, 'Cultural Androgyny and Gendered Authorship in Don’t Look Now,' PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. April 25, 2009
• Douglas H. Ingram, "Of Time, Narrative, and Cast Away,' PSYART: A Hyperlink Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts. Article 010327. October 1, 2001
• Arline Kaplan, 'Mental Illness on the Screen: No More Snake Pit', Psychiatric Times. Vol. 24 No. 4, April 1, 2007
• Brendan D Kelly, 'Psychiatry in contemporary Irish cinema: a qualitative study', Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2006, 23(2), 74-79
• Lisa Lopez Levers, 'Representations Of Psychiatric Disability In Fifty Years Of Hollywood Film: An Ethnographic Content Analysis', Theory & Science, Issue 2, Fall (2001)
• Robert M Peaslee, '“With great power comes great responsibility”: Central psychoanalytic motifs in Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2,' PSYART: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts, Article 050720, Jul. 20, 2005
• Physical and Mental Disability in the Movies and Television: A Bibliography of Books and Articles in the UC Berkeley Libraries
• Psychiatric Times Editorial: 'Psychiatry and Mental Illness: Are They Mass Media Targets?', Psychiatric Times. Vol. 15 No. 3, March 1, 1998
• Arnold D Richards, 'Review of Psychiatry and the Cinema By Krin Gabbard and Glen O. Gabbard. (Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1989)', Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 42:261-264 (1994)
• Alan Sanders, 'University of Chicago bibliography on psychiatry in cinema', April 26, 2000
• Garry Walter and Andrew McDonald, 'About To Have ECT? Fine, but Don't Watch It in the Movies: The Sorry Portrayal of ECT in Film', Psychiatric Times. Vol. 21 No. 7, June 1, 2004
  

Video resources:

• Secrets of a Soul: A History of Psychoanalysis and Cinema - Roundtable discussion with Harvey Roy Greenberg, George Makari, Brigitte Peucker, Dana Polan, and Daphne Merki (1hr15), Philoctetes Center
• From Looking to Voyeurism - Roundtable discussion with Mary Ann Doane, Katherine Frank, Dany Nobus, Saul Robbins, and Sarah Stanbury (1hr59), Philoctetes Center
• Caché - Roundtable discussion of Michael Haneke's film with Roy Grundman, Edward Nersessian, Brigitte Peucker, Brian Price, and Garrett Stewart (1hr25), Philoctetes Center
• Crazy Love: Who's Tormenting Whom? - Roundtable discussion about the film "Crazy Love," featuring the film's director Dan Klores and panelists Glen Gabbard, Adrienne Harris, Eric Marcus, Daphne Merkin, and Michael Miller (1hr30), Philoctetes Center.
• Philoctetes Center: The Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination YouTube Channel
  

Further, written, cinema-related resources for mental health practitioners:

• Dinesh Bhugra, 'Teaching psychiatry through cinema', Psychiatric Bulletin (2003) 27: 429-430
• Dinesh Bhugra, 'Using film and literature for cultural competence training', Psychiatric Bulletin (2003) 27: 427-428
• Peter Byrne, 'Commentary (on Bhugra: Using film and literature for cultural competence training and Teaching through cinema)', Psychiatric Bulletin (2003) 27: 431-432
• Brooke J Cannon, Psychmovies.com
• Cinematherapy.com (Birgit Wolz)
• Dr Ben Green, 'Psychiatry in the Cinema; Schizophrenia; Affective Disorder; Organic Disorder; Personality Disorder; Neurotic Disorder; The Psychiatric System Learning; Disability; Child Psychiatry; Negative Images of Patients; Negative images of Psychiatry' from Psychiatry On Line, Priory.com, March 2007
• William Little, 'Mental health stereotypes in the movies crueler than ever, new report claims', Time to Change" Let's End Mental Health Discrimination, August 17, 2009
• 'Cinema and Mental Health - bibliography and links', Mental Health in Higher Education, 2008-9
• Donald A. Misch, M.D., 'Psychosocial Formulation Training Using Commercial Films', Academic Psychiatry, 24:2, Summer 2000
• Femi Oyebode, 'Commentary (on Bhugra: Using film and literature for cultural competence training)', Psychiatric Bulletin (2003) 27: 433