The early autumn afternoon
makes for the perfect time for films and hot drinks. I wondered how I might
have missed Side Effects.
It was released almost a year ago.
Side Effects is a psychological thriller
directed by Steven Soderbergh and co-produced by real-life forensic
psychiatrist, Dr. Sasha Bardey. Isn’t interesting how the stories elicited
through the everyday practice of Psychiatry makes
for a life much much stranger fiction.
The stories we hear behind closed doors;
the experience of transference and counter-transference; the complex dynamics
driving thoughts, feelings and behaviors in individuals and systems. The
popularity of these films helps us escape, perhaps our own personal Psychiatry, and into the world of others – lives bared
open by the voyeurism only Hollywood can ply open.
The relationship between psychiatrists and their patients, the
law as well as the pharmaceuticals that connect the dots is intriguing.
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