"The Snake Pit" (1948)......click here for my 3rd weblog

Movie poster for "The Snake Pit" (1948) with Olivia De Havilland and Mark Stevens about what goes on inside a State Hospital without actually showing what really goes on inside a State Hospital...If you happen to ever see this film, you will notice that in this film there is a very fictional part whereby the De Havilland charactor is being treated one on one by the ward psychiatrist while all the rest of the patients are being ignored by the ward psychiatrist, but since De Havilland is the star of this picture, she gets special treatment...However, in real life state hospitals, this would never happen...They are merely a place for warehousing, on a grand scale, mental patients and then left to rot and die there if no one on the outside cares about them enough to get them out, or it was one of the patient`s relatives who had them committed in the first place in order to get the patient out of the way...And secondly, there does not exist, in any state hospital, a psychiatrist for each ward as depicted in this movie, but only a regular low grade medical doctor, who could not find work any place else but a state hospital, for each ward, and his main function is to prescribe drugs for the patients to turn them into vegetables and walking zombies (note: The Thorezine Shuffle)...The only psychiatrist you will find in any state hospital would be the hospital administrator himself, and that would be it, and he is definately not there to give a patient one on one therapy...


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