Great Movies About Mental Illness

Suddenly Last summer is a terrific entry in the Psychiatrist as hider of family disorders.in this case Montgomery Clift , as tge shrink , is resisting all efforts by the family, represented by Katharine Hepburn, to erase Elizabeth Taylor and her memories before she can tell what she knows about the death of Hepburn’s fragile poet son,Sebastian. First I always think Clift would have been perfect as Sebastian, who never appears on screen. It always muddles my thoughts about this film. Second I wonder if the story of Rosemary Kennedy was known when this was made. Both Williams sister Rose, and Rosemary Kennedy suffered a lobotomy as treatment for mental illness. Kennedy biographers have suggested that the lobotomy was an attractive choice of treatment because it promised that Rosemary would become docile and not create disruptions.