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Mental Images: Psychoanalysis on the Screen - New York Times

There are plenty of popular films that are less flattering to the profession. Those betes noires include "Cat People" (1942), in which the doctor doesn't believe his female patient really turns into a cat during love-making, but tries to cure her delusion by seducing her; "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975), in which only the patients are normal, and "Dressed to Kill" (1980). In the last, the psychiatrist turns out to be a homicidal transvestite, "the first homicidal transvestite psychiatrist in American cinema," said Professor Gabbard.