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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Snake_PitThe Snake Pit - Wikipedia

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   The Snake Pit is a 1948 American psychological drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Beulah Bondi, and Lee Patrick.

2. www.psychiatrictimes.com › view › into-the-snake-pitInto the Snake Pit: An Interview with Ben Harris, PhD

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   May 13, 2021 · The Snake Pit was an award-winning film that showed the hospitalization and recovery of Virginia Cunningham at an upstate New York psychiatric hospital. A confused but resilient young woman, Virginia progressed through various overcrowded, understaffed wards to Ward 1—the best.

3. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › 33956463The Snake Pit: Mixing Marx with Freud in Hollywood - PubMed

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   In 1948, the motion picture The Snake Pit was released to popular and critical acclaim. Directed by Anatole Litvak, the film told of the mental illness and recovery of one patient, who survived overcrowding and understaffing and was treated by a neo-Freudian psychiatrist known as Dr. Kik.

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4. cinema.wisc.edu › blog › 2016/11/30THE SNAKE PIT: Prestige, Paternal Psychoanalysis and ...

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   Nov 30, 2016 · The Snake Pit was based on Mary Jane Ward’s semi-autobiographical novel, which described a woman’s mental breakdown and experiences within a mental institution. While The Snake Pit is often examined within the context of Zanuck’s social problem films, the content of the film correlates more directly with a rising interest in ...

5. www.jstor.org › stable › 2712430The Snake Pit (1948): The Sexist Nature of Sanity - JSTOR

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   The Snake Pit contains an essential paradox. Conceived by its makers and touted by reviewers as an expose of dehumanizing and over-crowded conditions in the nation's mental hospitals, the film, in fact, offers a solution which celebrates the efficacy of psychoanalysis in restoring its heroine to mental health.

6. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › snake_pitThe Snake Pit - Rotten Tomatoes

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   Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert (Mark Stevens), she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik (Leo Genn), who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her...

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7. www.imdb.com › title › tt0040806The Snake Pit (1948) - IMDb

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   The Snake Pit: Directed by Anatole Litvak. With Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm. Virginia Cunningham can't recall how she landed in an asylum. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, marriage, and her developing symptoms.