Alienist

Alienist is an archaic term for a psychiatrist or psychologist. Despite falling out of favor by the middle of the twentieth century, it received renewed attention when used in the title of Caleb Carr's novel The Alienist (1994). Although currently not often used in common parlance, the term "alienist" is still employed in psychiatric hospitals to describe those mental health professionals who evaluate defendants to determine their competency to stand trial.

In popular culture

Film

Director: Irvin V Willat; Photographed by: J.O. Taylor; Art Director: Wilfred Buckland; Starring: Harry Houdini as "Harvey Hanford, D. Cameron's estranged nephew", Thomas Jefferson as "Dudley Cameron, childless eccentric millionaire miser", Ann Forrest as "Mary Wentworth, D. Cameron's ward and heiress"

The film His Girl Friday (1940), [2] uses the term to describe the doctors who interview a convicted cop killer to determine his sanity.

Game

Journalism

Literature

Television

References

  1. Reed, Rex (October 22, 2014). "'Stonehearst Asylum' Is the Best Madhouse Movie Since 'Bedlam'". Observer. Archived from the original on February 17, 2015. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
  2. http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/
  3. Christie, Agatha (1936). The A.B.C. Murders. Penguin Books.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 10/9/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.