Should you watch Crazy, Not Insane?
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Crazy, Not Insane
Documentary · 2020
Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.
The sides of Crazy, Not Insane
- A psychiatrist who interviewed killers
- Taped interviews with Ted Bundy
- Childhood abuse and split personalities
Crazy, Not Insane is good for you if…
- you like a real psychiatrist's decades of case files.
- you like a portrait of Dorothy Otnow Lewis standing firm against her own field.
- you want to understand what made a killer, not just what he did.
Crazy, Not Insane is bad for you if…
- you can't sit through child abuse recounted in detail.
- you need a theory that the whole field accepts.
About: trauma · violence · the mind
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