Vintage Psychology Films 2DVDs

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Vintage Psychology Films 2DVDs

This 2-DVD set features 2 1/2 hours of vintage psychology movies!

Included Films:

Broken Appointment

Produced: 1955

Length: 30 Minutes

This is a well-made, touching film about a woman new to the practice of nursing who begins to understand how important a role psychology plays in here day-to-day work life

Bored? Filling time at work by shopping at Amazon? It could be that you are suffering from serious boredom issues that affect not only your work performance but, your home life and happiness. The Empty Life, is an attempt to show the dangers of boredom and its probable causes through the eyes of Hugh, a 1950s everyman. Hugh left the oilfields, a job he enjoyed, at the insistence of his wife and finds himself more and more bored, not just at work but with friends and family. He has no outlet, nothing to create joy. He is losing opportunities and is causing serious issues with his son, who feels neglected. Seemingly more a study of chronic depression rather than boredom the film is appalling with shoddy psychiatric work and wonderful in the bitter realism of a man who has given up on himself. A whole study explores the reasons he has resigned to a nagging wife and an unfulfilling job including a Freudian look at his childhood issues with his mother. The answer the film suggests is getting a healthy hobby that fires your imagination before you end up like one character, a housewife named Ann, drunk and pitiful. Dated in the understanding of mental health issues this is an excellent glimpse into a time when mental issues were blamed on a faulty thyroid and suppression and conformity was not addressed at all.

Face in the Mirror

Produced: 1940

Length: 26 Minutes

Academy award winner, for his role in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, James Dunn carries the weight of this Jam Handy Production about being a good salesperson. A vocational film about what it takes to sell productively, and how to sell to people without them feeling like they are being pressured, Ed (Dunn) goes on a major shopping spree via his wifes instructions. During his venture from store to store he learns more about selling, seeing ways that are better and worse than his own techniques of selling to the public. We learn selling effectively is not just about sweet talking the customer but is about treating them like they are a friend, about looking well dressed and groomed, and above all showing respect. Man in the Mirror, takes Eds character through a sort of reformation of selling ideals as he witnesses what to do and what not to do. This is a well acted and informative film that resounds today in a retail world that is increasingly about self service and less about the salesman.

Photographic Studies in Hypnosis

Produced: 1940s

Length: 10 Minutes

This is an older silent film showing a woman getting hypnotized.

Point of Return

Produced: 1965

Length: 23 Minutes

Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death worldwide. It is a serious issue that often bespeaks serious underlying psychological issues such as depression and schizophrenia or can be because of emotional or financial woes. Suicide was thought of differently in the 1960s but, Point of No Return, makes a valiant effort to explain why a person would feel suicide was an acceptable way of dealing with stress or other emotions. A man who has just been separated from his wife feels like he is a burden on his parents, on the world. He feels purposeless so he tries to kill himself. Afterwards a group of doctors at a roundtable discussion about possible rehabilitation and emotional healing techniques that could help him and prevent such an act again.