The Century of the Self (2002)★ 8.7/10
- Documentary
Directed by: Adam Curtis
Written by: Adam Curtis
A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerful means of persuasion for both governments and corporations.
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Cast & crew
Adam CurtisNarrator
Robert ReichSelf
Ann BernaysSelfAlfred PritzSelf - President World Council for PsychotherapyErzie KarolyiSelfPat JacksonSelf - Public Relations AdviserPeter StraussSelf - Employee of BernaysPeter SolomonSelf - Investment Banker Lehman BrothersStuart EwenSelf - Historian of Public RelationsErnst FedernSelf - Viennese PsychoanalystLeopold LöwenthalSelf - Freudian Psychoanalyst
George Gallup Jr.SelfMarcel FaustSelf - Resident of Vienna 1930's
Celeste HolmSelf
Martin BergmannSelf - Psychoanalyst
E. Howard HuntSelf
Werner ErhardSelfAmina Marie SpenglerSelf
Jesse KornbluthSelf - New Times journalist in the 1970sWilliam CoulsonSelf
Larry TyeSelf - journalist, Boston Globe
Harold P. BlumSelfGeorge LeonardSelfJohn GittingsSelf - CIA chief psychologist 1950-1974Robert PardunSelf - student activist in early 1960sStew AlbertSelf - founding member, Yippie PartyLore ReichSelf - daughter of Wilhelm ReichAlexander LowenSelfDaniel YankelovichSelfFritz GehagenSelfChristine MacNultySelfLaughlin TaylorSelfMorton HerskowitzSelfHeinz LehmannSelfBill SchlackmanSelfRobert WallersteinSelfLeo RangellSelfRenee M. LoveSelfMichael MurphySelf - founder, Esalen InstituteMichael BurlinghamSelfEllen HermanSelfHedy DichterSelfLinda MacDonaldSelfJay OgilvySelfJeffrey BellSelf - speech writer for Ronald Reagan 1976-1981Anton FreudSelfNeil SmelserSelf
Wilhelm ReichSelf (archiveFootage)