Psychiatry and the Cinema, 2nd ed

From our regular book review column.

Psychiatrists are alive and well in Hollywood cinema. Even since the release of this book, yet another depiction of a psychiatrist, this time by Billy Crystal, treating a mobster played by Robert DeNiro, has appeared in Analyze This, apparently a popular film and box office success to judge by the number of patients who recommended it! What message am I to take from their recommendations? How to treat them, how to treat mobsters?