Abstract
ARE PSYCHIATRISTS magicians, opportunists, soul doctors, capable therapists, villains, stupid, selfish fools, clever, unfeeling scientists, or perhaps complex unhappy individuals capable of curing others but not of solving their own problems? Yes, all of these and more, if we accept the portrayals in 20th-century fiction. Certainly, while real psychiatrists vary in personality and in their image of their own role, it is doubtful that they cover quite so wide a range of character as their fictional counterparts. In the past 40 years psychiatrists have often appeared in novels, plays, and short stories and it is apparent that the authors vary greatly in their opinion of these doctors. <h3>Villains</h3> Graham Greene, in<i>The Ministry of Fear</i>(1943), describes a Dr. Forester who apparently started as an idealist, an admirer of Tolstoi. As a pacifist, he associated with groups opposed to the government and then gradually became involved in complex plotting and
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