Mf Through Vertigo Analysis

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In the course of the film we find Scottie going through self-therapy, a fashionable tendency of the 1940s psychoanalytic boom & later through music therapy which was also briefly popular during the 1950s (largely as a means of calming unruly patients in mental institutions. And Midge presented it as slightly comical. -She says “They have music for dipsomaniacs, music for melancholiacs, music for hypochondriacs. I wonder what would happen if someone got their files mixed up” (qtd from the film/qtd in Freedman 89). MF- Through Vertigo-we can come to the conclusion that neither music therapy nor any other forms of therapy can completely cure the mentally ill and it is basically disjunct from physical illness where neither diagnosis or cure