The Feeling of Rejection

194720 min 32 secFilm: Fiction

G

Direction: Robert Anderson

Production: Robert AndersonEvelyn Cherry

Script: Bruce Ruddick

Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of National Health and Welfare.

The case history of Margaret, a 23-year-old girl who has physical disorders with no physical causes. A psychiatrist shows her the root of her troubles--childhood overprotection and discouragement of her efforts to express herself, resulting in a crippling fear of failure and a complete inability to assert herself. When Margaret understands her problem, she develops new and healthier habits of behaviour.

Other versions


Subject categories


  • Psychology and Psychiatry > Counselling and TherapyMental Illness and DisabilitiesWomen
  • Women > Health and Illness
  • Families > Mental HealthWomen

Credits


director
Robert Anderson
producer
Robert Anderson
Evelyn Cherry
script
Bruce Ruddick
photography
Denis Gillson
sound
Joseph Champagne
editing
Victor Jobin
music
Robert Fleming
cast
Wanda Allen
J.D. Macbeth
Helen Smith
Robin Taylor

Awards


  • Certificate of Honour - Category: Film Production in GeneralInternational Review of Specialized Cinematography
  • Outstanding Film - category: BiologyFilms of the World Festival
  • Plaque of MeritPhilippines Film Festival on Mental Health