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The Feeling of Rejection
194720 min 32 secFilm: Fiction
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.
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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