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From Hollywood to Heroin at the ICA

A series of screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London hopes to use psychoanalysis to look at the depiction of drug addiction in film.

Frank Sinatra's role as a heroin addict in The Man with the Golden Arm, and Leonardo DiCaprio's portrayal as a teenage drug addict in The Basketball Diaries, are the first two films in a series of four screenings, organised by the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

The films will be followed by presentations from psychiatric experts, and a question and answer session. Matters for discussion include, how the characters got involved in drugs, how society and the media respond to addiction, and how it affects work, relationships and home life.

The first ICA screening is on 18 January,  for more information please visit psychoanalysis.org.uk/cinema.htm

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