Our first brave responder guessed Now Voyager with Bette Davis. I’m eager to check that one out. But the movie I have in mind came out about a decade earlier…
Keep trying, people. For incentive, I’ll send a free, signed book to the one with the correct answer!
D.B. // Jan 23, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Not sure this qualifies since I’ve never actually seen the movie, but apparently in “Free Love” (1930), one of the characters is told by a psychiatrist that she is an introvert, while her husband is an extrovert.
Can’t actually confirm this since I can’t find a copy of this movie anywhere.
teapot // Jan 24, 2010 at 5:49 pm
Give us a clue?
Laurie // Jan 27, 2010 at 2:24 am
Okay, teapot, you have your clue, because D.B. has the right context and the right decade, but the wrong movie. I will try to check out Free Love too, because if “introvert” is mentioned in this one, D.B. has me trumped (my movie came out after 1930).
sheilareynolds // Apr 21, 2010 at 1:42 pm
As the first recipient of Laurie’s Power of One (Introvert) Award, I was just thinking I want to get back into being conscious of doing things to further healthy outlooks about introversion.
And, then I received Laurie’s email about the American Psychiatric Association adding introversion to its list of personality disorders.
Take a look at a book I read recently. Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Christopher Lane.
This book is not only interesting, but extremely disturbing! It’s about the history of how a small group of people (with tons of personal issues of their own!) reorganized psychiatric thinking in the late ’70s. The author details also the involvement of drug companies in this idea of taking normal behaviors and making them illnesses.
I’m sure drug companies welcome something like this and will gladly research and come up with medication for this – it could be a drug someone takes for life! What a bonanza to drug companies.
In contrast to that, little research and work is being done on antibiotics lately because this is a one-time specific drug to counteract an infection. Personally I’m in favor of alternatives to most drugs, but with new infections now resistant to old antibiotics it could be useful to be researching and creating something that might work.
No, it seems they prefer to work on drugs that someone can take long term, even for life. I got sidetracked for a moment on this, having read recently about this issue. It doesn’t take too much of a stretch of imagination to think that drug companies would love this new “disease” –
And could even be behind this push to categorize introversion as a disorder.
Today I will add my voice to the American Psychiatric Association website opposing this. And, I’ll send out emails to people I know will add their support.