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Over-Dependency

Robert Anderson

1949 32 min

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The case history of a man whose life is crippled by behaviour patterns carried over from a too-dependent childhood. Through therapy he comes to understand the causes of his illness and fear.

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The case history of a man whose life is crippled by behaviour patterns carried over from a too-dependent childhood. Through therapy he comes to understand the causes of his illness and fear.

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Psychology and Psychiatry

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Credits

• director
  Robert Anderson
  
• producer
  Robert Anderson
  
• script
  Robert Anderson
  
  Bruce Ruddick
  
  Miguel Prados
  
• camera
  Jean-Marie Couture
  
• sound
  Robert Champagne
  
• editing
  Victor Jobin
  
• animation
  Norman McLaren
  
• narrator
  John Drainie
  
• music
  Robert Fleming
  

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