Pressure Point (1962) Synopsis

When a young psychiatrist comes to his Afro-American chief to tell that he can not bear a thirteen year-old patient, the doctor discloses a similar experience he had when he was a rookie and worked as prison psychiatrist. In 1942, the doctor is assigned to give psychiatric treatment and evaluate the dangerous American Nazi patient accused of sedition. The racist patient has nightmares and insomnia and the doctor analyzes him along eighteen months, finding the reason of his disturbance. The patient convinces the board of direction that he deserves to be on probation but the doctor is reluctant and diagnoses that the patient has only resolved his sleeping problem but is still a despicable bigoted person.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

When a young psychiatrist comes to his Afro-American chief to tell that he can not bear a thirteen year-old patient, the doctor discloses a similar experience he had when he was a rookie and worked as prison psychiatrist. In 1942, the doctor is assigned to give psychiatric treatment and evaluate the dangerous American Nazi patient accused of sedition. The racist patient has nightmares and insomnia and the doctor analyzes him along eighteen months, finding the reason of his disturbance. The patient convinces the board of direction that he deserves to be on probation but the doctor is reluctant and diagnoses that the patient has only resolved his sleeping problem but is still a despicable bigoted person.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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