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	Amadeus Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $4.94 'Little as psychology has to say about Mozart's miraculous mind, it has even less insight into his fascinating character.'--Howard Gardner, 'Art, Mind & Brain' - page 368 (1982).
	Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery (New Line Platinum Series) Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $0.01 'To suffer one's death and to be reborn is not easy.'--Frederick S. Perls, 'Gestalt Therapy Verbatim' - OBC (1969).
	Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (10th Anniversary Special Collector's Edition) Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $3.07 'Television has become so important...that...life without it is not imaginable....it is a way of PERCEIVING reality.'--Donna Woolfolk Cross, 'Mediaspeak' - pages 1 & 3 (1983).
	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $12.39 '...Charles Manson...illustrates how actual murder can be recorded...on film and in music as an artistic experience.'--Rollo May, 'Power and Innocence' - page 235 (1972).
	Blow Up Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $9.19 '...photographs tell some...story beyond the...visual record...and...more when viewed as a series....From them we...accumulate...knowledge about ourselves and others...otherwise obscured.'--Robert U. Akeret, 'Photoanalysis' - page 9 (1973).
	The Breakfast Club Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $7.38 '...in small groups there is more interaction among members...to increase positive feelings among members....Frustration, hostility...for member results in decreased cohesiveness.'--Hedley G. Dimock, 'Factors In Working With Groups'- pages 22 & 24 (1970).
	Candy Buy used from: $59.86 'Our culture expects girls and young women to be attractive and pleasant consorts for men no matter what their real feelings may be.'--Elizabeth Friar Williams, 'Notes of a Feminist Therapist' - page 96 (1976).
	Casino Royale (40th Anniversary Edition) Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $13.79 '...the face and figure of Ursula Andress...have a...classic beauty....But what...was her fate? To be an ultra-classy foil for a James Bond....A 'destroyer of men,'...stamped with...comicstrip sensibility...that informs all Pop versions of camp sex.'--Parker Tyler, 'Sex Psyche Etcetera in the Film' - page 27 (1969).
	Ciao! Manhattan Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $11.48 'When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.'--Leo F. Buscaglia, 'Personhood' - page 124 (1978).
	The Collector Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.99 '...obsessional characters attempt to control their emotions and...pin down...themselves and others in predetermined positions....to avoid anxiety by eliminating the unpredictable...in human relationships.'--Charles Rycroft, 'Anxiety and Neurosis' - page 77 (1968).
	Death in Venice Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.75 '...homosexuals...fear...paedophiliac interests. The paedophiles' sexual outlets are...infrequent, unsatisfying and guilt-ridden; remaining secret....paedophiles...compartmentalize their thinking, assuming attitudes of...respectability and sexual purity....'--D.J. West, 'Homosexuality' - page 115 (1955).
	Don't Make Waves [VHS] Buy used from: $37.00 'Modern society...has taught man to feel that not his happiness...is the aim of life, but the fulfillment of....Money, prestige and power....'--Erich Fromm, 'Man For Himself' - page 28 (1947).
	Easy Rider Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.97 'Emerging...is the new person, highly aware, self-directing, an explorer of inner, perhaps more than outer, space, scornful of the conformity of institutions and the dogma of authority.'--Carl R. Rogers, 'A Way Of Being' - page 58 (1980).
	Elvira Madigan Buy used from: $21.71 'The problem we continually face...is that it is very difficult to be responsible or to make the moral choice when we are in a true conflict.'--William Glasser, 'Control Theory' - page 15 (1984).
	Fat Albert Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.45 'Serious social problems...from point of view of black youngsters in urban setting....Unusual values in characterization and story content for animated series.'--Evelyn Kaye, 'The Family Guide to Children's Television' - page 170 (1974).
	Fritz the Cat Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.59 'Charles Reich (1970), in...THE GREENING OF AMERICA, writes of a....non-violent revolution developing...from the individual's...changing attitudes towards social justice, sex, dress, drugs, art and so on.'--Brian Wells, 'Psychedelic Drugs' - pages 128-129 (1973).
	Grand Theft Parsons Buy used from: $1.50 'Good friends use each other in a variety of ways...in time of need, for actual services....This is...a good test of friendship.'--Allan Fromme, 'The Ability to Love' - page 191 (1965).
	A Midsummer Night's Dream by Judi Dench Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $15.00 '...in dreams...wish fulfillment is disguised...in fairy tales...openly expressed...dreams are...result of...problems which...knows no solution....fairy tale...promises...'happy' solution....We cannot control...dreams...on an unconscious level. The fairy tale...is...shaped by the conscious mind...in regard to...human problems....'--Bruno Bettelheim, 'The Uses of Enchantment' - page 36 (1975).
	The Monkees - Head Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $10.00 '...one can trace a...visionary experience...through the...coloured movie....a manifestation...of intense beauty and...reality....'a gratuitous grace'...given to us....changing our lives...and....the induction of such experiences by...substances...may be like...going to the movies and....changing our...consciousness....'--Aldous Huxley, 'Moksha' - pages 253-255 (1977).
	Psych-Out [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2&4 Import - Australia ] Buy used from: $21.99 '...the psychedelic position can be summed up in one LSD user's approach to the God is Dead controversy: God is not dead; he is alive and well on another level of consciousness.'--William Marshall and Gilbert W. Taylor, 'The Art of Ecstasy' - page 148 (1967).
	The Simpsons Movie (Widescreen Edition) Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.37 '...parents establish a definite family atmosphere; through them the child experiences the economic, racial, religious, and social influences in his environment.'--Rudolph Dreikurs with Vicki Soltz, 'Children: The Challenge' - page 19 (1964).
	Summer of '42 Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $5.50 '...adolescents try things out in their own ways....conforming to the...group...they fear to deviate lest they find themselves outcasts....The adolescent society provides...the milieu....with the outer tokens that proclaim membership....a considerable number...engage in sexual intercourse....to feel themselves initiated....'--Theodore Lidz, 'The Person' - pages 332 & 335 (1968).
	The Trip [Region 2] Buy used from: $56.99 'Now, as research advances, the psychedelic...drugs give promise of providing access to another of the great and hitherto largely impenetrable realms--the vast, intricate, and awesome regions we call MIND.'--R.E.L. Masters & Jean Houston, 'The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience' - page 3 (1966).
	200 Motels [VHS] Buy used from: $18.97 '...SATIRE is a...caricature which distorts characteristic features of an individual or society by exaggeration and simplification...features...the satirist...disapproves....'--Arthur Koestler, 'The Act of Creation' - page 72 (1964).
	Uncle Buck Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $2.60 '...may be...they live far away or...are not well off financially....Nevertheless, close relatives known to the children are far more likely to have a strong sense of obligation to them than are strangers....'--John Bowlby, 'Child Care and the Growth of Love' - page 135 (1953).

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