Lord Love a Duck

Lots of jargon in this film, some of it concocted:

An unidentified female psychologist (?) administers the Rorschach test to student Alan. (0:04)

In an apparent role reversal Alan diagnoses the psychologist with "massive repression." (0:05)

Barbara Ann, the object of Alan's desire, tells him, "everybody has got to love me." (0:12)

Barbara Ann's mother Marie takes pills (hypnotics?) Before going to bed. (0:19)

Phil (preacher?) tells a group of teens, "Bob is taking a degree in marriage counseling." (0:42)

When Alan begins waving keys in front of her face Barbara Ann tells him, "You're hypnotizing me again, aren't you?" (0:56)

Barbara Ann's suitor Bob tells her, "Dad was a psychiatrist, you know." Bob's mother Stella says he was the "first head shrinker in Beverly Hills to validate parking tickets." (0:57)

Talking about her husband, Stella says his death was "all psychosomatic." (1:00)

Marie washes some pills down with what seems to be liquor, says she would be "better off dead." (1:12)

Alan shows Barbara Ann that Marie is dead. (1:16)

Alan dictates into a tape recorder, "Marie's tragic death did restore my faith in suicide." (1:18)

Bob places a sign that reads "Marriage Counselor" in front of his house. (1:23)

Dr. Lippman diagnoses Bob, indicating he has "all the symptoms of belladonna poisoning."

Stella tells the others about Bob as a child "when I first suspected a psycho-suicidal pattern..." (1:30)

Stella talks about Bob again: "... and it's terminal stages, psycho-suicidal personality..." (1:32)

hypnotic | hypnotism | psychological testing | suicide