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Crazy, Not Insane
Film / 2020

Crazy, Not Insane

Directed by Alex Gibney
Documentary

★ 7.2/10Audience rating

Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.

The story

Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.

Cast

Dorothy LewisSelf Laura DernLiterary Voice of Dorothy Lewis (voice) Eric LewisSelf - Dorothy's Son Gillian LewisSelf - Dorothy's Daughter Richard BurrSelf - Defense Attorney Bill HagmaierSelf - Former FBI Special Agent Park DietzSelf - Forensic Psychiatrist Catherine YeagerSelf - Clinical Psychologist Jonathan PincusSelf - Neurologist Diane SawyerSelf (archive footage) Bill O'ReillySelf (archive footage) Martin ScorseseSelf (archive footage)
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