Psychoanalysis (comics)
{{Short description|1955 American series by EC Comics}}
{{For|the body of ideas developed by Sigmund Freud|Psychoanalysis}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Infobox comic book title|
| title = Psychoanalysis
| image = Psychoanalysis issue 1 (EC Comics) cover.jpg
| caption = Cover illustration by Jack Kamen
| schedule = Bi-monthly
| format =
| publisher = EC Comics
| date = March – September 1955
| issues = four
| writers = Robert Bernstein
(Al Feldstein?)
| artists = Jack Kamen
| colorists = Marie Severin
| creators =
| Psych = y
| Thrill = y
}}
Psychoanalysis was a comic book published by EC Comics in 1955, the fifth title in the company's New Direction line. The bi-monthly comic was published by William Gaines and edited by Al Feldstein. Psychoanalysis was approved by the Comics Code Authority, but newsstands were reluctant to display it.{{cite web|url=http://www.saunalahti.fi/karielk/kamehome.htm#psyco3|title=Jack Kamen's EC Cover Art|last=Elkelä|first=Kari|date=January 11, 1998|accessdate=20 November 2010}} It lasted a total of four issues before being canceled along with EC's other New Direction comics.
Characters and stories
Psychoanalysis was unlike practically any other comic published, focusing on psychoanalysis and the day-to-day work of therapists. The comic featured three patients, Freddy Carter, Ellen Lyman and Mark Stone, who were undergoing psychoanalysis. The analyst was the central character.{{cite web|url=http://www.politedissent.com/archives/2055|title=Psychoanalysis #4 (EC, 1955)|author=Scott|date=August 12, 2008|work=Polite Dissent|accessdate=20 November 2010|quote=As the name suggests, in Psychoanalysis the reader follows an unnamed pipe-smoking psychiatrist as he attempts to analyze and cure his patients.}} He was never named, simply listed as The Psychiatrist. Ellen Lyman did not appear in the fourth and final issue,{{cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/12377/|title=Psychoanalysis #4|work=Grand Comics Database|accessdate=20 November 2010}} having been cured in the third issue.{{cite web|url=http://www.politedissent.com/archives/1731|title=Psychoanalysis #3 (EC, 1955)|author=Scott|date=August 20, 2007|work=Polite Dissent|accessdate=20 November 2010}}
Reprints
Between October 1999 and January 2000, publisher Russ Cochran (in association with Gemstone Publishing) reprinted the four individual issues of the book.{{cite web|url=http://www.comics.org/issue/11996/|title=Psychoanalysis #1|work=Grand Comics Database|accessdate=20 November 2010|quote=Reprinted: in Psychoanalysis (Gemstone, 1999 series) #1 (October 1999)}} This complete run was later rebound, with covers included, in a single softcover EC Annual. Dark Horse reprinted Psychoanalysis as part of the EC Archives series in 2020.
Adaptations
The pages were reformatted as a daily comic strip, samples for possible syndication, but it was never picked up by a syndicate.
At the invitation of Steve Allen, Psychoanalysis was adapted into two dramatic episodes which were telecast as part of the NBC Tonight show. One script was by Feldstein, and the other was by Howard Rodman.Variety, 1955.
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.politedissent.com/archives/855|title=Psychoanalysis #1 (EC, 1955)|author=Scott|date=August 4, 2005|work=Polite Dissent|accessdate=20 November 2010}}
- {{gcdb series|id= 1155 |title= Psychoanalysis}}
- {{comicbookdb|type=title|id= 12268 |title=Psychoanalysis}}
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