This introduction provides context for a collection of articles that came out of a research symposium held at the Science Museum's Dana Research Centre in 2018 for the ‘Demons of Mind: the Interactions of the ‘Psy’ Sciences and Cinema in the Sixties' project. Across a range of events and research outputs, Demons of the Mind sought to map the multifarious interventions and influences of the ‘psy’ sciences (psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis) on film culture in the long 1960s. The articles that follow discuss, in order: critical engagement with theories of child development in 1960s British science fiction; the ‘horrors’ of contemporary psychiatry and neuroscience portrayed in the Hollywood blockbuster The Exorcist (1973); British social realist filmmakers' alliances with proponents of ‘anti-psychiatry’; experimental filmmaker Jane Arden's coalescence of radical psychiatry and radical feminist techniques in her ‘psychodrama’ The Other Side of the Underneath (1973); and the deployment of film technologies by ‘psy’ professionals during the post-war period to capture and interpret mother-infant interaction.

本介绍为 2018 年在科学博物馆 Dana 研究中心举办的“心灵恶魔：六十年代‘心理’科学与电影的相互作用”项目的研究研讨会上发表的一系列文章提供了背景。通过一系列事件和研究成果，心灵恶魔试图描绘 1960 年代漫长的“心理”科学（心理学、精神病学和精神分析）对电影文化的各种干预和影响。以下文章按顺序讨论： 1960 年代英国科幻小说中儿童发展理论的批判性参与；好莱坞大片《驱魔人》中描绘的当代精神病学和神经科学的“恐怖”(1973); 英国社会现实主义电影制片人与“反精神病学”支持者的联盟；实验电影制片人简·雅顿 (Jane Arden) 在她的“心理剧”地下的另一面(1973) 中融合了激进的精神病学和激进的女权主义技术；战后时期“心理医生”专业人士使用电影技术来捕捉和解释母婴互动。