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The Century of the Self Episodes

    Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

    4/4 A look at psychoanalytic techniques used by western political powers to gain power.

    There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads; He Must Be Destroyed

    3/4 This film looks at how radical ideas inspired the rise of the "me" generation.

    The Engineering of Consent

    2/4 How those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas to try and control the masses.

    Happiness Machines

    1/4 How Sigmund Freud's American nephew invented the public relations profession.