What are the best episodes of The Century of the Self?

The best rated episodes of The Century of the Self are: There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed - S1E3 rated 8.2

What are the worst episodes of The Century of the Self?

The lowest rated episodes of The Century of the Self are: Happiness Machines - S1E1 rated 8.0

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Best Episodes of The Century of the Self

There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed
S1 Ep3
8.2
31st Mar 2002
In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to express itself.

Worst Episodes of The Century of the Self

Happiness Machines
S1 Ep1
8.0
17th Mar 2002
The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.

The Century of the Self Episode Guide

Happiness Machines
S1 Ep1
8.0
17th Mar 2002
The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
The Engineering of Consent
S1 Ep2
8.0
24th Mar 2002
The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.
There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed
S1 Ep3
8.2
31st Mar 2002
In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to express itself.
Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
S1 Ep4
8.0
7th Apr 2002
How both the Labour Party in Britain and the Democrats in America have sought to gain power through use of the focus group, invented by psychoanalysts to fulfil desires of the inner self.

The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examination of his theories on human desire, and how they're applied to platforms such as advertising, consumerism and politics.