There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed

8.3/10 · 193 votesMar 31, 200258 min

Ranked #3 of 4 in Season 1•matches the season avg

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

Season 1 Episodes4

E1 8.5

Happiness Machines

E2 8.4

The Engineering of Consent

E3 8.3Now viewing

There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed

E4 8.2

Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

Cast12

Adam Curtis

Narrator

Anne Bernays

Self

Martin Bergmann

Self

Robert Reich

Self

Edward L. Bernays

Self (archive footage)

Sigmund Freud

Self (archive footage)

Anna Freud

Self (archive footage)

Wilhelm Reich

Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Thatcher

Self (archive footage)

Bill Clinton

Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

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Episode Summary

"There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed" is episode 3 of The Century of the Self season 1. It scored 8.3/10 from 193 votes, ranking #3 of 4 episodes this season (season average 8.3). It aired on March 31, 2002.

There Is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads. He Must Be Destroyed

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