Leonardo DiCaprio’s role as a drug addict in The Basketball Diaries is to be analysed.

Using psychoanalysis to look at the depiction of drug addiction in film. This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on 14 January 2009.

There may not be an obvious connection between Frank Sinatra, Leonardo DiCaprio and psychiatry, but a series of screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London hopes to use psychoanalysis to look at the depiction of drug addiction in film.

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