The influence of dynamic psychiatry on <i>Tender Is the Night</i> by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Critics have applied several, sometimes contradictory, theoretical lenses to the text. As a result, the text has been characterised either as ignorant of psychiatry or in league with the so-called autocratic and “unscientific” basis of its practices.

Often, it is regarded a revenge project aimed at his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (herself a psychiatric patient periodically between 1930 and 1948). </p><p><br>Medicine’s rediscovery of the humanistic dimensions of its practice during the past thirty years provides a useful framework that Tender criticism can use to break the cycle of restatement of tired and misapplied theoretical premises from a by-gone era of anti-psychiatry, psychoanalytic theory, and second-wave feminism.