Side Effects (I) (2013)

Jude Law: Dr. Jonathan Banks

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• Dr. Jonathan Banks : Depression is an inability to construct a future.

• Dr. Jonathan Banks : Past behaviour is the best predictor of future behaviour.

• Dierdre Banks : [about taking beta blocker]  Is it bad that I'm doing this?

  Dr. Jonathan Banks : Everyone takes them. Lawyers, musicians - people going to interviews for big jobs. It doesn't make you anything you're not. It just makes it easier for you to be who you are.

• Dr. Jonathan Banks : I'm a psychiatrist, Miss Taylor. Normally, when people hit things with their car, there are skidmarks on the pavement. A brick wall is a pretty good reason to use the brakes, turn the wheel. You didn't do that.

• Dr. Jonathan Banks : She's not depressed.

  Assistant District Attorney : Yeah. And you didn't catch it and someone died. And I didn't catch it and someone didn't go to jail. We failed.

• Dr. Jonathan Banks : I want to start her on this. It's called an SSRI. It affects the neurotransmitter in the brain called Serotonin.

  Martin Taylor : And what does that do exactly?

  Dr. Jonathan Banks : It helps stop the brain from telling you you're sad.

• Dr. Jonathan Banks : [about electroshock]  It's in our best interest that you start forgetting.

• Dr. Jonathan Banks : [He and his wife are standing in their kitchen]  It was during my residency, there was a walk-in clinic at the university. I saw her maybe three times. She called the suicide hotline every other night, even when she saw other people there. She was a paranoid schizophrenic and a drug addict, a very sick girl. She stalked me, she knew where I lived.

  Dierdre Banks : She said you took her to London

  Dr. Jonathan Banks : Never

  Dierdre Banks : [Referring to the letter on the table]  Why are they writing this?

  Dr. Jonathan Banks : Their daughter committed suicide and left a very graphic note naming me. It never happened. Look, it's not unusual for there to be emotional transference between a patient and a therapist.

  Dierdre Banks : [Referring again to the letter]  'Had you perform oral sex in your car'?

  Dr. Jonathan Banks : Never! It was a fantasy.