Few American voices have been as influential as Paul Goodman’s, nor as forgotten. Sufficiently famous as a writer and social critic to merit a cameo in Annie Hall alongside Marshall McLuhan, Goodman’s landmark texts like Growing up Absurd inspired a generation of radicals in the 1960s. As a practicing psychotherapist in New York, his work with Fritz Perls eventually resulted in the development of Gestalt therapy. Paul Goodman Changed My Life delves into an era of repressive social norms and tumultuous revolutions to reveal one of the period's seminal intellectuals. Goodman’s name may have lapsed from the cultural conversation but, as Jonathan Lee’s film demonstrates, his ideas are as relevant to our time as they were to his.

Presented as part of the Depth of Field 2012-2013 Series: Still Lives

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