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“The Heart Has Reasons” (1993) explores different ways of imagining the human heart—contrasting science and medicine’s idea of this essential but fragile organ as a pump or a piece of machinery that can be fixed, with the image of the heart common to all cultures, as the seat of courage, love and the soul. The film’s main contributor is James Hillman whose essay “The Thought of the Heart” inspired Mark and Susan Kidel to make a documentary that was included in a Channel Four (UK) series about cardiac disease, a film that would take viewers on an less conventional journey, bringing together artists, musicians, writers with a heart surgeon who acknowledges that medical students are taught from the outset to put their “hearts” or their emotions to one side. Join for the film, stay for a discussion with the filmmaker!