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A Jungian Perspective on the Therapist-Patient Relationship in Film: Cinema As Our Therapist

A Jungian Perspective on the Therapist-Patient Relationship in Film: Cinema As Our Therapist

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Film StudiesGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1032608374
ISBN13: 9781032608372
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 27 2024
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Within this book, Ruth Netzer explores the archetypal components of therapist-patient relations in cinema from the perspective of Jungian archetypal symbolism, and within the context of myth and ritual.

Film is a medium that is attracted to the extremes of this specific relationship, depicting the collapse of the accepted boundaries of therapy; though on the other hand, cinema also loves the fantasy of therapy as intimacy. Through the medium of film, and employing examples from over 45 well-known films, the author analyzes the successes and failures of therapists within film, and reviews the concepts of transference and counter-transference and their therapeutic and redemptive powers, in contrast to their potential for destruction and exploitation within the context of a patient-therapist relationship.

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