A Jungian Perspective on the Therapist-Patient Relationship in Film

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.

Autorentext

Ruth Netzer is a clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst (senior lecturer and supervisor), poet, and painter, and does research in literature and cinema. She has published 12 non-fiction books on Jungian psychology and 12 books of poetry (which have won 5 literary awards), as well as scores of professional articles. She teaches at the School of Jungian Psychotherapy in Seminar HaKibbutzim College in Israel.

Inhalt

Personal Introduction 1. Psychological Aspects of Cinema 2. Therapist-Patient Relationships: Love and Death 3. Archetypes Activated in the Therapist-Patient Relationships 4. Therapists as Mirrored in Cinema 5. Cinema as a "Chief Supervisor" for Therapists 6. Cinema, Madness, and Anti-psychiatry 7. Therapy and Redemption: Myth, Healing, and Religious Symbolism 8. Therapy in Cinema: The Wholeness of the Self, the Union of Opposites