Eavesdropping : the psychotherapist in film and television / edited by Lucy Huskinson and Terrie Waddell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huskinson, Lucy, 1976- editor.

Waddell, Terrie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis in motion pictures.

Psychoanalysis on television.

Physical Description:

ix, 190 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

What can depictions of psychotherapy on screen teach us about ourselves? In Eavesdropping, a selection of contributions from internationally recognized academics and professionals involved in psychotherapy and film consultancy investigate the curious dynamics that occur when cinema and television attempt to portray the psychotherapist, and the complexities of psychotherapy, for popular audiences. The book evaluates the potential mismatch between the onscreen psychotherapist whose raison d'etre is to entertain and engage global audiences, and the professional, real-life counterpart, who becomes intimately involved with the dramas of their patients. Although several contributors conclude that actual psychotherapy, and the way psychotherapists and their clients grapple with notions of fantasy and reality, would not be terribly entertaining. Eavesdropping demonstrates the importance of psychotherapy and psychotherapists on screen in assisting us to wrestle with the discomfort - and humour-of our lives. Offering a unique insight into perceptions of psychotherapy. Eavesdropping will be essential and insightful reading for analytical psychologists, psychoanalysts, academics, filmmakers, and students of depth psychology, literature, cinema and media. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Lucy Huskinson and Terrie Waddell

Erotic transference. The (mis)representation of psychoanalysis in film / Andrea Sabbadini

Challenging Freud on the realities of erotic transference with fictional case study: the Sopranos (1999-2007) and In treatment (2008-2010) / Lucy Huskinson

The real psychotherapist: an impossibility for film / Elisabeth Hanscombe

The psychoanalytic approach. Equus: ecstasy, therapy and the animal / Barbara Creed

A conversation between enlightened friends: the mutual reassurances of the arts and sciences in Freud (BBC TV, 1984) / Mark Nicholls

Applying psychoanalysis to Hindi cinema / Dinesh Bhugra and Gurvinder Kalra

The bad psychoanalyst: watching the success of failure / Patricia Gherovici and Jamieson Webster

A contest of wills. Shrink wrapped television: simulated therapy, disclosure, and the lure of plausible doubt / Terrie Waddell

Crossing the River Styx in a small boat / Helena Bassil-Morozow

Remarks on the functions of the psychiatrist in Hitchcock's Psycho and Bergman's Persona' / Donald Fredericksen

Romance or psychotherapy? / Irene Oestrich.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415814096

041581409X

9780415814102

0415814103

OCLC:

900027195