A Jungian Perspective On The Therapist-Patient Relationship In Film Cinema As Our Therapist | Mental Health

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. This book will be a fascinating read for Jungian analysts psychologists psychiatrists and therapists with an interest in the link between cinema and therapy as well as filmmakers and students and teachers of film studies. |A Jungian Perspective on the Therapist-Patient Relationship in Film Cinema As Our Therapist | Mental Health