A Jungian Perspective on the Therapist-Patient Relationship in Film: Cinema As Our Therapist
Ruth Netzer, "A Jungian Perspective on the Therapist-Patient Relationship in Film: Cinema As Our Therapist"
English | ISBN: 103260834X | 2024 | 144 pages | EPUB | 729 KB
English | ISBN: 103260834X | 2024 | 144 pages | EPUB | 729 KB
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 therapyp; 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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