Films and media

Documentaries, films and series that show the work, or the history behind it. Each entry carries one sentence saying what it covers.

The Century of the SelfAdam Curtis, 2002, United Kingdom, DocumentaryAdam Curtis traces how Freud's theory of the unconscious was turned by his nephew Edward Bernays into the engine of public relations and consumer capitalism.
Matter of HeartMark Whitney, 1986, United States, DocumentaryA portrait of C.G. Jung built from interviews with the analysts and patients who knew him, plus rare footage of Jung himself.
The Wisdom of the Dream1989, United Kingdom, DocumentaryA three part television series on Jung's life and ideas, made for Channel 4 by Stephen Segaller and Merrill Berger.
My Name Was Sabina SpielreinElisabeth Marton, 2002, DocumentaryThe recovered story of Sabina Spielrein, patient of Jung, correspondent of Freud, and an original analytic thinker in her own right.
Couples TherapyJosh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg, Eli Despres, 2019, United States, SeriesReal couples, real sessions, filmed over several seasons with the psychoanalyst Orna Guralnik.
StutzJonah Hill, 2022, United States, DocumentaryJonah Hill turns the camera on his own therapist, Phil Stutz, and the film becomes a session about making the film.
The WorkJairus McLeary, Gethin Aldous, 2017, United States, DocumentaryFour days inside a group therapy programme at Folsom Prison, where inmates and men from outside do the work together.
CrazywisePhil Borges, Kevin Tomlinson, 2017, United States, DocumentaryWhat if a psychological crisis is not only an illness? Borges compares Western psychiatric responses with how other cultures read the same experience.
Open DialogueDaniel Mackler, 2011, Finland, DocumentaryA plain, low budget account of the Western Lapland approach to first episode psychosis, in which the family and the network meet from the start.
Cinema ParadisoGiuseppe Tornatore, 1988, ItalyA boy, a village projectionist and a lifetime of censored footage: Tornatore's love letter to cinema and to the man who stands in for an absent father.