Films and media
Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.
Adam 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.
A portrait of C.G. Jung built from interviews with the analysts and patients who knew him, plus rare footage of Jung himself.
A three part television series on Jung's life and ideas, made for Channel 4 by Stephen Segaller and Merrill Berger.
The recovered story of Sabina Spielrein, patient of Jung, correspondent of Freud, and an original analytic thinker in her own right.
Real couples, real sessions, filmed over several seasons with the psychoanalyst Orna Guralnik.
Jonah Hill turns the camera on his own therapist, Phil Stutz, and the film becomes a session about making the film.
A plain, low budget account of the Western Lapland approach to first episode psychosis, in which the family and the network meet from the start.
A 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.
A man raises a child who is not biologically his, and then has to survive the return of the father who is.
Present day residents of Rijeka restage the 1919 occupation of their own city by Gabriele D'Annunzio and his private army.
Lacan on French television, answering questions put to him by Jacques-Alain Miller, in two parts broadcast in March 1974.
Extracts from Lacan's 1972 Louvain lecture, followed by a long interview with him filmed for Belgian television.
Ordinary People
Robert Redford · Film · 1980
A family cannot absorb the death of one son, and the surviving boy's work with a psychiatrist becomes the film's centre.
The Son's Room
Nanni Moretti · Film · 2001
A psychoanalyst's settled family life collapses when his teenage son dies in a diving accident, and the therapist cannot contain his own grief.
Three Colours: Blue
Krzysztof Kieslowski · Film · 1993
After her composer husband and young daughter die in a car crash, a woman tries to cut herself off from her past, only to be drawn slowly back toward life.
The Sweet Hereafter
Atom Egoyan · Film · 1997
After a school-bus crash kills many of a small town's children, a lawyer arrives to build a case, stirring grief, blame and old wounds among the survivors.