Posted by pseudoname on May 29, 2006, at 14:45:17
In reply to Re:Good fiction books/films about therapy??, posted by ElaineM on May 29, 2006, at 11:59:32
A couple others about the therapist-cilent relationship. They're all available at Netflix. (I started to list a bunch of related movies I love like "High Anxiety", but they're not really about that relationship.)
"Madness of King George" (1994) goes into some serious control issues between Nigel Hawthorne, a king who is losing power in many ways, and Ian Holm, his Enlightment-era therapist who restricts and humiliates him “for his own good”. I really liked its outcome, too.
"Mumford" (1999) is about a therapist (dreamy Loren Dean) and his assorted patients. The relationship issue is key to the movie, because the T is not as he seems, but maybe that's okay? Does he actually “betray” his clients if they end up better?
"They Might Be Giants" (1971), with George C Scott as a modern-day New Yorker who thinks he's Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson (Joanne Woodward) is his real psychiatrist. She really has a lot of time to spend with him.
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