Sabina and Cronenberg
I found the film very interesting. It is a pity Cronenberg didn’t show Jung 20cms taller than Freud, which he actually was, neither Jung picking Freud from the ground in his arms. The only way a think the question of…
Mon expérience de l’autisme
Mon expérience de l’autisme Garance, autour d’Écouter Haendel de Scarlett et Philippe Reliquet, Gallimard, 2011 Écouter Haendel est une jubilation de Garance, enfant autiste. C’est aussi le titre d’un livre où ses parents racontent leur découverte lente et douloureuse de…
A Dangerous Method
True to historic facts, Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method holds some interesting surprises – naturally, considering the director and the actors’ work on the subtlest staging details. (See the Cronenberg interview). Some of those details lie on the more comical side,…
Cronenberg Interview
For a revealing interview with Cronenberg about his work on A Dangerous Method, follow this link (Filmcomment):
Psychoanalysis, differently
After The Worst Ennemies of Psychoanalysis and The Best Friends of Psychoanalysis Prado de Oliveira turns to the Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi (1873-1933). Prado considers Ferenczi to be the most paradoxical disciple of Freud for being both close and critical,…
Effectiveness of Long-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
In 2008, Falk Leichsenring, DSc, and Sven Rabung, PhD, published a meta-analysis on the « Effectiveness of Long-term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy » in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, 2008; 300(13): 1551-1565, doi:10.1001). The authors start their enquiry by questioning the…