Watch trailers for three DVDs from the Audiovisual Project of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis meets the stage in Iago on the Couch with Simon Russell Beale and Terry Hands. Three short films on psychoanalysis introduce psychoanalysis, the British Psychoanalytic Society and training to be an analyst. Senior analysts from the British Psychoanalytic Society help analysts in training to understand the qualities needed to be a psychoanalyst in Encounters Through Generations.
© The Institute of Psychoanalysis 2010
DVD: Shakespeare's Characters On The Couch
Actors and Analysts discuss Iago from Othello
With Simon Russell Beale and Terry Hands
The venue: Freud's Hampstead home
The setting: Freud's dinner table
The host: psychoanalyst Don Campbell
The guests: actor Simon Russell Beale and theatre director Terry Hands with psychoanalysts David Bell and Ignes Sodre
The conversation: IAGO
Theatrical experience and psychoanalytic expertise join together in this uniquely atmospheric setting for an involved and engaging examination of one of Shakespeare’s most complex characters.
Directed by Alnoor Dewshi.
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What Is Psychoanalysis?
Given the daunting task implied by the title, and the volumes written on the topic, this film consist of a short black and white cartoon, more in the spirit of an advert than a documentary. The main character uses his psychoanalytic session and the analyst's contribution to work through a perceived slight at work with the use of free associations and dreams. The film tries to show visually some essential components of the psychoanalytic process including the analytic function, transference, dreams, repetitions and the oedipal conflict. Blink and you'll miss them!
British Psychoanalysis
This short film seeks to illustrate some of the essentially "British" ingredients in psychoanalysis as it has developed in the British Psychoanalytic Society. We start in Freud's house, now home to the Freud Museum where the films are to be launched. The arrival in London of the Freud family in 1939, fleeing from the Nazis, has been of central importance for the growth of British psychoanalysis and the many debates that have taken place among Freud's successors including Anna Freud, Klein, Bion and Winnicott. We hear from psychoanalysts who trained at the British Society, often filmed in their own consulting rooms, as they describe their impression , from different theoretical perspectives, of just what it is that puts the "British" in "British psychoanalysis" and of their experience of practising psychoanalysis following the British tradition.
Training to be a Psychoanalyst
Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a psychoanalyst? To sit behind a couch and analyse someone's dreams and phantasies, to helping someone to reclaim her life? To follow in Freud's footsteps but in 21st century style? We accompany an aspiring student as he talks to analysts from the Institute of Psychoanalysis about what the training involves, and what life as a modern analyst is actually like.
© The Institute of Psychoanalysis 2010
Encounters through Generations is a series of filmed events organised at the Institute of Psychoanalysis between old and new generations of psychoanalysts and candidates in training. This video is an edit of a longer DVD documentary which we hope will be available after Summer 2010.
Filming of this documentary has been funded by the International Psychoanalytical Association's DPPT project.
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