Couch and the Silver Screen

Andrea Sabbadini is a psychoanalyst in private practice in London and a lecturer at UCL. He is founding editor of Psychoanalysis and History and book review editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He chairs the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival and a series of film events at the ICA.

• Mulvey, Foreword. Sabbadini, Introduction. Part I: Set and Stage.Bertolucci, Shaw, Mawson, The Inner and Outer Worlds of the Filmmaker's Temporary Social Structure. Christie, Stevenson, Taylor Robinson, One in the Eye From Sam - Samuel Beckett's Film (1964) and his Contribution to our Vision in Theatre, Cinema and Psychoanalysis. Part II: Working Through Trauma.Moretti, Golinelli, Bolognini, Sabbadini, Sons and Fathers: A Room of their Own - Nanni Moretti's The Son's Room (2001). Sekoff, Witness and Persecution in two Short Films: Miguel Sapochnik's The Dreamer (2001) and Lindy Heymann's Kissing Buba (2001). Annegret Mahler-Bungers, A Post-postmodern Walkyrie - Psychoanalytic Considerations on Tom Tykwer's Run, Lola, Run (1999). Pedrón de Martín, Thomas Vinterberg's Festen (1998) - An Attempt to Avoid Madness Through Denunciation. Diamond, Itsván Szabo's Sunshine (1999) - The Cinematic Representation of Historical and Familial Trauma. Part III: Horror Perspectives. Schneider, Notes on the Relevance of Psychoanalytic Theory to Euro-horror Cinema. Campbell, Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985) - A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the 'Horror Film' Genre and Adolescent Development. Aubry, Freedom Through Re-introjection: A Kleinian Perspective on Dominik Moll's Harry: He's Here to Help (2000). Grant, Cinema, Horror and the Abominations of Hell - Carl-Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr (1931) and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (1981). Part IV: Documenting Internal Worlds. Apted, Taylor Robinson, Narratives and Documentaries - An Encounter with Michael Apted and his Films. Cowie, The Cinematic Dream-work of Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957). Filipovic, Film as an Abreaction of Totalitarianism - Vinko Bre an's Marshal Tito's Spirit (2000). Berman, Rosenheimer, Aviad, Documentary Directors and their Protagonists: A Transferential / Countertransferential Relationship? Timna Rosenheimer's Fortuna (2000) and Michal Aviad's Ever Shot Anyone? (1995). Brody, Brearley, Filming Psychoanalysis: Feature or Documentary? Two Contributions.

'In these days, when psychoanalysis is looking for ways to integrate itself back into the world - into cultural, political, intellectual, and emotional life - a book like this is to be cherished ... It is a gold mine for anyone interested in movies, in psychoanalysis, or in the reciprocity between them' - Anita Weinreb Katz, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 53(2): 673-679; 2005."This is a book which will fascinate all cinema lovers and take its place among the many valuable writings on applied psychoanalysis in Europe" - Serge Firsch, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis