Moving Images

Andrea Sabbadini is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and its Director of Publications. He works in private practice in London, is the director of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, and is also the film section editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Boundaries and Bridges (Karnac 2014) and the editor of Even Paranoids Have Enemies (Routledge 1998), The Couch and the Silver Screen (Routledge 2003) and Projected Shadows (Routledge 2007).

• Introduction. A Young Profession: Films on Psychoanalysis. … And the Oldest One: Films on Prostitution. The Young Ones: Films on Children. … And Slightly Older Ones: Films on Adolescents. Between Eros and Thanatos: Films on Love. Watching Voyeurs: Films on Scopophilia. Appendix.

"Andrea Sabbadini's Moving Images is a brilliant, clearly written and illuminating collection of essays on film and psychoanalysis. The films he discusses range from those with manifest psychoanalytical content (e.g. Spellbound), to others with more latent ones (e.g. Kes). His original and challenging readings are an irresistible blend of psychoanalytical expertise and sheer delight in film. Books on film and psychoanalysis can often be opaque or hard-going. Moving Images is a wonderful exception that proves the rule." - Peter William Evans, Queen Mary, University of London"The passionate love-story between Psychoanalysis and Cinema presents in this book one of its most convincing and superb peaks. Andrea Sabbadini, an outstanding British analyst and organizer of the "European Psychoanalytic Film Festival" held in London since 2000, shows all his competence and contagious enthusiasm in dealing with this exciting topic.A deep and thoughtful work, a real pleasure for the reader." - Stefano Bolognini, President of the International Psychoanalytical Association"Sabbadini writes with a sensibility that befits his role as director of the European Film Festival... Moving Images is a very scholarly work. For psychoanalysts who go to the movies as a busman's holiday, this book will be a wonderful cinematic travelogue. For students of the humanities who watch through a psychoanalytic lens, this book will be a delight." - Jaine Darwin, PsycCRITIQUES