Director: David Cronenberg

Writer: Christopher Hampton

From a play: The Talking Cure by Christopher Hampton

Based on a book: A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr

Keywords: Drama, Psychiatry, Spanking

Psychological thriller dramatizes Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud's hand in the birth of modern psychoanalysis.

ABSTRACT
Sabrina Spielrein, a young European woman suffering from "hysteria", arrives at Burgholzli, the University of Zurich's psychiatric hospital, to begin a course of treatment with an up-and-coming Swiss doctor by the name of Carl Jung. From there, viewers are subjected to a graphic portrayal of Jung's controversial tactics as the patient and married doctor generally become lovers, depicting a dramatized account of how Jung came to take his place as a controversial father of modern psychoanalysis.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Vincent Cassel	Actor	23-Nov-1966		Irréversible
Michael Fassbender	Actor	2-Apr-1977		Centurion
Keira Knightley	Actor	26-Mar-1985		Bend It Like Beckham
Viggo Mortensen	Actor	20-Oct-1958		Aragorn in Lord of the Rings

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