Therapy

Ep 244: Analyze This – Does the Movie Show What Therapy is Really Like?

Analyze This - Analyzed by a Psychologist

Analyze This - Analyzed by a Psychologist

 

If you have not seen the movie Analyze This with Robert DeNiro and Billy Krystal, then you really should. It’s not just a funny movie, bit also gets a lot of things about therapy right. So many movies portray psychotherapy so unrealistically but this movie, while it takes a lot of liberties with the therapeutic process, gets some things right and gives you a pretty good idea of how therapy progresses. Through sound bytes from the movie we’ll see examples of catharsis, Freudian defense mechanisms of denial and minimizing, the analysis of dreams, the breaking of therapeutic boundaries, and Rogerian techniques of reflection. A fascinating movie to take apart and that’s just what I do in this episode of The Psych Files.

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