“Rashomon”: The Analyst Who Came in from the Rain

Some of the best psychoanalytic work in film comes in odd forms: a successful child therapy performed by a dead psychologist (The Sixth Sense see July, 2011);  a good analytic hour  in which the analyst was a cannibalistic psychiatrist locked in a cage (The Silence of the Lambs see June, 2011). But perhaps the most unusual example is that of a relatively successful one session psychoanalytic psychotherapy conducted in medieval Japan in an abandoned temple during a rainstorm. Continue reading “Rashomon”: The Analyst Who Came in from the Rain