Depicted as a cool, authoritative figure who is wary of Jung’s interest in symbolism and mysticism.

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The story is set in the early 20th century and follows three central figures:

Portrayed as an ambitious but internally conflicted psychiatrist torn between his duty to his wife and his temptation for his patient.

The film is based on the 1993 non-fiction book A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr and the 2002 play The Talking Cure by Christopher Hampton.

Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) tests Sigmund Freud’s (Viggo Mortensen) "talking cure" on Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a young woman diagnosed with "hysteria".

A brilliant woman whose own clinical progress and theories influenced both Jung's concept of the "collective unconscious" and Freud's ideas on "transference". Viewing Guide