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The Soul Keeper

The Soul Keeper (2003)

2003-01-17 · 90 min · Rating 6.60/10 (62 votes)

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

Keywords

1920s 1930s 1940s biography carl jung doctor doctor patient relationship forgotten holocaust (shoah) hospital love affair mental illness psychiatric hospital psychology russian revolution (1917) stalinism suicide attempt switzerland woman spirit