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La vita di Sabina Spielrein, una giovane ebrea russa affetta da isterismo, che fu la prima paziente dello psicanalista Carl Gustav Jung. Guarita sperimentando i metodi del maestro Freud, Sabina diventa l'amante di Jung. Ma la relazione inaccettabile non viene mai riconosciuta. Sabina, votata al suo amore impossibile, diventa a sua volta psichiatra e, tornata in Russia, apre l'Asilo Bianco, un asilo infantile che utilizza metodi all'avanguardia. La dura repressione staliniana, che nel 1936 bandisce la psicanalisi, e la persecuzione nazista metteranno tragicamente fine alla sua vita.
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The Soul Keeper (2003)
90 min
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.