The Talking Cure

"Christopher Hampton's new play The Talking Cure deals with the early years of C.G. Jung and his decision to experiment, using Freud's controversial new method of psychoanalysis, with a young Russian patient, Sabina Spielrein. The success of the experiment and the blossoming of his relationship with Sabina inauguarates, haunts and ultimately poisons Jung's friendship with Freud; and the ideas and conflicts which engulf the three of them embody, as Jung comes to realize, the destructive forces which are to overwhelm the disastrous century ahead"--Jacket.