A Dangerous Method

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David Cronenberg's new film examines the birth of psychoanalysis by analysing the friendship and rivalry between two of the greatest minds of recent times: Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Here the director and Viggo Mortensen, who stars as Freud, explain how the pair's work went some way to forming our modern mindset

A droll undercurrent of black comedy underlies David Cronenberg's drama about Freud, Jung and male hysterics, writes Peter Bradshaw

Jason Solomons visits the last house of Dr Sigmund Freud for a session with A Dangerous Method's Viggo Mortensen and meets The Woman in Black director James Watkins

The star of A Dangerous Method

David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method stars Michael Fassbender as Jung and Viggo Mortensen as Freud, with Keira Knightley as the disturbed patient that comes between them

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