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Freud: 2: The Hypnotist

on BBC Two England

A six-part dramatisation depicting the life, work and ideas of Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis.
Written by Carey Harrison
Starring David Suchet as Sigmund Freud

Paris, 1885. Charcot's sensational experiments with hysterical cases are the talk of the town and Freud is much impressed. But the Frenchman's belief that the root of hysteria lies, invariably, in the genitals is greeted with scorn when Freud proclaims it in Vienna.
Undaunted, in his treatment of the Baroness, Freud persists with Charcot's methods and Breuer's 'talking cure'.

Cast in order of appearance: [see below]
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Writer:
Carey Harrison
Music composed by:
Ilona Sekacz
Lighting Director:
Howard King
Designer:
Peter Blacker
Designer:
Susan Spence
Director:
Moira Armstrong
Producer:
John Purdie
Sigmund Freud:
David Suchet
Anna as a child:
Sophie Kind
Charcot:
Dinsdale Landen
Darkschewitsch:
Peter Blake
Delboeuf:
John Grillo
Prince Karl:
Peter Mackriel
Martha Bemays:
Helen Bourne
Minna Bemays:
Suzanne Bertish
Joseph Breuer:
David Swift
Wilhelm Fliess:
Anton Lesser
Professor Chrobak:
Frederick Bartman
Professor Meynert:
Glyn Houston
Baroness von Lieben:
Miriam Margolyes
Alexander Freud:
Frank Baker
Jacob Freud:
Howard Goorney

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