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In Treatment

Posted May 19th, 2011 by Ambo Suno

As some of you may know, HBO has produced a series called, "In Treatment", with Gabriel Byrne, and Dianne Wiest. He appears to be a psychoanalyst or psychoanalytically informed psychotherapist. As in most story telling and certainly TV there are various compressions and skewings to rapidly and poignantly convey particular facets of life - yet these In Treatment skewings seem to me to leave the stories still in the believable range.

On each DVD, there are five vignettes. Four different fictional patients or families in session and one session primarily of consultation/supervision/therapy with an experienced therapist, Dianne Wiest. There is a lot of life compressed into these encounters.

At first, I wasn't so sure as I overcame some skeptical reticence and allowed that sufficiently minor suspension of disbelief. Now, I'm getting into it in a way that I haven't since watching the "Westwing" DVDs several years ago.

Anyone seen them? Are they real enough, do you think?

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yes

Posted May 19th, 2011 by Scott Marshall

and I enjoyed the whole series-

 

The acting work is phenomenal in my opinion with excellent views into the human pathology.  

 

In more ways than one!