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Films have a lot of layers. When you dig deeper, you can understand more of what the people who create the film intend to convey. With this book, Anita is giving people a crash course. The movie is not finished just because you leave the theater. You are still thinking about it, and there are always new references and things to discover. The dots are there, you just have to connect them."" Banksy, (artist) From the Preface by the author: Every Saturday during my teens, I went to the movies by myself where I was transported into another world. While walking home, I was immersed in the movie I had just seen, often identifying with one of the characters. I continued to remain in the world of the movie for many hours, during supper, and until I went to sleep. It is not surprising that my interest in movies foretold my chosen profession as a psychoanalyst. I observe and listen to people and try to understand them on a deeper level. Understanding people, their motivations, dilemmas, hopes, desires, and fears, are so often the subject of the movies that intrigue me. The difference is in my role as psychotherapist I will have an impact on the course of their life. The movies I've chosen to include in this book have enlightened, impressed, moved and entertained me. Some of them are disturbing but deal with important issues of being human. I have tried to represent the totality of the human experience. Writing this book has been a journey much like working with someone in psychotherapy. The exceptional power of movies has helped me to go deeper into understanding the human condition. I share my journey in writing this book with all who are interested in understanding what movies mean to them.

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""The lines of contrast between a book and a film are distinct. While books are an intimate and private indulgence performed in the brightness of light, films are a voyeuristic experience shared in the dark, often with others-even strangers. Where they are similar is that both are built on ideas and words seeking to describe the human experience. Both forms of expression are at their best when we as their creators stimulate analysis and discussion in others. Dr. Katz's new book is a marriage of true minds between these two art forms. She dives deep into several seminal films and, in so doing, amplifies the work of a few key cinematic masters. From Cassavetes to Mendes, and from Malle to Lee, Dr. Katz sheds light on these iconic filmmakers, offering a companion piece that is as evocative in its playlist as it is in analysis. She proves both movies and books are best enjoyed from the couch"" Jeff Oppenheim, Producer, Director, ""Real Fake: The Art, Life and Crimes of Elmyr de Hory."" Anita's sensitive, rich and deep commentaries can be enjoyed, not only by professionals, but by teachers and students, and, above all, by ordinary people who would like to enter into the psychic complexity of other worlds grasping ""its multitude of feelings and thoughts-crying, laughing, celebrating, mourning, losing, finding."" Franco Borgogno, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, Past Full Professor in Clinical Psychology (Turin University), 2010 Sigourney Award Recipient. His most recent book is ""One Life Heals Another: Beginnings, Maturity, and Outcomes of a Vocation"" published by IPBooks.

"""The lines of contrast between a book and a film are distinct. While books are an intimate and private indulgence performed in the brightness of light, films are a voyeuristic experience shared in the dark, often with others-even strangers. Where they are similar is that both are built on ideas and words seeking to describe the human experience. Both forms of expression are at their best when we as their creators stimulate analysis and discussion in others. Dr. Katz's new book is a marriage of true minds between these two art forms. She dives deep into several seminal films and, in so doing, amplifies the work of a few key cinematic masters. From Cassavetes to Mendes, and from Malle to Lee, Dr. Katz sheds light on these iconic filmmakers, offering a companion piece that is as evocative in its playlist as it is in analysis. She proves both movies and books are best enjoyed from the couch"" Jeff Oppenheim, Producer, Director, ""Real Fake: The Art, Life and Crimes of Elmyr de Hory."" Anita's sensitive, rich and deep commentaries can be enjoyed, not only by professionals, but by teachers and students, and, above all, by ordinary people who would like to enter into the psychic complexity of other worlds grasping ""its multitude of feelings and thoughts-crying, laughing, celebrating, mourning, losing, finding."" Franco Borgogno, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, Past Full Professor in Clinical Psychology (Turin University), 2010 Sigourney Award Recipient. His most recent book is ""One Life Heals Another: Beginnings, Maturity, and Outcomes of a Vocation"" published by IPBooks."

The lines of contrast between a book and a film are distinct. While books are an intimate and private indulgence performed in the brightness of light, films are a voyeuristic experience shared in the dark, often with others-even strangers. Where they are similar is that both are built on ideas and words seeking to describe the human experience. Both forms of expression are at their best when we as their creators stimulate analysis and discussion in others. Dr. Katz's new book is a marriage of true minds between these two art forms. She dives deep into several seminal films and, in so doing, amplifies the work of a few key cinematic masters. From Cassavetes to Mendes, and from Malle to Lee, Dr. Katz sheds light on these iconic filmmakers, offering a companion piece that is as evocative in its playlist as it is in analysis. She proves both movies and books are best enjoyed from the couch Jeff Oppenheim, Producer, Director, Real Fake: The Art, Life and Crimes of Elmyr de Hory. Anita's sensitive, rich and deep commentaries can be enjoyed, not only by professionals, but by teachers and students, and, above all, by ordinary people who would like to enter into the psychic complexity of other worlds grasping its multitude of feelings and thoughts-crying, laughing, celebrating, mourning, losing, finding. Franco Borgogno, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, Past Full Professor in Clinical Psychology (Turin University), 2010 Sigourney Award Recipient. His most recent book is One Life Heals Another: Beginnings, Maturity, and Outcomes of a Vocation published by IPBooks.

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Dr. Anita Katz is in private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in New York City. Anita Katz, PhD is on the faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and at the Object Relations Institute. She is a senior member of IPTAR (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) and IPA (International Psychoanalytic Association). She is a clinical supervisor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at City University of New York. She has enjoyed and been enriched by the opportunity to present her work and to supervise psychotherapists in various cities in South America, Europe, Asia, Iceland, South Africa and the United States. Dr. Katz has presented and published on aspects of psychoanalysis (both theory and practice) at institutes in China, London, Berlin, Dublin, Mexico City, New York City, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago, and California, between 1998 and the present. She has presented at the American Psychoanalytic Association, on May 16, 1999, in Washington, D.C.; The Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, on September 9, 1999, in Mexico City, Mexico; New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, on September 16, 2000; The Psychoanalytic Society of Long Island, on November 12, 2000; and the Object Relations Institute, on April 20, 2002, in New York City. Among Dr. Katz's many national and international presentations, Dr. Katz presented in London on the film American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes on July 6th, 2003, at ""The Life Cycle"" conference of the British Psychoanalytical Society on the topic of Family Knots and Abusive Ties. At Trinity College, on July 27, 2002, in Dublin, Ireland, Dr. Katz presented her paper ""Transformations and Endings in the film American Beauty."" On November 18th, 2000, IPTAR (Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research) celebrated its 40th Anniversary in New York City with a Conference entitled ""Contemporary Perspectives on Enactment, Gender and the Dynamic Unconscious."" On one of the panels that day, (which happened to be Dr. Katz's birthday), she presented her paper, ""Growing Up, Getting Stuck, or Breaking Down in the film American Beauty: Oedipal and Pre-oedipal Revisitations in Two Generations."" In March of 2002, Dr. Katz presented a workshop sponsored by the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, entitled Exploring Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique Through Cinema. In April 2002, she presented at the Institute under the topic of ""Passionate Attachments: Fathers and Daughters"" entitled ""Fathers Facing Their Daughter's Emerging Sexuality."" In March of 2005, Dr. Katz presented under the auspices of The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Her presentation, entitled ""Rupture and Repair"" delved into the process by which the rupture within the working alliance between therapist and patient was healed. In 2018, Anita Katz co-edited a book with Arlene Kramer Richards entitled Psychoanalysis in Fashion, published by IPBooks. In addition, she wrote several chapters, entitled Intimations of Youth and Unlimited Possibilities, Fashion Journey in Psychoanalysis: Looking As Well As Listening, and contributed to the Introduction. People in the fashion industry as well as the field of psychoanalysis contributed other chapters. Dr. Anita Katz has published many film and book reviews in several journals, including Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychoanalytic Review, Round Robin, and Psychoanalysis and the Arts, since the early 1970's. Dr. Katz wants to thank Alma Bond, Phyllis Dischel, Ada Frumerman, Eve Golden, Roz Goldner, Lynda Gunsberg, Norman Handelman, Jennifer Katz, Stanley Lieberman, Ilana Litvin, Joan Oliner, Doris Pfeffer, Arlene Kramer Richards, and the Martin Bergmann Study Group for their thoughtful readings of early versions of many of her writings.

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