When Sabina Spielrein (Kiera Knightley) is diagnosed with hysteria, she is placed under the care of Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) who has recently begun using Dr. Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) approach of talking to his patient's as a cure. Over time, it is revealed that Spielrein's psychological problem's are due to her violent father and childhood upbringing. However, Spielrein is highly intelligent and eventually goes onto become a psychiatrist and even begin's a love affai with Jung. But Freud and Jung's close friendship is strained as Jung begin's to question Freud's method's.

When Sabina Spielrein (Kiera Knightley) is diagnosed with hysteria, she is placed under the care of Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) who has recently begun using Dr. Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) approach of talking to his patient's as a cure. Over time, it is revealed that Spielrein's psychological problem's are due to her violent father and childhood upbringing. However, Spielrein is highly intelligent and eventually goes onto become a psychiatrist and even begin's a love affai with Jung. But Freud and Jung's close friendship is strained as Jung begin's to question Freud's method's.

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