Frédéric Pierrot and Mélanie Thierry in En Thérapie.
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Arte
Arte is broadcasting this Thursday episodes 16 to 20 of the
En Thérapie
series
, which has accumulated nearly 26.5 million views on Arte.tv.
20 Minutes
asked its readers what psychological impact the series, which features a shrink and his patients, had on them.
Psychoanalyst Michaël Stora agreed to comment on them.
“I really liked the series, but I came out of it, upset and upset,” writes Caroline, 52.
In therapy
does not leave its spectators indifferent!
This fiction features the sessions of a psychoanalyst who receives four days during a different patient before, on Friday, to go himself to his supervisor, the day after the attacks of November 13th.
In therapy
thus explores in the course of its 35 episodes both the intimate traumas of these characters and that of the national attacks.
While the French adaptation of the Israeli format
BeTipul
on Arte is a hit both on air and online (with nearly 26.5 million views),
20 Minutes
asked its readers what psychological impact the series initiated by the duo Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, whose episodes 16 to 20 air on Arte this Thursday, had on them.
“I cried in almost every episode and it was good,” says Valérie, 57 years old.
In therapy revived bad memories.
The one who lives and works between Place de la République and the Bastille remembers: “I was traumatized by
Charlie
and then the Bataclan.
The period mentioned "echoes the one we are going through today", she believes.
"During my therapy, I mentioned the attacks of 2015"
“During my therapy, I spoke of the 2015 attacks as having swept away recklessness from my life forever,” says Rose, 56.
She evokes these "acts of barbarism" again with her therapist at the time of the assassination of Samuel Paty and the trial of the
Charlie Hebdo
attacks
.
“Beyond the trauma left by the attacks of November 13, it also brought back my own intimate wounds, feelings of injustice or self-judgment, and forced introspection,” says Marianne, 55 years old. .
In therapy
is also regularly invited on the couch of Michaël Stora, psychologist, psychoanalyst, and founder and president of the Observatory of digital worlds in human sciences.
“It's a series that moves, says the expert.
If the series has for context, the issue of November 13, very quickly, this question is no longer really at the center.
It shows the aftermath of November 13, in what everyone will come to summon their personal and unconscious history, with fictional characters, ”he analyzes.
"Interposed screen therapy"
“The series is explicitly linked to the discovery of the unconscious.
This is one of her great talents, she makes us aware that we have an unconscious, and that's why she is very intelligent, ”greets Michaël Stora.
"I had the impression of following a therapy by interposed screen and that will perhaps lead me to start mine", explains Marianne.
“It's not a series, it's real therapy.
Having done a psychoanalysis, I rediscover the reflexes and springs which, despite the fiction, help me to be a better human being.
A series that should be reimbursed by the Social Security!
», Testifies Max, 41 years old.
“I have been in analysis for 20 years.
This series plunged me back into moments that I had mentioned on the couch.
Symbolic dreams.
A certain anxiety, ”says Sophie, 68 years old.
"I went to therapy five years ago, it's a bit like a booster shot," says Patrick, 65.
“What I read in the testimonials is that everyone was rekindled in their own analysis, between those who think it is worth starting one, and others who wonder how they finished theirs, and others who lived almost a cathartic dimension, as if the series in itself had allowed some to finally develop dark areas that they had perhaps not visited ”, comments Michaël Stora.
"This episode took me back 29 years"
“I recognized myself in a character.
I realized that the analytical work had not come to an end, ”says Sophie, 68.
“I watched
In Therapy
, and I watched in replay again the sequence in which the couple question whether or not they are keeping the unborn child.
This episode took me back 29 years when my husband and I had this choice to make.
I still miss this third child that I could have had today, ”says Aline, 63 years old.
At the time, Aline did not consult: "We did not necessarily have this reflex, but I'm sure that would have helped me a lot", she continues.
And to conclude: "I wonder now if I will not take the step towards a shrink, to speak about all this, because deep down, the wound is still there"
“The series is made such that there are inevitably in the history of the characters, analogies with its own history… How not to seize it?
I'm digesting, but I'm still hungry, ”says Marianne.
“The current climate being anxious everything has aggregated.
I recognized myself in a character.
I realized that the analytical work had not come to an end, ”says Sophie, 68 years old.
"I made a few transfers on my own life when I have never done therapy in my life," notes Caroline, 52 years old.
“What makes us love a series is that there are processes of identification with the characters.
These processes, with this type of series, can be very adhesive.
We can say to ourselves: "But, it's me! This story causes me", as some Lacanians would say.
It is obvious that we approach through this series all the same the great basic psychic conflicts.
The stories mentioned are stories that we meet quite commonly: the couple, the professional world, sexual abuse, ”explains the psychoanalyst.
“My God, he was beautiful!
I was the embodiment of transference ”
“I watched with interest the first fifteen episodes,” says Sylvia, 65, who had “reminiscences” of her therapy after the viewing.
She did not continue because of the intrigue between the patient Ariane and her shrink: "I found that inconsistent and even contrary to the ethics of the practitioner," says Sylvia.
"This series comes to give elements of understanding of the functioning of the analyst, and of his counter-transference, here, with Ariane, which comes to revive in a lot of viewers who have done or not an analysis, this question of the transference, which is one of the very bases of the psychoanalytic relationship ”, comments Michaël Stora.
And to add: "This secret, well kept by psychoanalysts, is part, perhaps, of one of the elements which heckles many people who have made an analysis.
"
“I lived twenty-five years of therapy with a psychiatrist who rolled up his sleeves and put the pieces back together one by one, I was 20, he was 40, and damn, my God he was beautiful!
I was the embodiment of the transfer on legs for several years, now we laugh about it together, ”recalls Stéphanie, 47, after seeing the series.
"It's rock'n'roll psychotherapy"
"I think I am also in the process of transferring to Frédéric Pierrot, the psychologist who is extraordinary", jokes for his part Laurence, 51 years old.
"The character of the shrink is very present, maybe too much, it's a point of view, nevertheless, many people may wonder how much they would not like to have a shrink like Dayan", comments Michaël Stora.
“The fake patients who assault the shrink got on my nerves.
We have the impression that the patient has the right to mistreat the therapist by his language and his behavior, which is false, ”laments Isabelle, 60 years old.
“This fiction makes psychotherapy or psychoanalysis a space where a lot of things happen.
It's rock'n'roll psychotherapy ”, tempers Michaël Stora.
"The confinement of the psychiatrist's office frees words and ills"
"I liked it a lot, but the broadcast during this period is perhaps not favorable ???
Too much fragility ”, asks Caroline, 52 years old.
"At a time when everything is forbidden to us: bars, concerts, closed restaurants, the confinement of the psychiatrist's office frees words and ailments, the depth of listening gives meaning and importance to our distress, our traumas, our behavior at risk, our infernal couple crises, ”writes Rose, 56.
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In the midst of a pandemic, “the analyst's office is also a refuge and perhaps a place of confinement.
For 45 minutes, we are confined with our analyst.
It's a series that refers to something about confinement, ”underlines Michaël Stora.
And to remember, that in this period "in which we are all in a bit of depression, connected to a context", "we have never seen so many series with these stories of confinement and curfew.
There is no doubt that among all those at our disposal, In therapy, resonates particularly with what we are going through.
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