She plays psychoanalyst, reading guests quickly and booking them into the places that will best suit them.
Sharing her scenes with Tilda Swinton (in disguise as "Lutz Ebersdorf" playing psychoanalyst Josef Klemperer, Harperr had to crash-learn German before flying to the remote Italian shoot.
Gein hovers in Hitchcock's nightmares, even playing his psychoanalyst at one point.
Nanni Moretti, an actor and director who has evolved from mischievous comedy ("Dear Diary") through poignant domestic drama ("The Son's Room") to become Italy's leading cinematic social critic, is represented by "We Have a Pope," in which he plays a psychoanalyst asked to treat a newly elected pontiff (Michel Piccoli) with a serious (and quite funny) case of cold feet.
In 1991, nearly 30 years after the play takes place, psychoanalyst Virginia Goldner argued that "gender coherence, consistency, conformity, and identity are culturally mandated normative ideals" and that "to conform to their dictates requires the activation of a false-self system".
Sexuality can be a puzzle — just ask Carl Jung, the kinky and conflicted psychoanalyst played by Michael Fassbender in "A Dangerous Method," or Brandon, the sex addict played by Michael Fassbender in "Shame".
Mr. Fiennes plays the great psychoanalyst Jung to the still greater man from whom he eventually split, James Hazeldine's Freud.
Adrien Brody plays Peter Bower, a psychoanalyst who in the time-honoured manner of films like this has lost a child.
Moretti plays Brezzi, a psychoanalyst, who is secretly invited to come and talk to Melville as the days of uncertainty wear on.
The Vatican's officials – portrayed affectionately enough as nervous bumblers – call in a psychoanalyst (played by Moretti himself) to try and talk Melville round.
