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Jun 2015
13m 19s

Freud’s Couch

ROMAN MARS
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Sigmund Freud’s ground-breaking techniques and theories for therapy came to be called “psychoanalysis,” and it was embodied, in practice and popular culture, by a single piece of furniture: the couch. Producer Ann Hepperman explores the role of this ca... 
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