Afterword: Images of the Unconscious

Afterword: Images of the Unconscious (2014) blends Documentary elements. Top cast includes Nise da Silveira, Leon Hirszman, and Luiz Carlos Mello. It draws from real-world events while keeping the focus on character stakes.

Actor: Nise da Silveira

Dialoguing directly with the trilogy of documentaries “Images of the Unconscious”, made between 1983 and 1986 and based on clinical cases and therapies with a humanist approach and artistic expression, conducted by the pioneering psychiatrist Nise da Silveira (1905-1999) – screenwriter of that film –, here is presented, in two parts, an interview with the doctor, a student of Carl Jung and a pioneer in the application of non-violent treatments for psychiatric patients, given to director Leon Hirszman, in 1986. The conversation is divided in two parts: the first, "The emotion of dealing", the second, "The egress".