title: A psychoanalyst views inception.
abstract: The author, a psychoanalyst, discusses the 2010 film, Inception, discerning the parallels and differences between cinematic dreaming states as shown in the film and psychoanalytic processes. The movie presents the unknown and un-psychoanalytic phenomena of group shared dreaming, manipulation of other people's dreams with criminal intent, and multiple structured layers of dreaming. In parallel, however, the lead character appears to work through a complicated state of derealization, mourning, guilt, rage, and loss in the course of dreaming.
authors: Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
authors: Norman A
authors: NA
authors: Clemens
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003861:Depersonalization / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D004325:Dreams; D006117:Grief; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D008257:Machiavellianism; D009040:Motion Pictures; D010565:Persuasive Communication; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D011889:Rage