In Treatment - The Therapist

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Television series
German title In Treatment - The Therapist
Original title In treatment
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Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2007-2010
length 25 minutes
Episodes 106 in 3 seasons
genre drama
idea Hagai Levi
production Executive Producers :
Rodrigo García (1st and 2nd season)
Warren Leight (2nd season)
Anya Epstein (3rd season)
Dan Futterman (3rd season)
Stephen Levinson (1st - 3rd season)
Mark Wahlberg (1st season) - 3rd season)
Hagai Levi (1st - 3rd season)
Paris Barclay (2nd and 3rd season)
music Richard Marvin (1st and 2nd season)
Marty Beller (3rd season)
Avi Belleli (title melody)
First broadcast Jan 28, 2008 (USA) on HBO
German-language
first broadcast
September 15, 2008 on Series Premiere
occupation

In Treatment is an American television series about a psychotherapist named Paul Weston, played by Gabriel Byrne , and the therapy sessions with his weekly returning patients. Between 2007 and 2010, the television station HBO produced three seasons. The first two were shown for the first time on German-speaking television in 2008 and 2011. Seasons one and two are based directly on the award-winning Israeli series BeTipul (בטיפול), the third season ties in with it with its own ideas.

The series received several awards and, like the original BeTipul , stands out for its unusual series concept.

Content and structure

Each season shows over the course of several narrated weeks how a number of Paul Weston's cases and his own visits to a therapist develop. The series is characterized by its cyclical structure: each day of the week, a session between Paul and a specific patient or therapist is assigned, with a series dedicated to one session. The viewer therefore regularly encounters a specific constellation of characters every few episodes. While the patients switch from season to season, the therapist is the same in the first two seasons. She initially acts as Paul's supervisor , in the second, Paul goes into therapy with her. The third season replaces the previous therapist with another.

The staging is very minimalist: A typical episode is limited to the practice of Paul or his supervisor / therapist as the only setting . It begins with the arrival of the client and ends with his departure. The plot consists essentially of conversations - often supplemented by excerpts with events immediately before or after such a conversation. While they are talking to each other, most of the time they are sitting across from each other. Temporal gatherings during the sessions are not formally marked (e.g. by fading in and out ), so that the viewer apparently follows approximately 30-minute sessions in real time . In some episodes (e.g. 1.07, 1.11 ), however, the length of a single session is discussed, which therefore lasts about an hour in the time told . In the USA it is usual for a psychotherapeutic session to take 50 minutes. The series has a lot in common with a theatrical performance , especially a chamber play .

Some episodes deviate more or less strongly from this basic structure (→ variations in the structure ).

For the broadcast of the first season, HBO based itself on the unusual broadcast concept of the Israeli model, in which the narrative structure of the series was combined with a special broadcast rhythm; From the second season, however, the station changed this rhythm in favor of a more conventional one. This was handled differently on German-speaking television (→ broadcasting concepts ).

Due to falling audience ratings in the course of the third season, HBO announced in March 2011 that it would no longer continue the series in the form it was seen in the first three seasons. But one tries to continue the series in a different way, because one is convinced of the strength of the stories.

First season

The 50-year-old psychotherapist Dr. Paul Weston has his practice in Baltimore on the first floor of the house he lives with his family. The family includes his wife Kate, 17-year-old daughter Rosie, and nine-year-old son Max. His oldest son Ian is in college and no longer lives at home. The sessions of Paul's patients Laura, Alex, Sophie, Jake and Amy as well as Paul's own visits to his retired colleague Gina are presented in 43 episodes over a course of nine weeks of narrated time (Monday to Friday). In his private life, Paul has marital problems with Kate.

Laura

Date: Mondays, 9 a.m.

Laura is a 29-year-old doctor and has been with Paul for a year. Your love relationships with men are difficult and often end in disappointment for them. At the beginning of the plot, she was given a choice by her boyfriend: marriage or separation. Another version of the story will later reveal that it led him to this ultimatum. In complete dismay, she tells how afterwards she almost had sex with a stranger in the toilet of a bar. She confesses to Paul that she is in love with him and says she wants to sleep with him. Paul diagnoses a case of erotic transference and tries to deal with it professionally. It becomes increasingly difficult for him as he realizes how much he is drawn to Laura. He and his wife Kate, however, have become estranged. She accuses him of neglecting the family and tells Paul that she recently had an affair with another man.

Laura reacts with anger to Paul's dismissive attitude as well as the suggestion to end the therapy, and says that he does not trust his feelings for her. She spontaneously accepts her boyfriend's proposal, even though she thinks a marriage is restrictive, and appears late for the meeting in protest. To further provoke Paul, she starts a relationship with Paul's patient Alex, whom she happens to meet in front of the house after the therapy session. In the session, she describes her sexual experiences with him in a provocative and detailed manner and claims that, despite an apparently unsuccessful date, she is looking forward to a wonderful affair - in fact, it ends again the following week. Paul accuses her hurt that she wants revenge on him. Laura says she thinks he is dead inside and wants to help him become happy. Laura succeeds in getting him to admit that he feels a familiarity between them.

At the beginning of the next session, Paul would like to plan to end the therapy, but Laura wants to end the treatment after this session. They talk about an unbearable situation for Laura in her youth: After the death of her mother with cancer , she had to look after her depressed father at the age of 15 . Paul had similar experiences with his depressed mother as a child after his father, a doctor, left the family for one of his patients. Laura tells the shocked Paul that she was deflowered by David, a 40-year-old friend of her father's who lived in their house during a business trip, and that she slept with him several times. A few months earlier, she had spent a carefree vacation with David and his wife and began to rave about him. She doesn't want to see herself as a victim because she thinks she seduced David and claims she enjoyed the sex. Paul, however, condemns his actions and suspects that she is reproaching her father. At the end of the session, Laura suddenly admits that she was so distracted by her thoughts about Paul that she made a life-threatening professional mistake in the hospital. That and the disappointed hope that she and Paul would become lovers, would have caused her to end the therapy. She hugs Paul goodbye and leaves him with her.

The following Monday, Laura wants to speak privately with Paul about her father, whose health has deteriorated. On Paul's advice, she spoke to him for the first time about David. He was not surprised, but she does not want to believe that he could have known what was going on. Paul was disturbed by the thought of never seeing her again. Now he confesses his deep feelings for her, which Laura considers upset to be a psychological test. Ultimately convinced she lets herself into the new situation insecurely. When Paul hugs her because she has to cry while portraying her defloration, which is really disgusting, she tries to kiss him. He restrains her from doing so, whereupon Laura thinks he rejects her. Paul tries to explain to her that a relationship is not right. Her feelings stemmed from the fact that she had problems developing asexual relationships with men because of her experiences with David, and that he did not want to be a second David for her. In parting, he kisses her on the forehead. As she leaves the house, she meets the jealous Kate, who found out about Laura during the sessions with Gina.

Two weeks later, Laura and Paul meet again at Alex's funeral, which he telephoned them to call. There they are mistakenly mistaken for a married couple. Paul tells Laura how uncomfortable it used to be when people thought his father's young wife was his sister. Laura does not feel comfortable around Alex's wife and family and leaves the cemetery prematurely.

Without Laura, Paul suddenly fears that he has missed his great love. Asked by Gina to find out for himself whether Laura is the right one for him, he makes an appointment with Laura for a meeting on Friday of the ninth week in her apartment. In an attempt to convince himself that she has overcome her problems because she has not made any further contact with him, he claims that he now wants a relationship after all. Laura soberly refers to his explanations and doubts that he really wants this. However, on his assurances, she goes into the bedroom. Paul, who followed her hesitantly, had a panic attack when she was sitting on the bed taking off her sweater and quickly left the apartment.

Alex

Date: Tuesdays, 10 a.m.

Lieutenant Alex Prince Junior, 39 years old, is an ambitious Afro-American fighter pilot with a 'cool' facade, shaken by a mission in Iraq during which, on an erroneous order, he bombed a Koran school for boys. Shortly afterwards he suffered a heart attack due to overstraining himself while running , had to be resuscitated and has been on leave since then. Daniel, a doctor friend of his, has advised him to see a therapist before putting into practice his plan to visit the bombing site. Alex struggles with hidden guilt about the children killed and is also afraid of being gay . His problems are overshadowed by the strained relationship with his strict and apparently emotionally cold father. Paul feels repeatedly attacked by the condescending man who constantly strives for perfection and questions Paul's abilities. He assumes that instead of asserting himself against his father, Alex is fighting him and that the therapy is linked to a personal weakness for him.

Allegedly Alex would like to seek advice from Paul regarding his travel plans, but he has already decided to visit the scene of the accident. Paul should take responsibility for his decision in retrospect. The same goes for Alex's decision to leave his family when, on his return from Iraq, he realizes that he has never loved his wife Michaela. Since she grinds her teeth while sleeping , he explains with contempt that she lives by rules too much and that her suppressed emotions haunt her while she sleeps . She is also overly concerned that he will be back to work soon. Paul suspects that Alex is running away from himself and projecting qualities into his wife that he hates in himself. He may not even want to work as a fighter pilot again. Alex denies this, moves out of home and moves in with the gay Daniel and his partner.

He claims that confronting the victims of his bombing did not make him feel guilty as the military deprived him of his ability to feel guilty. He sees his heart attack in no connection with what he experienced. Alex admits that he is annoyed by his lack of feelings, and Paul believes that something is only preventing him from perceiving them. Alex cynically describes his father, for whom life is a constant struggle and who thinks guilt is a weakness that only whites can afford. Alex's father was a proud supporter of the civil rights movement around Martin Luther King and accidentally suffocated his father with lung disease during an attack by racists when he wanted to prevent him from rattling to draw attention to the family's hiding place. Alex refuses to agree to Paul that he may be unconsciously mimicking his father's behavior. It soon becomes apparent that Alex suffers from the idea of ​​being a murderer.

Paul struggles with jealousy when Alex and Laura start an affair. Having Although Alex is used by Laura feels and believes also denied having sex, he sleeps with the use of power resources again with her. Laura told Paul in her meeting that Alex had to force himself to touch her. Paul suspects that he basically did not want to sleep with her because she did not sexually attract him and that he felt inferior because of it. After they sleep together for the second time, the affair ends. Alex insinuates that Paul is addicted to Laura, because she keeps talking about him and he squirms as soon as they talk about Laura. Angry that Paul supposedly hides his private life and feelings during the sessions in order to feel superior to him, Alex calls Paul a hypocrite. He found out about his life and provokes him with offensive statements about him, his family and Laura so that Alex physically and verbally attacks.

When Paul apologizes in the next session and expresses how hurt he was, Alex begins to open up to therapy and grapple with the possibility of being gay. But he doesn't want to admit it. He describes how free from pressure to perform he feels when he spends his free time with his gay friends, and tells of painful childhood experiences with his father, who on the one hand sent him to an elite school and on the other hand wanted to toughen up in the ghetto for life. This takes the view that only "fagots" and girls go to therapy. Paul says that Alex makes a lot of decisions in response to his father's high expectations and doesn't know what he wants himself. Alex starts to cry, immediately afterwards expresses doubts about the effectiveness of the therapy and asks Paul if he would approve if he flew as a pilot again soon, since he can only find inner balance in the air. Paul thinks Alex is in no shape to do so and encourages him to continue therapy.

The seventh session is Alex's last: he appears in uniform, euphorically declaring that he is back on duty, and asks Paul to give the Navy a positive final report. Paul has concerns, but Alex believes that only in the military order can he regain control of his life. He enthusiastically describes how he earned the recognition of the pilots being trained in a flight simulation . He was reconciled with Michaela, who had allied with his father to persuade him to return. At the birthday party of his twelve-year-old son, whom he envies for his self-sufficiency, he noticed that his father had taken on his role at home and could deal with his son better than he himself. Shaken, he tells how his father gave him irresponsibility in an argument have accused.

On the Friday after, Paul receives a call from Daniel informing him that Alex had a fatal accident on a training flight. The question arises whether it was suicide. At the funeral, Paul and Laura meet Alex's family and friends. To find out more about his son and to find out whether he might have killed himself, Alex's father appears at his meeting the next day. Due to his confidentiality, Paul can only give him vague answers. Alex Senior questions the sense of therapy and takes the view that it is vital that some things are repressed into the unconscious and that one should not make them conscious again in therapy.

Sophie

Date: Wednesdays, 4 p.m.

16-year-old Sophie lives with her mother as the only child of divorced parents and is an Olympic hope in gymnastics . She drove in front of a car on her bike and broke both arms. The driver’s insurance now requires a psychological report to clarify whether the accident was actually a suicide attempt. Conflicts arise between Sophie and her mother, whom she apparently despises, but also between her and her absent father, whom she glorifies. Sophie blames herself for their separation and has a disturbed relationship with herself and her body. Paul learns from Sophie, who knows Paul’s daughter from school, that Rosie is considered a “ freak ” and “psycho” there. Paul is particularly empathetic towards Sophie and is concerned about her well-being.

Like her father, who, according to her, does not believe in psychotherapists, Sophie initially disapproves of therapy. She suspects upset that her mother has already spoken to Paul behind her back so that Paul is not interested in her point of view. She allegedly cannot remember what happened in the accident and she reacts angrily when she suspects that she has attempted suicide. She is particularly annoyed that her mother wrongly believes that she wanted to kill herself because of the athletic pressure to perform. She had never supported gymnastics, was afraid it would hinder her physical development and did not understand her. Sophie says she feels safe on the balance beam , but also contemptuously describes the gym as a place of hypocrisy, where anorexia and bulimia are common among the girls, and where each girl tries to ingratiate herself with the trainer and outdo the others. She herself is the only one on the team that does not have an eating disorder .

Sophie repeatedly tests whether she can trust Paul. At the second session she appears soaked in the rain and asks Paul to take off her wet clothes, which she cannot change for the dry clothes from Rosie that Paul has brought her because of her arms in plaster. Paul believes she wants to see if he'll cross that line because someone did that before and leaves it to his wife to help Sophie. He learns that Sophie had a sexual relationship with her trainer Si, whom she has known since she was a little girl. She says that she suffered from panic attacks during her parents' marital crisis, often stayed with Si's family and felt at home there. At some point Si fell in love with her and accused her of seducing him. Shortly before her accident, when Darlene was out of the house for six months, Sophie took care of the little daughter Dana, cooked for the family and slept next to Si in the marriage bed. Although he was aware of the illegal border crossing, he slept with her one night, and she felt as if she wasn't even there. Weeping, she tells how Darlene asked her after her return not to visit the family in the near future, because Dana had got used to them too much. Sophie is convinced that she destroyed the family, so Darlene wanted to get rid of them. The accident happened immediately afterwards.

The fourth session starts cheerfully, because Sophie has got rid of her bandages, is doing gymnastics again and has spent the night at a party. But her mood changes when she tells how she slept with a boy from the party and he remarked that she behaved during sex like someone who was abused . This triggered nightmarish images of the disintegration of their living environment as well as memories of the accident. Disturbed, she thinks she is a “freak” when she confesses that she intentionally drove in front of the car, feeling completely controlled in anticipation of absolute silence. Later she will equate death with freedom and the need to feel nothing. At the end of the session, she swallows several of Paul's sleeping pills in the bathroom next to the treatment room , which Paul thoughtlessly put in the closet. She collapses in front of his eyes and is hospitalized in time.

While Sophie idealizes her father, her mother, who mocks her as weak and stupid, cannot please her in anything. She thinks her father is the only person she likes besides her trainer; However, since the divorce he has taken little part in her life, is constantly busy with his work as a photographer and is unaware of her suicide attempt in Paul's practice. At Paul's request, Sophie reluctantly comes to the session afterwards with her mother. While she is concerned that the grueling training will harm her, Sophie demands his permission and threatens to really kill herself otherwise. Although Paul shows understanding for her mother, to her dismay and Sophie's triumph, he advocates her doing gymnastics. Pushed by Sophie to leave, her mother says goodbye in tears to wait in the car. Sophie, too, is surprised by Paul's opinion in view of her pill intake, but Paul considers the incident to be another test that has been passed and hopes that she trusts him now. He realizes that Sophie's longing for death is directed against the weaker side of her personality and that she finds strength in sport. The self-confident, controlled gymnast is, according to Paul, facing the impressionable young woman who does things against her will. But Sophie must also perceive the latter as part of herself. When her mother suddenly comes back and protests against Paul's decision, Sophie becomes angry, not least because of her intrusion into her therapy, and threatens that she will move in with her father. Alone with Sophie again, Paul defends her mother against her attacks, despite which she never gives up on Sophie. Sophie enters into an agreement that she can only come to therapy if she is no longer trying to commit suicide.

Although she doesn't think she has an eating disorder, Sophie regards food as her enemy. She justifies this with the diet that she has to keep for gymnastics. She has lost weight since resuming her exercise, but should be gaining weight. Paul realizes that there is more to this than she says she likes to be thin and light because it feels like she isn't really there and like she can slip away from her problems. At the same time, however, she feels her body is not developed normally. Her tendency to be thin is closely linked to her father's relationships with skinny, and, according to Sophie, also with bulemia photo models, about whom she expresses disparagingly. Sophie says her father likes her slim figure and claims that if she doesn't work out, she can get her a job as a model. She is very reluctant to talk about Paul's attempts to talk about an illustrated book with model photos of her father, which she discovered on his bookshelf and which she indirectly referred to him. Paul suspects that these nudes are related to a mental wound and that she is secretly very angry with her father.

Finally, Paul reveals the cause of Sophie's emotional injury: At the age of seven, she caught her father having sex with a model in her parents' bedroom. It was also commonplace for her to find nude models in her father's photo studio at home - in the absence of her mother. Sophie glosses over events as an artist's way of life. Since she never told her mother about it, she indirectly became her father's accomplice until she imagined a telepathic connection with him. She is furious that her mother allegedly failed to see the obvious. Paul suspects that Sophie was afraid that her report would destroy her parents' marriage, but hoped that her mother would find out about the affair and rid her of the secret. Sophie insinuates that Paul mistakenly believes her father sexually abused her. He denies this, but says that Sophie suffered as a child from the lack of demarcation between herself and the adult world and its sexuality. She was probably upset that her mother didn't protect her from it. The sport with its rules gave her an inner refuge. After he offered Sophie his practice as an alternative as a place where she could feel safe, gymnastics changed its meaning for Sophie.

In search of an explanation for the fact that her father left the family and that her depressed mother no longer took care of her properly, Sophie blamed herself as a child. Since then she has believed she was not normal. But Paul makes it clear to her that she is not responsible for the actions of her parents and only has power over her own actions. Sophie tries to talk to her mother and for the first time allows her anger at her father, whose calls she now ignores. As a result, he shows concern and adjusts her to practice before her last session without prior notice. He demands a conversation with Paul, in which he finds the blame for her changed behavior. Sophie decides to speak to him at the meeting. He tearfully defends himself against their accusation of never being there for her and explains how he looked after her until she was eleven. But he cannot give her a satisfactory answer, which is why he has not seen her for two and a half years and preferred his then new wife, who was against Sophie staying with them as she wished. Paul explains that Sophie expects him to fight for her. This accuses her father of coming and going as it suits him. She thinks Paul knows her better than he does and reveals that her accident was a suicide attempt. Sophie angrily dismisses him from therapy. Paul says Sophie has realized that she can determine when she wants to let her parents into her life and when not. Sophie wants to spend time with herself and continue her training in Denver without her parents or Paul . She hugs Paul goodbye and goes after her father to talk to him.

Jake and Amy

Date: Thursdays at 5 p.m.

Jake and Amy are the parents of a young son who gave up after years of trying to have a second child. Now career-conscious Amy has gotten pregnant after all, but not sure if she should keep the child. Jake, an unsuccessful musician, tries to force Paul to make the decision for her. He pressures and provokes Paul so much that he irritably gives in to Jake's taunts and advises an abortion . At the same moment he regrets this unprofessional and thoughtless remark and is insulted by Jake as a "murderer". When Amy suddenly starts bleeding during the second session and later miscarries , further discussions about a possible abortion are superfluous. However, couples therapy , in which either both or just one of them participate, brings to light more fundamental conflicts and their marriage is put at risk.

Paul and Gina (I)

Date: Fridays, 7 p.m.

Gina is Paul's former supervisor , with whom he had broken off contact for eight years before he visits her again. She is now sixty years old, retired and tries her hand at writing a novel. Paul gives her a spontaneous call after the first meeting with Jake and Amy to make an appointment. She receives him warmly, but wonders why Paul is coming to her of all places, since there have been differences between them in the past. Gina had spoken out against Paul's promotion to head of the institute they both worked at because she had doubts about his abilities as a therapist. Paul found this a humiliating interference in the way he worked and left the institute. That's why he didn't go to the funeral of Gina's husband, his work colleague, who died a year ago and from whose loss she suffers greatly. Past events repeatedly lead to tension during the meeting discussions. At the end of the first session, Gina says that she finds it disturbing to meet him after so long, as if nothing had happened, and Paul replies that he had the feeling that she saw his return as a triumph over him.

Paul gives the reason for his visit that he has not been patient with his patients for a long time. This week he especially had the feeling of losing control, reporting on Jakes and Alex's provocative behavior and also mentioning Laura's confession of love. He feels guilty about it and is looking for someone in Gina who can help him regain his inner calm. In addition, he is again in a midlife crisis . Suddenly he brings up his marital crisis as well. Gina soon finds out that his real problem is that he is attracted to Laura while his marriage to Kate threatens to fall apart.

At the beginning, Paul suppresses this idea and tries to present Laura's case of erotic transference as a purely professional problem, on which Gina is to advise him. He reacts indignantly to their attempts to see Laura and Kate as parts of the same problem and the suggestion to refer Laura to another therapist meets with the most violent resistance. He blames Gina for failing in a similar case when she gave up on a patient who was in love with her and whom she may have loved herself too. He never got over it. After he brought it up to Laura and she got angry, he accuses Gina of ruining Laura's therapeutic success. Gina replies that he is responsible for what he is doing and that she has the impression that by ending Laura's therapy he wanted to protect himself from her attraction, which suddenly threatened to grow beyond his head. Paul angrily rejects these and other interpretations of Gina and repeatedly accuses her of professional incompetence and an insistence on psychological theories.

Ultimately, however, he has to admit that he fantasizes about crossing the line between therapist and patient. However, there is no danger from this, since Laura's effect on him is merely a manageable occupational risk, comparable to the possible attraction that a patient might exert on her gynecologist. Gina is not reassured and points out to him that in this strange comparison he is conspicuously addressing the genitals. When asked to describe Laura, Paul describes her pretty smile, her shrewdness, her childlike nature, which makes you want to protect, and her sometimes poetic fascination with sex. Gina sees something in common between Laura's experiences with her depressed father and Paul's own experiences with his depressed mother. At the same time, Paul is likely to be shocked at the idea of ​​repeating the behavior of his father, who left the family because of one of his patients. Regarding his reaction to Kate's affair, of which he reports to Gina sadly and indignantly, Gina expresses the assumption that he may in truth not be quite that angry and is looking for a license for a relationship with Laura.

When Kate went on a short vacation with her lover, Paul begins to mentally play out a relationship with Laura after her therapy. Gina emphatically rejects such a possibility, because even after the end of therapy, Laura will always be a patient for Paul and she would be shocked if he actually responded to her wishes. Paul finally admits that he went to see Gina because he no longer trusts himself and is afraid to give in to his feelings for Laura. Because he loves her and wants to be with her. Gina promises Paul to be there for him.

At her own request, Kate accompanies her husband to several meetings in the hope that this could help their marriage. She gave up her affair while she was on vacation. Essential conflicts are actually worked out, but the conversations are very stressful for Kate and since she does not know how to save her marriage, she finally no longer comes to Gina. Kate feels patronized and analyzed by Paul like one of his patients. She regards his practice room as a hostile zone into which Paul withdraws for his work and excludes them. Since he neglects her and the children, he does not know what is going on in the family.

Second season

After his divorce from Kate, Paul opened a practice in New York City . In the 35 episodes of the season he treated his new patients Mia, April, Oliver, Bess, Luke and Walter for seven weeks. Every Friday he travels to Baltimore by train over the weekend to visit his children and see the psychotherapist Gina, with whom he is now starting therapy himself. He also meets his first love Tammy again, is for an alleged medical malpractice faced with a lawsuit that Alex's father strives against him.

Mia

Date: Mondays, 7 a.m.

The successful lawyer is a former patient who had been treated by Paul twenty years earlier. He had broken off the treatment at that time, in which Mia is looking to blame for her current life situation. From her point of view, Paul had recommended an abortion at the time so that she could devote herself fully to studying law. To this day she has remained childless and has not married, although that would be her dearest wish. Because she constantly gets involved with married men, this remains unattainable.

As treatment progresses, it becomes clear that the relationship with her father plays a crucial role in her problems. Mia has idealized him since childhood and thinks she can trust him on her own, as only he was there for her in her imagination - in contrast to her mother, who allegedly never wanted her because a child stood in the way of her career as a model. After being convinced of this view of her parents all her life, she learns from her mother that she was unable to look after her child because of postpartum depression . When she wanted to change that after her recovery, Mia had already developed a very strong bond with her father. Mia strains her relationship with her father when she confronts him about why he didn't help his wife out of the depression.

A pseudopregnancy and her new view of herself and her parents throw Mia into a depression. Since she always feels worse instead of better after talking to Paul, Mia wants to stop the treatment. But Paul succeeds in convincing her to continue the therapy in the last Monday session shown.

April

Date: Tuesdays at 12 noon

The young architecture student was diagnosed with advanced stage lymph node cancer, which she initially refuses to admit. Instead of starting the vital chemotherapy as soon as possible , she worries about her brother, who suffers from autism and has tried to kill himself several times. She doesn't want to ask her parents for help, which is why Paul - contrary to his beliefs - accompanies April to the hospital. When he suggests that someone else accompany him in the future, April first becomes aggressive, but is convinced by Paul, who has now told her mother about her clinical picture, that it is right to ask her mother for help.

Oliver

Date: Wednesdays, 4 p.m.

Oliver suffers from his parents' imminent divorce, which he does not want to admit, even though his father has already moved into his own apartment. Parents Luke and Bess, who sometimes take part in the meetings, argue about how their son should be brought up correctly and listen to each other about the other parent. While his mother worries that Oliver will not be properly cared for when he visits his father, his father wants him to be more independent and thinks that Bess is giving him too much to eat. Oliver is teased by other children because he is overweight .

Shortly before their separation, Oliver's parents had considered adopting a child. The plan was then abandoned without informing Oliver that he will not have a brother after all. This uncertainty worries Oliver, so that his parents talk to him about it on Paul's advice. When Bess goes on vacation, his father takes care of him, which is not without problems because Oliver tries to provoke him with his behavior. In the further course of the meetings, the parents distance themselves from their son. Desperate, he asks Paul to take him in, but Paul has to reject him.

Walter

Date: Thursdays at 5 p.m.

As CEO of a corporation, 68-year-old Walter is constantly under time and performance pressure. So far he has coped well with it according to his own statements, but for some time he has been suffering from inexplicable sleep disorders . A doctor consulted about sleeping pills suspected psychological causes in the form of an inner restlessness, which Paul should get to the bottom of.

Walter's company is currently embroiled in a contaminated baby food scandal; the media portray him as a scapegoat. As the father of three grown children, he cares for the baby of the family, his daughter Nathalie, who has recently started her third year of study in Rwanda to work as a development worker. Worried about an email from Nathalie, he wants to get her back and reacts indignantly when Paul thinks this is unnecessary. He has a panic attack and leaves the practice despite Paul's concerns.

Walter has been familiar with these panic attacks since childhood and does not attach any importance to them. It turns out to be related to the death of his older brother who drowned in a lake when Walter was six years old. His parents owed him an explanation for the sudden disappearance of his brother, which triggered his very first panic attack and a fear of the unexpected loss of other people around him. Walter blames himself for his brother's death, as he had informed him of his dangerous plan to jump off a cliff into the lake. When Walter travels to Rwanda to bring Nathalie home, she resents him. Paul says that Walter finds it difficult to let his daughter go her own way, for fear that she too might "disappear". After the death of his brother, Walter himself probably never cut himself off from his parents out of guilt.

The scandal surrounding the corporation finally leads to Walter's forced resignation after 35 years of working for the company. Although he believes that he responded responsibly to events, Walter feels guilty. Paul says that he speaks of his boss like a father he has let down. Walter feels closely connected to him since the death of his son. Now he thinks he is useless and Paul is concerned that Walter could kill himself with an overdose of his sleeping pills. But he replies that suicide would be irresponsible to his wife.

Two weeks later Walter actually tried to kill himself with sleeping pills. His wife and Nathalie, who is visiting, found him just in time. Paul visits Walter, who initially denies the suicide attempt, in the hospital. Annoyed, Walter finally admits that he could no longer stand his family's worries and believes he is a burden to them. The failure of the previous session due to the death of Paul's father prompted Walter to find out more about Paul, whereupon he came across Alex's father's lawsuit. He then says that Paul, like himself, has "blood on his hands". No one can relieve him of his guilt for the death of the children due to the poisoned food. Paul sees a chain of guilt in Walter's life - triggered by incidents ranging from the death of his brother and the son of his boss to the food scandal. Now Walter has imposed a "death penalty" on himself. Paul orders him to stay longer in the hospital against his will, as he wants to have him under surveillance because of the risk of another suicide attempt .

The following week Walter is still in the clinic, but is allowed to go to Paul for the meeting. He flatters him and belittles his condition in order to get him to stand up for his release. Paul realizes this, whereupon Walter describes how he could not cope with himself without his previous, active life and was plagued by thoughts of his guilt. Paul confronts him with the idea that since his brother's death he has probably filled his life with responsibility and work so much to compensate for his constant guilt that he has never met himself. Walter feels responsible even for his wife's previous addiction to alcohol and tablets . When Paul encourages him to take the chance at the clinic to find the little boy inside himself, he breaks down crying.

Walter is eventually released from the clinic. The emotional moment of the last session is uncomfortable for him. Walter tells of a recent dream in which he met his former boss in a garage and learned that the food scandal was not his fault. His boss asked Walter for forgiveness and offered him his former company position. But despite all his efforts, Walter could not answer him in the dream, as if he had forgotten how to speak. Paul interprets this as Walter's insight that he doesn't want to expose himself to the old stress again. Walter says that after his brother's death, his father would often go to the garage for alleged handicrafts, but that he caught him staring at a photo of the deceased. Walter, who had to take care of his grieving mother, says that he stopped being a child then - his father admonished not to cry in front of his mother. Paul believes that during that time Walter split off a part of himself that he now lacks to fulfill. Praise for taking responsibility for the lives of others has become his purpose in life, beginning with his father's appreciation for taking care of his mother. Walter thinks he's too old to reconnect with himself and take care of himself. But Paul can convince Walter to continue therapy in order to go this way.

Paul and Gina (II)

Date: Fridays, 6 p.m.

Paul visits Gina, who is now working as a therapist again, to inform her that Alex's father is suing him and that she will soon be consulted by his lawyer about an assessment of his abilities. The conversation is interrupted by Tammy, a patient of Gina and Paul's childhood sweetheart who has forgotten something in the room. Paul and his ex-girlfriend, who is now married, meet again by chance after a long time and have a brief affair a little later.

Since Paul finds himself standing in front of the ruins of his life after the events of the first season and his divorce, he persuades Gina to help him with therapy. In it he also works on the relationship with his father, whom he blames for the depression and later suicide of his mother, because he neglected the family and constantly had affairs. Paul's father is now Parkinson's disease and is dying in a nursing home. Paul, officially the contact person for his concerns, is furious about the financial responsibility he believes he has placed on him. He does not want to visit him and in an outburst of anger even wishes him dead. Gina points out to Paul that his father could not have triggered his mother's bipolar disorder , since bipolarity arises from a predisposition. Tammy remembers in a different way a day in her and Paul's youth when his mother tried to take her own life. Unlike Paul, who sees himself in the role of a child who, instead of his absent father, had to take responsibility for the family, especially his mother, Tammy thinks that he remembers that his father took care of the family that night. Gina suspects that parts of Paul's memories may have been falsified. Paul comes to the conclusion that his father possibly abandoned his mother because he could not cure her and therefore felt like a failure as a doctor. He begins to take a more understanding and forgiving attitude towards him and wants to talk to him.

After the death of his father, Paul learned new, positive details from his life at the funeral that made him wonder who his father actually was. He accuses himself of not getting to know him better, but of always only reproaching him. On his deathbed, he spoke to the unconscious man and apologized for not taking care of him anymore. While he was telling about his own problems, his father died. Paul therefore sees himself as a tearful egocentric who had nothing to say to his father except complaints about his own life. Gina thinks that the sick person may have unconsciously waited for him so that he could die in peace. Paul wanted to know if his father was proud of him; fearing that his father might love him even though he thinks he has hated him all his life, he delayed talking to him until it was too late to find out. After the divorce, he is concerned about losing contact with his children, just as he is with his father. Before the session, he asked Kate to give their relationship a second chance, but was confronted by her with the news that she had meanwhile fallen in love with someone else.

Immediately after his meeting with Gina, Paul has an appointment with Alex's father. This requires a written confession of his sole guilt for the death of Alex, which should only give him satisfaction, but without wanting to use it against Paul. In return, he will drop the lawsuit. Paul decides to write the letter and brings it to Gina to review when they next meet. She considers Paul's admission of guilt to be a great risk in the legal dispute, but Paul is not afraid of the consequences and is even thinking of giving up his job as he does not believe he will be of any help to his patients. Instead, he is considering working as a life coach because he will then be able to give specific advice. He gets into an argument with Gina when he accuses Gina of withholding her true, namely bad, opinion about him and his work. Gina replies irritably that she thinks he is an "asshole" because of his behavior towards her and is convinced that he feels comfortable in the role of someone who has been treated unfairly by authorities, as he has been familiar with it since childhood. He projected the disappointment in his parents on them. Although he constantly feels the desire to tear down the boundaries between therapist and patient, Paul is a good therapist due to his high empathy . When things have settled down again, Gina responds compassionately to Paul's mention of Walter's suicide attempt and encourages him to continue doing his work. She keeps the letter for him.

The next time Paul visits Gina, he has decided not to send the letter - encouraged by his daughter Rosie, who thinks he is a good person and thinks he is confessing to something for which he is not to blame. Now he is waiting for news from his lawyer about the outcome of the court hearing . During the meeting, the latter informed him by telephone that the judge had dismissed the complaint. After all the pressure, Paul can't really realize that he is now allowed to continue working in his profession. He describes his therapeutic successes over the course of the week and is surprised by his understanding for April's decision to end her therapy with him, although otherwise he always wants to help everyone. Now he sees himself in the role of a brief companion for his patients during a time of crisis, who, however, cannot decipher their lives for them. Paul would like to end therapy with Gina and break away from her after treating her like a kind of surrogate mother and everything that he didn't like about himself for all the years since he adored her as a brilliant therapist during his time as a doctoral student she projected. Paul wants to live and no longer analyze himself. Gina thinks Paul's exit is the wrong time, but he is determined. He wants to surround himself with people and continue to work as a therapist, but does not yet know in what form. Gina suggests that he work as a supervisor for young therapists. Paul tells how he had an animated conversation with a strange woman about one of his favorite books, a book about salvation. He might see her again. Paul pays Gina his appreciation as a therapist, who has helped him a lot, and leaves her. She wishes him all the best for the future.

Third season

Unlike the previous two seasons, a narrated week in this season consists of only four episodes. Of these, three are devoted to Paul's sessions with his patients Sunil, Frances and Jesse, the fourth is about Paul's regular visits to his new therapist Adele. The season comprises 28 episodes and seven narrated weeks.

Variations in structure

The series is characterized by a clear structure in its structure, but the scheme is broken up occasionally and in different ways. For some episodes, the usual person constellations change, the main scene “Praxis” is replaced by other locations, the main conversations do not take place during meetings, the action takes place at times that deviate from the model, days are left out in the narrative or several in summarized in a sequence:

In three episodes of the first season (1.25, 1.30 and 1.35) Paul's wife accompanies her husband to the meeting with Gina; the conversation between Laura and Paul in one of the episodes (1.26) in his practice is private after she has previously ended the treatment; the following Monday episode (1.31) replaces Laura's session with a conversation between Paul and his children about Laura and his marriage; in the following Monday episode (1.36), which takes place at 10 o'clock, Alex is buried and Paul and Laura's comparatively short conversation takes place in the cemetery; in the next Tuesday episode (1.37), Alex's father comes to Paul's practice; in the fifth Sophie episode (1.23) her mother, in the last episode (1.41) her father takes part in the meeting; The very last episode of the season (1.43) takes place mostly in Laura's apartment and deals with a conversation between Paul and Laura, while the actual Friday conversation between Paul and Gina only lasts a few minutes at the end of the episode. Week nine starts with a Wednesday; the series does not show Monday and Tuesday.

The first episode of the second season (2.01) plays exceptionally at 9 o'clock and at Mia's workplace, a law firm; the conversation between Paul and Walter after his suicide attempt (2.24) takes place later than usual in the hospital; several sessions start late or have been postponed (2.11, 2.12, 2.14). One episode (2.20) shows several time leaps : Delimited by subheadings, various events during the Friday of the fourth week (including the conversation with Gina), but also Paul's visit to his dying father in the hospital on the following Monday evening, are summarized. The new week that started with it is not told any more, since Paul, to see his father and after his death, cancels all appointments with his patients.

occupation

main characters

Role name actor Leading role
( season & episode )
Voice actor
Dr. Paul Weston Gabriel Byrne 1.01-3.28 Eberhard Haar
Gina Dianne Wiest 1.04-2.35 Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Laura Melissa George 1.01-1.43 Tanja Geke
Alex Blair Underwood 1.02-1.32 Charles Rettinghaus
Sophie Mia Wasikowska 1.03-1.41 Adak Azdasht
Amy Embeth Davidtz 1.04-1.42 Silvia Missbach
Jake Josh Charles 1.04-1.42 Markus Pfeiffer
Mia Hope Davis 2.01-2.31 Sabine Falkenberg
April Alison Pill 2.02-2.32 Marie-Luise Schramm
Oliver Aaron Grady Shaw 2.03-2.33 Lukas Schust
Walter John Mahoney 2.04-2.34 Ernst Meincke
hatch Russell Hornsby 2.03-2.33 Jörg Hengstler
Bess Sherri hem 2.03-2.33 Claudia Urbschat-Mingues
Sunil Irrfan Khan 3.01-3.25
Frances Debra Winger 3.02-3.26
Jesse Dane DeHaan 3.03-3.27
Adele Amy Ryan 3.04-3.28

Minor characters

Role name actor Supporting role
( season & episode )
Voice actor
Kate Weston Michelle Forbes 1.03-1.43, 2.10, 2.25 Sabine Arnhold
Rosie Weston Mae Whitman 1.26-1.41, 2.09, 3.14 Marie-Luise Schramm
Ian Weston Jake Richardson 1.31
Max Weston Max Burkholder 1.03, 2.13
Alex Wolff 3.04-3.19
Alex Prince Sr. Glynn Turman 1.36, 1.37, 2.01, 2.25 Klaus Sunshine
Zack, Sophie's father Peter Horton 1.41
Olivia, Sophie's mother Julia Campbell 1.23, 1.38 Christin Marquitan
Tammy Meswick Laila Robins 2.05-2.20 Sabine Jaeger

Broadcast concepts

United States

HBO experimented with different broadcast concepts for the first broadcasts of the three previously produced seasons. The broadcaster was not able to record an audience rate that was good for its own standards.

For the first season, HBO took over BeTipul's unusual broadcasting concept and broadcast one of the episodes in the evening program every day from Monday to Friday for nine weeks. The episodes, the action of which takes place on a Monday, were also broadcast on a Monday and the same was done with the other days of the week. In addition, like the Israeli model, the station played with the other possibilities offered by the series' narrative structure. Every Monday, the episodes of the upcoming week were offered before the regular first broadcast on the main channel on HBO On Demand and HBO Signature broadcast each episode as repeats on the day of the week at the time specified by the action (e.g. the Alex - Always follow Tuesdays at 10 a.m., the Sophie episodes on Wednesdays at 4 p.m.). On the weekends, all episodes of the respective week were shown again in the block on the two main channels HBO and HBO 2, and the episode from the same day of the previous week was repeated directly before a new episode. According to HBO program planner David Baldwin, the broadcaster deliberately offered its subscribers the widest possible range of reception options in order to do justice to the “special series” by means of a “special broadcast strategy” and at the same time enable them to “watch until the end of the series stay". The new series format and the seemingly complicated broadcasting concept caused astonishment in the media and in Internet forums when they were announced.

For the first broadcasts of the second and third seasons, however , HBO changed its broadcasting concept in favor of a broadcasting rhythm that was no longer oriented towards the narrative structure of the series. The second season was bundled into blocks of two episodes each on Sundays and three episodes on Mondays in the late evening program, while the third season was broadcast in double episodes on Monday and Tuesday evenings. Sue Naegle of HBO justified the new schedule for the second season with the fact that most viewers would have watched several episodes in a row in the first season in order to really immerse themselves in the story. It was probably difficult for them to get involved in the series five days a week.

German-speaking area

The German-speaking television stations also opted for different broadcasting concepts. Some were based on the American model for the first season with an episode broadcast daily on the corresponding day of the week, others not.

Premiere Serie, for example, stuck to the German-language first broadcast of the first 15 episodes of season one, the FOX Channel , whichreplacedthe Premiere series and showed the remaining episodes of the season, only deviated from it at the end and took into account the two days left out in the narrative ( Monday and Tuesday) of the ninth week not: The Wednesday episode was shown on a Monday, the Thursday episode on Tuesday and the Friday episode on Wednesday, so that the days of the week of action and broadcast no longer corresponded for these three days. ORF 2 and SF Zwei adhered to the concept for the Austrian and Swiss first broadcasts on free TV insofar as they broadcast the episodes in the late evening program of the corresponding day or in the subsequent night program, with the exception that SF two like FOX the ignored the omitted days of the ninth week. For the German first broadcast on free TV, 3sat selecteda completely different channel rhythm and broadcast the first 20 episodes over a period of two weeks (Monday to Friday) every evening in double episodes. The remaining 23 episodes then ran only once a week on Wednesdays as double episodes, or the last as a block of three episodes. Just as HBO had broadcast it, the season was shown for the first time on German free TV on ZDF neo (episodes late in the evening on the corresponding day or in the night program).

Season two was broadcast by 3sat in German for the first time with one episode per week.

Comparison with BeTipul

The first two seasons of In Treatment are based directly on the two seasons of the Israeli television series BeTipul (2005-2008) developed by producer, director and screenwriter Hagai Levi . Only the third season is based on own ideas. As the first Israeli television production ever to be adapted for the American market , BeTipul is considered a great success in Israel. Co- executive producer Noa Tishby , an Israeli actress from Los Angeles , met BeTipul while visiting family in Tel Aviv while the first season was airing. She found Hagai Levi and received approval to present the series in the US to her manager Stephen Levinson, who then successfully offered it to the television network HBO . Both Levi and Levinson then acted as executive producers in the production. The series title “In Treatment” is the English equivalent of the Hebrew “BeTipul” (בטיפול, in German “In Treatment”).

First season

The story and characters were essentially taken over for the remake produced by HBO , the dialogues were translated almost one-to-one from Hebrew into English. While the Israeli writers received credits for the underlying material, the adapting American writers received credits for the script . The theme melody by Avi Belleli is also the same, but in a greatly shortened version with a much tighter opening credits . The original broadcast structure was also retained for the first season (→ broadcast concepts ).

But despite the identical layout of the series, there are various differences in detail. Substantive differences are partly adapting the story to the venue due to United States with its different cultural and social realities: The fighter pilot Yadin from BeTipul , the Alex from In Treatment corresponds, has in its use Palestinian killed children while Alex an Islamic religious school in Iraq bombed; his father is not an African-American civil rights activist who was exposed to racism , but a Holocaust survivor. Blair Underwood was already hired for the role of Alex when his character was redesigned several times. The first episodes on Michael and Orna, a couple from BeTipul, deal with planning Orna's request for an abortion approval , which she must justify before a committee prescribed by Israeli law. Since such a committee is not enshrined in US abortion law, this aspect is missing in the story of the couple Jake and Amy.

On the one hand, individual episodes of BeTipul were not included in the plot of the last three weeks of the first season of In Treatment , on the other hand episodes were also newly developed. This results in a different number of 43 instead of 45 episodes for the first season of the American version.

The external appearance of the rooms and people in In Treatment is more glamorous: The American therapist's clothes, for example, are less shabby, he himself is physically fitter and, unlike Dagans, his practice furnishings make a luxurious, stylish and inviting impression.

For the first season, the American series had a budget that was three times higher than that of the Israeli series.

Second season

In Treatment introduces new characters with Oliver and his parents Bess and Luke , while BeTipul continues the case of Orna and Michael from the first season ( In Treatment : Jake and Amy) and puts their son Itay at the center of the action.

The figure Efi in BeTipul , corresponding to Walter , does not attempt suicide. Instead, from the fifth week onwards, the season deals with Efi's daughter and her relationship with her father, which gives her a much more important role than in In Treatment . Screenwriter and showrunner Warren Leight justified the modified plot in In Treatment with the fact that he thought the introduction of a new character at this point was a fraud in the story, because he thought Efi had headed towards a suicide attempt, which the Israeli writers probably had circumvented want.

In the last April episode, Sophie from the first season is tied in with April telling Paul about a post Sophie's read on the Internet. Sophie thanks Paul for the therapy. The idea of ​​connecting the two characters, which is not produced in this direct form in BeTipul , came from screenplay assistant John Haller, who saw parallels between Sophie and April.

Corresponding figures from the two series

BeTipul In treatment
Reuven Dagan Paul Weston
Gila Gina
Naama Laura
Yadin Alex
Ayala Sophie
Michael Jake / Luke
Orna Amy / Bess
Yael Dagan Kate Weston
Menachem Yerushalmi Alex Prince Sr.
Talia Mia
Itay Oliver
Efi Walter
iris April
Tami Tammy

Charisma

United States

On 28 January 2008, the broadcast Pay TV transmitter HBO the very first episode of In Treatment . Until March 28, 2008, the first season of the series ran there five times a week. The second season aired between April 5 and May 25, 2009, and the third between October 25 and December 7, 2010.

German-speaking area

In German-language premiere the first 15 episodes of the first season between September 15 and October 3, 2008 were in the pay-TV transmitter series premiere aired. Since the Premiere series was replaced by the broadcaster FOX Channel at the time , the season did not run until the end, but started again on November 3, 2008 on FOX, where it was completely broadcast until December 31, 2008.

Germany

3sat showed the first season on German free TV between February 15 and May 12, 2010. From February 21 to November 21, 2011, the second season was broadcast in German for the first time on 3sat.

Switzerland

In Switzerland, the first season was shown as a German-language free TV broadcast between July 6 and September 3, 2009 on the SF Zwei channel .

Austria

In Austria, the first season was shown from July 7th to September 5th, 2009 on the free TV channel ORF 2 .

Episode list

DVD release

In the United States, the first season was released on DVD on March 24, 2009, the second on October 12, 2010 and the third on October 4, 2011. The series has already been released in other countries, including on DVDs with the for Western and Central Europe valid regional code 2. A publication with German dubbing or with German subtitles does not yet exist.

evaluation

Press review

Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times thought the series was worth seeing “just because of the level of acting”, found it “cleverly thought out” and well written, but in places also untrustworthy or “theatrical”.

Varietys Brian Lowry found the series "structurally more interesting than the implementation".

Troy Patterson ( Slate ) was bored and annoyed by the "chatter" and predicted "headaches" among the audience. He considered the presentation of the therapy "hardly credible" and feared Paul Weston's license to be a therapist in real life.

The New York Times praised: “[The series] 'In Treatment' […] is hypnotic, mainly because it withholds information as intelligently as it reveals. [...] The half-hour episodes are addicting and few viewers are likely to be satisfied with just one session at a time. [...] In Treatment provides an irresistible, stealthy look at the psychopathology of everyday life - at someone else's expense. "

Christian Buß from Spiegel Online considers “the grandiose US series” to be more than “a classic soul thriller that leads us down into the abysses and fears of patients”; it is also a “reflection on the society being treated”. He says: "The psychologist as a therapeutic case of hardship: That is perhaps the most daring twist in the ambiguous US series 'In Treatment', with which the possibilities and limitations of the modern soul interpretation trade are demonstrated."

Awards and nominations

In Treatment was proposed or awarded with film and television awards in various categories. The following list contains a selection of the most important awards and nominations.

Won

Nominated

Soundtrack album

On February 15, 2011 a selection of the original series music by Richard Marvin was released as a download album In Treatment - Season One and Two . The album was released on the Lakeshore Records label of the film production company Lakeshore Entertainment .

Title List:

  1. Walter - Week 4 - Season 2
  2. Sophie (theme) - Week 2 - Season 1
  3. Oliver - Week 1 - Season 2
  4. Jake & Amy (theme) - Week 1 - Season 1
  5. Laura - Week 3 - Season 1
  6. Oliver - Week 2 - Season 2
  7. Gina - Week 1 - Season 1
  8. Gina - Week 6 - Season 2
  9. Mia - Week 6 - Season 2
  10. Laura - Week 5 - Season 1
  11. April - Week 2 - Season 2
  12. Gina - Week 3 - Season 2
  13. Oliver - Week 4 - Season 2
  14. Mia - Week 1 - Season 2
  15. Oliver - Week 4 - Season 2
  16. Gina - Week 6 - Season 1
  17. Gina - Week 5 - Season 2
  18. Paul Follows Laura - Week 9 - Season 1
  19. Gina - Week 1 - Season 2
  20. Oliver - Week 2 - Season 2

Web links

Individual evidence

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  17. Israel . On: www.un.org (United Nations). Abortion Policies. A global review. Retrieved January 25, 2011.
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  21. ^ 'Treatment' cures the rerun blues Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2008
  22. ^ In Treatment Brian Lowry, Variety, Jan. 18, 2008
  23. Crazy Talk Troy Patterson, Slate, Jan. 28, 2008
  24. Four Days, a Therapist; Fifth Day, a Patient Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times, Jan. 28, 2008
  25. Christian Buß : Don't forget to clean your soul! . On: Spiegel Online , February 15, 2010. (Accessed October 26, 2010)
  26. ^ Awards for "In Treatment - The Therapist" . The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 7, 2011.
  27. Upcoming Lakeshore Soundtrack- Winter / Spring 2011! In: Lakeshore Records Facebook page. February 3, 2011, accessed September 20, 2013 .
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