Giordio
- unique,
- grandiose,
- attractive and fatal,
- seductive,
- indifferent and cruel,
- amazing,
- unforgettable.
Tony
- suffers
- jealous
- afraid of losing and
- can't forget him.
Why?
How he does it?
Is it love, codependency or a toxic relationship? If it's love, then why doesn't it rest?
How does a woman feel next to a man-king?
Emotional swing. So good above and so bad below.
You can live a lifetime with one married couple in one and a half by watching this movie.
It is simply invaluable for film therapy — one of the types of group art therapy, which makes it possible to examine in detail:
- signs of a narcissistic personality,
- the nature of relationships in a narcissistic family,
- mechanism of narcissistic injury,
- its consequences that you may have to treat in clients.
Movie "My King" roi", France, 2015) clearly demonstrates narcissism in marital and romantic relationships. You will see exactly how and why spouses and romantic partners are attracted to narcissistic individuals and all stages of relationships with them. And one of the possible options for developing relationships with them is marriage. You can imagine how you can work with clients with narcissistic accentuation or personality disorder.
The plot is simple and unpretentious at first glance.
The heroine, named Toni, meets an unusually interesting and attractive man, Giorgio (played by Vincent Cassel), and this is how their whirlwind romance begins. At first she feels amazing next to him. Since then, all ten years of their life together have become like a real roller coaster.
What is this, love, happiness, passion, destiny? And who is this person who evokes a storm of opposite emotions in her, a man-king with whom it is so difficult to be, from whom it is impossible to leave and who is so difficult to forget… What will Tony choose — a calm life with peace of mind, or a life with a loved one on an "emotional swing" ", so exciting at first?
How will this couple's story end?
How will such a relationship with a loved one affect her?
Who will this film be useful for?
- for specialists — psychologists, psychotherapists, supervisors,
- for specialists in fields related to psychology (psychiatry, pedagogy, sociology),
- for students of psychologists, psychotherapists of final years,
- for people who have a narcissist spouse or partner, regardless of their gender.
What will you get from watching this film?
- you will be able to quickly identify narcissistic personalities among clients and people around you,
- learn to feel what a narcissist feels, think like a narcissist, but at the same time you will see narcissistic defenses,
- learn what passions underlie narcissism,
- learn the signs of toxic relationships and their dynamics,
- better understand how to communicate with these special people,
- increase your professional competencies,
- in an hour and a half of the film you will live your whole life in a narcissistic family and learn its characteristics,
- see narcissistic injury from the outside without suffering from it,
- understand how love addiction to a narcissist is formed in order to better understand your clients and their spouses,
- it will become easier to carry out difficult therapy and counseling for these clients, you will think about how to choose the appropriate areas of therapy and techniques.