"Christopher Hampton's new play The Talking Cure deals with the early years of C. G. Jung and his decision to experiment, using Freud's controversial new method of psychoanalysis, with a young Russian patient, Sabina Spielrein. The success of the experiment and the blossoming of his relationship with Sabina inauguarates, haunts and ultimately poisons Jung's friendship with Freud; and the ideas and conflicts which engulf the three of them embody, as Jung comes to realize, the destructive forces which are to overwhelm the disastrous century ahead"--Jacket.