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Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian is a 2013 French drama film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. Jimmy P. stars Benicio del Toro as title character Jimmy Picard, a Blackfoot Native American who has returned to Montana from World War II and suffers debilitating symptoms.
Sep 11, 2013 · Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian: Directed by Arnaud Desplechin. With Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Thrush, Gary Farmer, Larry Pine. A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering.
May 18, 2013 · The prosaic, marquee-challenging title tells mostly all in the case of “ Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian),” Arnaud Desplechin ’s profoundly Freudian study of loss and healing in...
May 18, 2013 · An American story that only the French could make, Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian cries out for its own niche, one it will hopefully find beyond festival appreciation.
At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian. A Blackfoot Indian whose skull was fractured in World War II forms a bond with a bold French psychoanalyst trying to cure his emotional battle scars.
Adapted from the 1951 non-fiction account by psychoanalyst Georges Devereux, the film follows the true story of Picard, a Plains Indian of the Blackfeet nation, who underwent psychotherapy with Devereux as he returned from WWII and began experiencing unexplainable symptoms shortly thereafter.
