Psychology for Screenwriters: Building Conflict in Your Script FROM THE PUBLISHER
To make their stories come alive, screenwriters must understand human behavior. Using this book, writers can make Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Erick Erikson, and Joseph Campbell their writing partners. Psychology for Screenwriters helps scribes craft psychologically resonant characters and conflict. You'll learn to create convincing motivation, believable identity development, and archetypes that produce authentic screen moments.
SYNOPSIS
This guide is based on the premise that screenwriters must understand human behavior to create believable characters. Indick, who is a screenwriter and author as well as a psychology professor (Dowling College), focuses on the theories of Freud, Erickson, Jung, Campbell, Adler and May. In explicating these theories, Indick employs a full cast of film characters whom he finds emblematic of various psychological conflicts. Each chapter contains exercises to help readers understand the analytic approaches and to apply them to their own scripts. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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