i rent this dvd have see it while look for something else . when i saw the title on the jacket i couldn not believe my eye . i read yalom book about a year ago and love it and in fact admire yalom work in general . ( i be a clinical psychologist . ) i have watch perhaps 30 minute of this movie and have have to turn it off . i be not sure if i can take much more . at a superficial level and the faux accent and a others have comment and be simply distract at best and irritate and vapid at bad . the acting be dull when it should be passionate and comical when it should be serious . the portrayal of lou salome be simply flippant and and the brilliant freud come off as little more than a schoolboy . i see very little of the book spirit convey thus far . i have hop to be able to recommend this film to my student . instead and i will refer them to the book . imagine that .