Psychology for Screenwriters

Screenwriters must understand human behavior to make their stories come alive. Why not employ psychology masters Freud, Jung, and Campbell as your writing partners? "Psychology for Screenwriters" applies the collective wisdom of theses theorists to screenwriting, helping you create psychologically resonant characters and conflict in your script. You can learn character motivation, identity development, and archetypes from Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Erik Erikson, Joseph Campbell, and more. The theories of personality and psychoanalysis are clearly described, with simple guidelines, thought-provoking exercises, vivid film images and hundreds of examples from classic movies. You can learn the fundamental psychological models and how to apply them to your screenplays to make your characters come to life and learn how to write and reflect real human drama. You can tap into the theories of Freud, Erikson, Jung, Campbell, Adler and Rollo. It is written by a professional screenwriter, author and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Dowling College.