Freud: The Secret Passion

“Alone he fought against his own dark passions...”

In Vienna, Sigmund Freud (Montgomery Clift) is a neurologist treating patients diagnosed with hysteria, and he begins to use hypnosis, a method his colleagues regard with suspicion. John Huston follows him alongside Dr. Joseph Breuer (Larry Parks) and into the case of Cecily Koertner (Susannah York), whose illness will not yield to anything they try. Freud is staking his career on the technique, and with it his standing among the doctors around him.