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Psychiatrist/psychoanalyst Dr. Lilian Steiner tells her neighbor, "I’m with a patient..." (0:03)

Lilian tells patient Pierre Hallan, "Quit smoking." 
Pierre: ”... a pretext to undergo psychoanalysis. I underwent psychoanalysis but never stopped smoking... I saw a hypnotist.” 
Lilian: “... You’ll free associate better.”
Pierre: "... into alternative medicine... he quit smoking...” (0:04)

Lilian listens to voicemail from Valérie Cohen-Solal, the daughter of her patient Paula, referring to Paula, "... She’s passed away..." (0:07)

Shiva for Paula
Woman, referring to Paula’s husband Simon: “He fainted.” 
Simon regains consciousness. He says, “How kind.”
Lilian: ”... I was treating your wife...” (0:08)

Lilian dictates: "... redirected guilt towards a therapist and unprocessed emotion..." (0:10)

Lilian asks her ophthalmologist ex-husband Gabriel Haddad, "... eye drops or placebo for me?" 
Lilian: ”... have patients...” (0:15)

Lilian tells Valérie, "... I have a patient..." (0:16)

Valérie asks Lilian, referring to Paula, "Know how she killed herself?" 
Lilian: ”I had no idea it was a suicide.” 
Valérie: ”She swallowed everything you prescribed.” 
Lilian: ”... I have a patient.” 
”... I cannot disclose anything Paula told me... doctor-patient confidentiality.” 
”... How did the funeral go?” 
Valérie: ”It’s the law with suicides..." (0:17)

Lilian in sessions of psychoanalysis (0:19)

Recording of Pierre: "... I saw a hypnotist... He quit smoking..." (0:21)

Sign: "Jessica Grangé Ericksonian Hypnotherapy" (0:21)

Lilian tells hypnotist Grangé, "I’m a shrink. If I were depressed...”
Grangé: “... You’re in mourning, very deep mourning...” 
Lilian: ”I just lost a patient... a patient died. She was a patient...” 
Grangé: ”... a memory-based therapy...” 
Lilian: “Not like shrinks?” 
Grangé hypnotizes Lilian using suggestion. 
”... stop confusing skepticism and intelligence...” 
Lilian: ”... It’s Paula, Paula Cohen-Solal, my patient...” 
”... we love each other, madly... She is very anxious...” 
Grangé: ”... you fell in love with your patient?” 
”... Don’t worry... Freud stopped hypnosis...” (0:21)

Burial of Paula in a cemetery (0:31)

Lilian in sessions of psychoanalysis (0:33)

In psychoanalysis, Paula tells Lilian referring to Simon, "... He became crazed..." 
”... It could trigger a crisis, terrifying crises... It could trigger a crisis, terrifying crises...” (0:34)

Her colleague(?) Vera tells Lilian, "Aggressivity toward the mother...”
”... during a psychotic episode... psychic transference...”
”Her psychosis predated her pregnancy..." (0:35)

Gabriel tells Lilian, "I’m a creature of habit." 
Lilian: ”It concerns my patient.” 
”My patient.”
”My patient who committed suicide.” 
”I never detected the slightest suicidal thought...” 
”My patient...” 
”... instinctively, I’d say... She is borderline. A decompensated personality disorder...” (0:37)

Lilian asks Gabriel, "Did you ever see a hypnotist?" 
Gabriel: ”Did you ever see a hypnotist?” (0:40)

A police officer tells Lilian, "... filing a report for stalking..." 
Lilian: ”... it wasn’t suicide... her mother’s death...” 
Officer: ”I have hyperosmia.” 
”... I’m curious when you drank last.”
Lilian: “Hyperosmia...” 
”... Doctor-patient confidentiality.” 
”Psychiatrist.” (0:45)

Lilian answers Gabriel, "No, psychiatrist..." (0:48)

Lilian tells Gabriel, referring to Paula, "She didn’t even take her prescription. She’s not in a manic state..." 
Gabriel: ”You wanted to knock her out.” (0:54)

Lilian tells a pharmacist, "... the psychiatrist who treated Paula..." 
Pharmacist Nadia tells Lilian, ”... pills to drops for chronic insomnia...” 
Lilian: "... only prescribed pills...” 
"... who picked up the medicine." 
Nadia: ”... picked up her prescriptions... her medicine.” 
Nadia: ”We deciphered the prescription... A family member had died.” (0:55)

Gabriel asks Lilian, "... after his wife dies?" (0:57)

By telephone, Lilian tells Grangé, "Listen, don’t be proud." (1:00)

Poster: “... friend of Winnicott”
Her colleague Dr. Goldstein tells Lilian, "... you’re suffering from guilt about this patient... from this false memory... heal your patients. Instead, your medication killed her... the prescription..." 
"... psychoanalysts aren’t allowed to prescribe." 
Lilian: ”... struggling with insomnia.” 
”... I’m fully licensed to prescribe...” 
Goldstein: ”... on a trip with your hypnotist... your mother died.” 
Lilian: ”... I’m not your patient anymore...” (1:01)

Gabriel tells Lilian, "... I’m worried..." (1:10)

By telephone, Pierre’s wife tells Lilian, "He saw a hypnotist once and quit." (1:11)

Her son Julien tells Lilian, "Stop the shrink talk." 
”... my protracted anal stage.” 
”You’re freaking me out.” 
Julien’s wife Vanessa: ”You’re being mean, Julien.” (1:12)

Gabriel tells Lilian, "You’re so vain. You’re plastered..." 
Lilian: ”I drive better when I’m drunk.” (1:16)

Lilian: "Gabriel, I know it seems crazy... You don’t have to believe in hypnosis..." 
Gabriel: ”... if you’ve gone mad, if I should worry...” (1:17)

Lilian tells Gabriel, "... I’m crazy..." (1:20)

Simon tells Gabriel, "... Crazy..." (1:22)

Lilian tells the boy, "I’m in your dream...” 
”... I’ll go back into your dream...” (1:23)

Gabriel asks Lilian, "... have your medical license revoked?" 
Referring to smoking: ”I quit.” (1:24)

Paula asks Lilian, "Do patients ever fall asleep?" 
”... I may seem lacking in modesty... you’re impatient...” (1:29)

Simon tells Lilian, ”I’m not your patient...” 
Lilian: ”... You’re protected by doctor-patient confidentiality...” 
Simon: ”... tampered with the prescription?” 
”Do you think your patients tell you everything?...” 
”... We lost her together...” (1:31)

Paula tells Lilian, referring to her aunt, "... I lost my Perle.”
”I lost my Perle." 
Paula laces a drink and hands it to Perle. (1:36)

Lilian tells Gabriel, "No, you’re not that smart." (1:40)