Psychology for scriptwriters. Building a conflict in the plot

Quote: “The purpose of this book is to offer you some psychologically recognizable and convincing formulas and explain how to apply them, so that you get the story that you wanted to write.” William Indic
What is the book Psychology for Screenwriters: Building a Conflict in the plot
Work on the script, like all creativity, for the most part occurs according to a hunch, and many professionals of cinema believe that artistic freedom and analysis are incompatible. William Indik categorically disagrees with this. Analyzing the theory of psychoanalysis - from Sigmund Freud and Eric Erickson to Morin Murdok and Rollo May, the author reinforces the concept of famous scientists with examples from famous films with their eternal topics: love and sex, death and destruction, fear and anger, revenge and hatred.
Considering the motives, underlying desires, complexes driving heroes, Indic evaluates the victories and miscalculations of the authors, which ultimately cannot be hidden from the viewer. After all, the viewer empathizes with the hero, identifies himself with him, passes the path of transformation with him and reaches catharsis.
Why the book Psychology for the Screenwriters worthy of reading
It doesn’t matter if you turned to a book for solving a particular issue or simply want to expand your knowledge of how to write a script, or about cinema in general, in any case you will find many interesting ideas here. The ingenious theories of scientists analyzed in this book are a real source of wisdom. Perhaps, while reading you will fall on a stream of new ideas for screenwriters and directors. Or you will be overwhelmed by the hosts of various symbols and unconscious images when working on the script in the process of filming or simply during a film examination.
Open this stream of unconscious images and ideas. The best thing this book can do for you is to reveal to you your own world of the unconscious, because it is there that fantasies, dreams and films are born there.
For whom this book: a valuable practical manual for filmmakers - scriptwriters, directors, students, film critics. At the end of each chapter, the thesis of the chapter, exercises and recommendations for your plot are contained. An exciting reading for all lovers of cinema and those who are interested in psychology.
Who is the author: William Indica - professor of psychology, screenwriter, writer, scenario consultant. The author of several books. He teaches at Dowling College, New York, where he conducts courses “Psychology in the Cinema”, “Problems of Identity in the Cinema”, “Achieving personal integrity”. In 2001, he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology of Development at the University of Cornell