The psychology of screenwriting: theory and practice

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Acknowledgements 1. The Psychology of Identity 1.1 Introduction/1.2 Ban the Script?/1.3 Identity, History and Psychology/1.4 Inferiority Complex/1.5 Back to Basics - ideology/1.6 Evil and Knowledge 2. The Psychology of Practice 2.1 Finding your Intention/2.2 The Psychology of Obstacles/2.3 The Psychology of Treatments/2.4 The Psychology of Format/2.5 The Psychology of Ideas 3. The Psychology of Character 3.1 Names/3.2 The Goodness of Evil/3.3 Myth and Psychology/3.4 The Psychology of Mirroring/3.5 The Psychology of Self/Limit/3.6 The Psychology of Machines/3.7 The Psychology of the Enneagram/3.8 The Psychology of Instinct/3.9 Scene and Structure 4. The Psychology of Dialogue 5. Individuation 5.1 The Timing of the Secret/5.2 Break a Few Rules and Home/5.3 Fundamentals/5.4 Intertexuality and the Reader/5.5 Theme/5.6 Adaptation/5.7 Writing Voiceovers/5.8 Whose Voice? 6. Conclusions 6.1 The Psychology of Story/6.2 Chekhov's Gun/6.3 The Psychology of Freedom/6.4 The Psychology of the Non-self/6.5 Genre/6.6 Editing and the Rewrite/6.7 The How and the Why/6.8 Mediated Fate Endnotes Select Bibliography Index