A session on the couch of a 60-year-old analyst has become essential viewing for the French, who are flocking to an austere television series that has touched a nerve in the national psyche.
The charismatic Philippe Dayan is played by Frédéric Pierrot in En Thérapie, a French version of an Israeli series, Be Tipul, or In Treatment. He is credited with calming anxiety and inspiring a rush to analysis.
The surprise hit on Arte, the Franco-German channel that is similar to BBC Four, is set after the November 2015 terrorist massacres in the Bataclan concert hall and Paris cafés. A police officer who stormed the Bataclan and a surgeon who tended the wounded are among the five characters who unburden themselves to Dayan.
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