En thérapie
Season 1
Paris, fall 2015. Every week, Philippe Dayan receives in his office a stone's throw from Place de la République, a surgeon in the throes of romantic disarray, a couple in crisis, a teenager with suicidal tendencies and a BRI agent traumatized by his intervention at the Bataclan. Listening to these upended lives, the emotional earthquake that unleashes within him is unprecedented. In an attempt to escape, he reconnects with his former analyst, Esther, with whom he had cut ties for nearly 12 years.
Where to Watch Season 1
35 Episodes
- Ariane – Monday November 16, 2015, 9 a.m.
E1Episode 1Ariane – Monday November 16, 2015, 9 a.m.A psychoanalysis office in the 11th arrondissement of Paris. Ariane, a young surgeon, has been Philippe Dayan's patient for a year. After the attacks, she found herself on the front line in the hospital and had a nightmarish weekend. However, today, she is not there only for that: she finally feels ready to share a heavy secret with her therapist. - Adel – Tuesday November 17, 2015, 10 a.m.
E2Episode 2Adel – Tuesday November 17, 2015, 10 a.m.Dayan receives a new patient: Adel Chibane, police officer at the BRI. Adel was in the intervention team that entered the Bataclan on the evening of November 13. Since then, he has had symptoms of stress that he cannot explain. He makes contact with Dayan, full of reservations and mistrust. - Camille – Wednesday November 18, 2015, 11 a.m.
E3Episode 3Camille – Wednesday November 18, 2015, 11 a.m.Camille, 16, is a young high-level swimmer who is training for the Olympic Games. She comes to Dayan's office following a bicycle accident, both arms in plaster. Her insurance requires a psychological assessment attesting that she is in no way responsible for what happened to her. - Léonora and Damien – Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5 p.m.
E4Episode 4Léonora and Damien – Thursday, November 19, 2015, 5 p.m.Dayan is not an expert in couples therapy, but he agreed to see Damien and Léonora, who have lived together for ten years. Recently, Léonora became pregnant even though the couple had given up on having a second child. The crisis they are going through seems insurmountable. They expect Dayan to help them make a decision about this unborn child... or to make it for them. - Esther - Friday November 20, 2015, 7 p.m.
E5Episode 5Esther - Friday November 20, 2015, 7 p.m.Dayan rings the doorbell of Esther's office, a former friend and widow of his mentor. She was also his analyst and his controller, but Dayan has not seen her since the day when, in the middle of a session, he slammed the door. But today he is ready to forget old quarrels, desperate to find a new balance in his practice. - Adel - Tuesday November 24, 2015, 10 a.m.
E7Episode 7Adel - Tuesday November 24, 2015, 10 a.m.Adel came back. But even though he has learned about Dayan's skills, he proves resistant to the principles of therapy. He wants to control everything, and yet the anxieties are there. Dayan tries little by little to gain his trust and find how to reassure him. - Léonora and Damien - Thursday November 26, 2015, 5 p.m.
E9Episode 9Léonora and Damien - Thursday November 26, 2015, 5 p.m.After the tensions of the previous session, Damien and Léonora have found a certain complicity. They have decided to take some time for themselves and stop therapy. But an unforeseen event will shake up the order of things... - Esther - Friday November 27, 2015, 7 p.m.
E10Episode 10Esther - Friday November 27, 2015, 7 p.m.Philippe has had an argument with his wife Charlotte, who has confessed to him that she has a lover. Esther takes note, and directs him to a subject that he seems to want to minimize: the ambiguity of his relationship with his patient Ariane. - Adel – Tuesday December 1, 2015, 10 a.m.
E12Episode 12Adel – Tuesday December 1, 2015, 10 a.m.With an unusually cheerful air, Adel tells Dayan about his meeting with Ariane and takes the opportunity to ask him what he thinks of her. Inviting him to make the connection between his dysfunctional relationship and that of his parents, Dayan brings him back to his own torments. Troubled, the policeman tells him about a photo found at his father's house. - Camille – Wednesday December 2, 2015, 11 a.m.
E13Episode 13Camille – Wednesday December 2, 2015, 11 a.m.Camille seems worried that this third session will put an end to her meetings with Dayan. She mentions her parents' divorce and then makes important revelations about her relationship with Nicolas, her coach. Dayan still refuses to comment on whether or not his accident was premeditated, which annoys the young girl. - Esther – Friday December 4, 2015, 7 p.m.
E14Episode 14Esther – Friday December 4, 2015, 7 p.m.Dayan is grumpy, he has rather intimate medical problems. In bad faith, he accuses Esther of having given him bad advice in the management of Ariane's transfer. The latter points out to him that he was not obliged to follow her recommendations. Ariane may have awakened an old wound in him, which would go beyond the simple issue of desire and adultery. - Léonora and Damien – Thursday December 3, 2015, 5 p.m.
E15Episode 15Léonora and Damien – Thursday December 3, 2015, 5 p.m.Léonora shows up alone at the session. Dayan doesn't want to welcome her without her husband, but he still listens to her confide in her miscarriage. Damien, furious, finally arrives and violently takes Léonora to task. Shortly after, Charlotte, Dayan's wife, makes him an announcement that he doesn't like... - Ariane – Monday, December 7, 2015, 9 a.m.
E16Episode 16Ariane – Monday, December 7, 2015, 9 a.m.After a disturbing daydream, a hurt Dayan listens to Ariane tell him about her evening with Adel. The announcement of her breakup with Cédric creates a moment of complicity between them, which leads the psychoanalyst to confide part of his story to his patient. But Ariane receives a phone call that abruptly ends their peaceful exchange. - Adel – Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 10 a.m.
E17Episode 17Adel – Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 10 a.m.Imagining Dayan's income, Adel is outraged by the modesty of his own salary, which he considers derisory in view of the risks of his job. After a very violent training session, his anxieties reappeared during his evening with Ariane. Dayan thinks that Ariane is only a distraction for Adel, who takes him away from the real problem. He is determined to understand what the photo found at his father's house crystallizes in him. - Camille – Wednesday December 9, 2015, 11 a.m.
E18Episode 18Camille – Wednesday December 9, 2015, 11 a.m.Camille arrives at the meeting free of her casts, but exhausted from her night out the night before. At a party, she let herself be seduced by a water polo player and it left a bitter taste in her mouth. Unable to fall asleep, she remembered her accident and tells Dayan. He then discovers what she was hiding from him. - Léonora and Damien – Thursday, December 10, 2015, 5 p.m.
E19Episode 19Léonora and Damien – Thursday, December 10, 2015, 5 p.m.Leonora reproaches Damien for leaving their son Robin alone at home, but they find their complicity again and remember their meeting. Until Damien accuses Leonora of cheating on him. Then begins a new, violent argument, which marks a decisive turning point in their therapy. - Esther – Friday December 11, 2015, 7 p.m.
E20Episode 20Esther – Friday December 11, 2015, 7 p.m.Dayan tells Esther about his week. When he questions the ban on sexual relations between analyst and analysand, she gets violently carried away. Touched, Dayan reproaches him for not engaging emotionally with his patients, unlike him. - Ariane – Monday, December 14, 2015, 9 a.m.
E21Episode 21Ariane – Monday, December 14, 2015, 9 a.m.Ariane almost lost a 15-year-old patient, injured during the Bataclan attacks. Upset, she looks back on her own adolescence and makes important revelations about Serge, her father's friend who spent a summer with them at the time. Ariane, obsessed with Dayan and convinced that she has endangered her patient's life, sees no other solution than to stop the therapy. - Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 10 a.m.
E22Episode 22Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 10 a.m.Adel immediately announces that he has broken up with Ariane, convinced that she is being manipulated by Dayan. In a fit of anger, he also reveals to the analyst everything he has discovered about him: his daughter, his father in a nursing home, his wife who is cheating on him... Dayan manages to calm him down and tries to help him remember Algeria. - Camille – Wednesday December 16, 2015, 11 a.m.
E23Episode 23Camille – Wednesday December 16, 2015, 11 a.m.Annoyed, Camille arrives at the office with her mother, whom she is trying to get rid of. The conversation with Dayan quickly turns to her father and the alleged connection between them. The latter made his daughter carry a heavy secret, which she could not handle well… - Léonora and Damien – Thursday, December 17, 2015, 5 p.m.
E24Episode 24Léonora and Damien – Thursday, December 17, 2015, 5 p.m.Leonora is alone. She accuses Dayan of having made Damien change his behavior. He has become too tender and kind for her taste, which pushes her into the arms of her lover. Dayan, by questioning Leonora about her childhood, finds explanations for his self-destructive behavior. - Esther – Friday December 18, 2015, 3 p.m.
E25Episode 25Esther – Friday December 18, 2015, 3 p.m.Dayan and his wife arrive together at Esther's. He tries to explain why he can't forgive Charlotte for his infidelity, but Esther calls him to order: he too has desire for another woman. Charlotte, jealous and exhausted by her husband's endless analyses, cuts the session short. - Ariane – Monday, December 21, 2015, 9 a.m.
E26Episode 26Ariane – Monday, December 21, 2015, 9 a.m.Ariane returns. She took Dayan's advice and spoke to her father about the behavior of Serge, the family friend, during his teenage years. Suddenly, Dayan confesses his feelings to her, but Ariane wonders if this is an analyst's strategy. - Adel – Tuesday December 22, 2015, 10 a.m.
E27Episode 27Adel – Tuesday December 22, 2015, 10 a.m.Adel, finally back, finally finds the courage to tell the traumatic event he experienced in Algeria when he was a child. As he makes considerable progress in his therapy, he is about to make a decision whose self-destructive nature is clear to Dayan, who tries to warn him. - Camille – Wednesday December 23, 2015, 11 a.m.
E28Episode 28Camille – Wednesday December 23, 2015, 11 a.m.At Dayan's, Camille collapses. She canceled her visit to her father in Brussels, had a very bad performance during a training session and can't talk to her mother. Dayan calms her down and convinces her that she is angry with the wrong person. More serene, she joins her mother with whom she rediscovers a certain complicity. - Léonora and Damien – Thursday, December 24, 2015, 5 p.m.
E29Episode 29Léonora and Damien – Thursday, December 24, 2015, 5 p.m.Damien arrives alone and relaxed, ready to do anything to save his relationship. Léonora, who was on the phone, joins the discussion and confesses her adultery. Damien's reaction is surprising. Léonora starts talking about her father's death, for which she feels responsible. - Ariane – Saturday January 2, 2016, 11 a.m.
E30Episode 30Ariane – Saturday January 2, 2016, 11 a.m.Following a death that upsets him, Dayan goes to the funeral. There he finds Ariane and confides in her his feelings of guilt. There he meets the deceased's relatives, including his father, who, in his dismay, mistakes Ariane for Dayan's partner. - Mohammed Chibane – Monday January 4, 2016, 10 a.m.
E31Episode 31Mohammed Chibane – Monday January 4, 2016, 10 a.m.Liza, Dayan's daughter, is waiting for her father in his office: she is angry with him, is aware of the tensions that reign between her parents. The conversation is interrupted by Mohammed Chibane, Adel’s father, who comes to try to understand what prompted his son to consult. The conversation takes an accusing turn. - Esther – Tuesday January 5, 2016, 9 a.m.
E32Episode 32Esther – Tuesday January 5, 2016, 9 a.m.At his controller, Dayan immediately talks about Adel’s father's visit to his office and his guilt, idealizes this patient who has become a hero to him, and then becomes uneasy. Coming to his senses, Dayan attacks Esther until she loses her footing. - Camille – Wednesday January 6, 2016, 11 a.m.
E33Episode 33Camille – Wednesday January 6, 2016, 11 a.m.Camille's father is waiting for her outside Dayan's office. Cold, she pushes him away but he finally insists on attending the session, where he tries to prove that he is a good father. Camille expresses her anger at feeling abandoned. - Léonora and Damien – Thursday January 7, 2016, 5 p.m.
E34Episode 34Léonora and Damien – Thursday January 7, 2016, 5 p.m.Arriving alone, Damien explains to Dayan that they have decided with Léonora to separate and to end their therapy. Léonora, who joins them, emphasizes that she considers it a failure. Dayan tries to calm the situation.
