The King’s Speech: The Process of Psychoanalysis, or Finding One’s Voice

Abstract

The relationship between King George VI and his speech therapist, Lionel Logue, as depicted in the award-winning film The King’s Speech (2010) resembles an extraordinary psychoanalytic dance between a gifted psychoanalyst and his courageous analysand. The path of their therapeutic relationship is traced and linked with various stages of an analysis dealing with symptoms of anxiety, self-esteem, and identity.