The Treatment was adapted for the screen from Daniel Menaker's novel of the same name by Daniel Housman and Oren Rudavsky. Set in contemporary New York City, the film was shot completely on location in the spring of 2005. The film premiered at the internationally renowned Tribeca Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Film Made in New York in 2006.

The following is a synopsis from the film's website:
"Jake Singer is an anxious young schoolteacher in New York - barely on speaking terms with his father, recently abandoned by his girlfriend, and heading for a life of compromise and mediocrity. Emotionally paralyzed by his mother's death, he embarks on a course of psychoanalysis with a maniacal Freudian - Dr. Ernesto Morales, therapist from hell. But when he meets socialite widow Allegra Marshall, and finds himself upwardly mobile in the Manhattan of serious money and glamour - as he bounces from the couch to Allegra's bed in the allegedly real world and back again - his whole life begins to take on the eerie, overdetermined quality of an analytic session and he must figure out his escape."

The screening is presented courtesy of New Yorker Films.

Discussants:
Daria Colombo is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College, a senior candidate at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and editor of the forthcoming journal Philoctetes.

Daniel Menaker is the author of the novel The Treatment, as well as two books of short stories. He is Senior Vice President and Executive Editor-in-Chief of Random House and publishes humor pieces and music reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Slate.

Oren Rudavsky directed The Treatment, as well as Hiding and Seeking, which was nominated for best documentary at the 2004 Independent Spirit Awards and was broadcast on PBS. Other works include the televised movie And Baby Makes Two and A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, which received an Emmy nomination for its PBS release in 1998.