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Getty Christopher Hampton, right, with his “A Dangerous Method” star Keira Knightley

In “A Dangerous Method,” Keira Knightley stars as Sabine Spielrein, a Russian-Jewish patient of psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) who treated her at a mental hospital near Zurich in 1904. Though she later became a child-psychology pioneer and inspiration for Mr. Jung and his mentor Sigmund Freud in her own right, Ms. Speilrein never got any credit for her contributions, says “Dangerous Method” screenwriter Christopher Hampton. “Because she was so young, »


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