Pre-Production

A psychiatrist’s marital troubles push him to the brink of a nervous breakdown, causing him to question his mental and emotional well-being and his ability to function as a professional.

Storyline

After discovering that his wife of twenty years has been having an affair for more than a year and now wants a divorce, a psychiatrist begins to doubt himself and his ability to care for his patients. Slowly, his inner fears take hold of him as a life’s worth of secrets and hidden emotions eat away at his fragile reality. With every session, he his pulled deeper into his patients experiences until he has trouble distinguishing their realities from his own. With his sense of self-worth all but gone, he turns to alcohol and prescription medications as he struggles to express his true thoughts and feelings for the people around him. Through the process he becomes aware of his own great truth; his life has all been a fraud. He’d been pretending to be something and someone he wasn’t and never could be. And now, on the far side of forty looking back, his life is a wasteland of lies and broken relationships. But how can you know the answers if you don’t know the questions? 

Psychiatrist is written and directed by Daniel Ali, Love and the Game (2021), Delilah (2022). The lead character will be played by Jonathan H. Ragins, who reprises the  role of Nicholas from his standout performance in Delilah which this storyline is loosly based upon. The film is currently in pre-production and is expected in December 2023.