<div id="subtitle">French first lady Bruni-Sarkozy tells TV show of her 8 years `body and soul' in psychoanalysis</div><div><p>During her years as a top model, French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy gave psychoanalysis nary a thought.</p><p>But after her father died, the then-28-year-old model dove into therapy "body and soul," and has since spent many years in analysis, she told the makers of a French documentary broadcast Saturday.</p><p>The documentary "La premiere seance" ("The First Session") features people talking about the reasons that pushed them to go into analysis and their experiences on the psychiatrist's couch.</p><p>Other celebrities featured on the program included Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld and filmmaker Claude Chabrol.</p><p>"I didn't know anything about psychoanalysis and didn't think I needed it. I lived in total action, in youth, completely outside psychoanalysis until the age of 28," Bruni-Sarkozy told documentary director Gerard Miller — himself a psychoanalyst.</p><p>"And then I had a sort of fracture when my father died and then I went ... into psychoanalysis body and soul, if I dare say,"</p><p>It took her two false starts — with analysts Bruni-Sarkozy described as "glum" — before she hit on the right one.</p><p>"The first consultation with that analyst was incandescent," she said.</p><p>"I think it was that human contact that, in my heart at least, made me commit to psychoanalysis and invest in it."</p><p>Bruni-Sarkozy, 41, said she didn't ever like lying down on the analyst's couch but acknowledged, "I stayed lying down for eight years."</p><p>During the program, Lagerfeld described what an analyst's office should look like — Spartan — and Chabrol defended the often exorbitant price of sessions.</p><p>"It's part of the treatment," the director said with a laugh. "It's really smart in terms of our understanding of human nature, our taste for showing off, our taste for all things expensive."</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=62886248&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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