Cattiva (internationally released as The Wicked) is a 1991 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani.

[2] The film is loosely based on real life events of Carl Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, and of Sabina Spielrein.

[4] In the early twentieth century, the young Italian-born Emilia Schmidt leads a comfortable life in Switzerland, with her husband and little son Ludwig, but shows from time-to-time signs of mental imbalance.

She is admitted to a luxurious clinic in Zürich, where she receives the diagnosis of schizophrenia due to her behavior, thus being defined as "wicked".

This allows Emilia to leave the clinic, not completely cured, but released from her neuroses and confident in Gustav's promise to continue monitoring her health in the future.