Film/Video-Based Therapy and Trauma: Research and Practice
This book uses film/video-based therapy to help build resilience in facing personal, communal, national, and global trauma triggers.

Offering a rich and diverse range of perspectives on trauma, this volume advocates positive social change using therapeutic techniques in filmmaking as well as film/video-based therapy, in conjunction with expressive art therapies such as drama, dance, music, painting, drawing, and more. Chapter authors address issues in one’s home, community, country, and the world using integrative medicine and advocacy using film/video-based therapy and digital storytelling. The book highlights psychological trauma and how one can cope with the overwhelming triggers in today’s world. It represents an articulate and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which traumatic human experience impacts, and is modified by, film and video media. Representing a rich and diverse range of perspectives on trauma through the lens of a camera, the authors document important examples of moments in which artistic expression becomes human resilience.

Demonstrating how the language of film can facilitate watching, processing, and discussing images of trauma in therapy, in the home, in the community, and in the world, this volume will be of interest to educators and mental health practitioners with an interest in advancing psychotherapy and counseling techniques.

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Film/Video-Based Therapy and Trauma: Research and Practice
This book uses film/video-based therapy to help build resilience in facing personal, communal, national, and global trauma triggers.

Offering a rich and diverse range of perspectives on trauma, this volume advocates positive social change using therapeutic techniques in filmmaking as well as film/video-based therapy, in conjunction with expressive art therapies such as drama, dance, music, painting, drawing, and more. Chapter authors address issues in one’s home, community, country, and the world using integrative medicine and advocacy using film/video-based therapy and digital storytelling. The book highlights psychological trauma and how one can cope with the overwhelming triggers in today’s world. It represents an articulate and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which traumatic human experience impacts, and is modified by, film and video media. Representing a rich and diverse range of perspectives on trauma through the lens of a camera, the authors document important examples of moments in which artistic expression becomes human resilience.

Demonstrating how the language of film can facilitate watching, processing, and discussing images of trauma in therapy, in the home, in the community, and in the world, this volume will be of interest to educators and mental health practitioners with an interest in advancing psychotherapy and counseling techniques.

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Film/Video-Based Therapy and Trauma: Research and Practice

Film/Video-Based Therapy and Trauma: Research and Practice

by Joshua L. Cohen (Editor)
Film/Video-Based Therapy and Trauma: Research and Practice

Film/Video-Based Therapy and Trauma: Research and Practice

by Joshua L. Cohen (Editor)

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This book uses film/video-based therapy to help build resilience in facing personal, communal, national, and global trauma triggers.

Offering a rich and diverse range of perspectives on trauma, this volume advocates positive social change using therapeutic techniques in filmmaking as well as film/video-based therapy, in conjunction with expressive art therapies such as drama, dance, music, painting, drawing, and more. Chapter authors address issues in one’s home, community, country, and the world using integrative medicine and advocacy using film/video-based therapy and digital storytelling. The book highlights psychological trauma and how one can cope with the overwhelming triggers in today’s world. It represents an articulate and comprehensive analysis of the ways in which traumatic human experience impacts, and is modified by, film and video media. Representing a rich and diverse range of perspectives on trauma through the lens of a camera, the authors document important examples of moments in which artistic expression becomes human resilience.

Demonstrating how the language of film can facilitate watching, processing, and discussing images of trauma in therapy, in the home, in the community, and in the world, this volume will be of interest to educators and mental health practitioners with an interest in advancing psychotherapy and counseling techniques.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032405766
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/30/2022
Series: Advances in Mental Health Research
Pages: 206
Sales rank: 726,151
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Joshua L. Cohen is clinically trained as a researcher from Pacifica Graduate Institute and Walden University and is the founder and CEO of Media Psychology Consultants and Your Digital Storytelling Project in Los Angeles, USA.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Albert "Skip" Rizzo

Part I: Introduction

1. Film/Video-Based TherapyTM and Virtual Reality

Joshua L. Cohen

Part II: Trauma in the Home, City, State/Province

2. “No Longer Under Water”: The Role of Metaphors in Trauma Re-Storying

Valentina Stoycheva

3. The Application of Neurocinematics within Trauma Therapies and Integrative Practices

Bronwyn Robertson

4. Creating Videogames for Psychotherapy

Christopher R. Harz

5. My Journey through Breast Cancer

Penelope P. Orr

Part III: Trauma in the United States

6. Process Language and Its Impact: Making a Digital Cancer Narrative with Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors

Lila Pereira, Kimberly Marynowski and Katie Dicola

7. Creating Impact through Trauma-Informed Drama Therapy using Videos and Films: The Efficacy of Purposeful Performance

Brooke Campbell

8. The Wolfpack: Film as Therapy for the Soul

Joanna N. Dovalis

9. Video Storytelling: The Influence of Video and How It Can Heal

Nancy Mramor Kajuth

Part IV: Trauma in the World

10. Chuppah (The Wedding Canopy): The Holocaust and Trauma

Sascha Schneider

11. Video Movie Therapy (VMT) Psychotherapy

Gaetano Giordano

12. Directing with the “Gaze”: Video Art Therapy as Viewed from Gestalt Therapy, Psychoanalysis, and Holism

Rodríguez Pérez, R. N.

13. Game Girls: Documentary Filmmaking and Drama Therapy Create the Potential Space for Self-Expression and Healing

Myriam D. Savage and Alina Skrzeszewska

14. Producing a Documentary as a Therapeutic Process for Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse

Yarden Kerem

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