Film/Video-Based Therapy and Trauma

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

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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