This book continues the work of the first volume in exploring the use of film/video-based therapy to help build resilience in facing triggers of personal, communal, national, and global trauma.
Focusing on the theme of collaboration, it addresses issues such as integrative medicine and advocacy using film/video-based therapy and digital storytelling as a method to address trauma in one’s home, community, country, and the world. Whilst the first volume introduced film/video-based therapy as a new modality in psychotherapy and explored ethical dilemmas that might be inherent to its practice, this volume emphasizes the capacity for positive social change through the use of therapeutic and technological techniques in filmmaking, as well as film/video-based therapy in expressive art therapies such as drama, dance, music, painting, drawing, and more. Addressing the questions of how the language of film can be utilised to watch, process, and discuss images of trauma in therapy, it appeal to researchers and practitioners interested in the creative treatment of trauma, as well as mental health professionals, creative art therapists, filmmakers, and activists.
Table of Contents
Foreword — Dr. Albert “Skip” Rizzo & Lynn Crandall
Introduction: Through the Lens of Healing — Dr. Joshua L. Cohen
- Therapeutic Filmmaking for Post-Traumatic Growth — Vignesh Vyas
- Filmmaking as an Alchemical Vessel in the Process of Art Therapy — Judyta Daria Potocka
- Fear of the Future, Now: Personal Social Media Narratives in Posttraumatic Growth and “Eco-Anxiety” Among Gen Z and Millennials — Gaia Ardia, Karim Farsakh & Paola Lamberti
- Eye Movement Therapy and Cinema — Mal Williamson
- Mourning with Musical Media: A Media Psychologist’s Experience and Analysis — Patrick McNabb, Amethyst McNabb
- Live Concerts and the Pathway Toward Ventral Vagal Regulation — Joyce (Fangyu) Zhang
- Intimate Partner Violence, Post-Traumatic Growth, and Creative Therapeutic Approaches – Anna Chiara Sabatino & Valeria Saladino
- Personal Cinema and Digital Self-Representation on the Therapeutic Set – Anna Chiara Sabatino
- Digital Media and Immersive Therapeutic Approaches in Interpersonal Violence and Trauma Processing – Anna Chiara Sabatino & Valeria Saladino
- Participatory Video and Migratory Trauma: Theories and Practice — Alessandro Ciardi
- Post-Traumatic Growth and Documentary Storytelling in Grillo — Dima Puchkarev
- From Virtual Skies to Real-World Impact: The Evolution of 3D Simulations in Training and Gaming — Robert Salinas
- Film as Therapy: The Healing Power of Story — Lidia Huerta
- Sound of the Soul: Music, Memory, and Social Resistance — Lisa Whealy
- Turning Trauma into Healing: Storytelling for Recovery — Lisa Regina
- Experiencing Your Experience: The Cinematic Craft and Authentic Embodiment — Paul Petschek