Video and Filmmaking as Psychotherapy Research and Practice [Hardcover]

While film and video has long been used within psychological practice, researchers and practitioners have only just begun to explore the benefits of film and video production as therapy. This volume describes a burgeoning area of psychotherapy which employs the art of filmmaking and digital storytelling as a means of healing victims of trauma and abuse. It explores the ethical considerations behind this process, as well as its cultural and developmental implications within clinical psychology. Grounded in clinical theory and methodology, this multidisciplinary volume draws on perspectives from anthropology, psychiatry, psychology, and art therapy which support the use and integration of film/video-based therapy in practice.

Part I: Introduction1. IntroductionJoshua L. Cohen and J. Lauren Johnson2. A Challenge to Readers: Ethical Considerations in Film- and Video-Based Therapies J. Lauren Johnson and Joshua L. Cohen Part II: A Human Approach To Technology 3. Film/Video Based Therapy and Editing as Process From a Depth Psychological PerspectiveJoshua L. Cohen and Penelope P. Orr4. Filming the Fantasy: Green Screen Technology From Novelty to Psychotherapy Jon Ehinger5. Vision, Story, Medicine: Therapeutic Filmmaking and First Nations Communities J. Lauren JohnsonPart III: Research and Validity 6. Expansive Palettes: A Client Video Media Experience Natalie R. Carlton7. The Benefits of Using a Technological Intervention for Children and Adolescents Within a Grief and Loss ProgramCarolyn McGurl, Winston Seegobin, Elizabeth Hamilton, and Mark McMinn8. Digital Storytelling as a Trauma Narrative Intervention for Children Exposed to Domestic ViolenceKim Anderson and Beatriz Wallace