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