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GENERAL COURSE DESCRIPTION
Movies affect us powerfully because the synergistic impact of music, dialogue, lighting, camera angles and sound effects enables a film to bypass our ordinary defensive censors. They draw us into the viewing experience and at the same time - often more easily than in real life - afford a unique opportunity to retain a perspective outside the experience, the observer's view.
This unique and innovative course will teach therapists how to help clients build a bridge between their realizations in "reel" life and their experiences in real life. It will show that this can be therapeutic, transformational and can shorten the course of therapy by facilitating insights and bolstering the therapeutic alliance. Cinema Therapy, a modality drawing increased interest amongst therapists, uses the impact of movies to help clients change negative beliefs, manage destructive emotions, develop self-esteem, discover forgotten strengths and grow in the face of a loss or disappointment.
The course consists of two articles. The first, Cinema Therapy: Using the Power of Imagery in Films for the Therapeutic Process, details the background and clinical utility of Cinema Therapy and explains how it can be integrated into the (standard) therapeutic process with individuals, families and groups. The second article, Resources for Therapists and Their Clients, provides therapists with resources that they can use in implementing Cinema Therapy and additional resources to give to clients, when and if appropriate.
Due to copyright laws, this course does not include movie clips, only descriptions of the movies.
Educational Objectives:
This course will teach psychotherapists to
Explain how and why movies affect the psyche.
Define the healing and transformational power certain films have for clients.
Teach clients to watch films with conscious awareness.
Utilized a client's film experience in the context of traditional therapeutic orientations with individuals, couples, families and groups.
Illustrate Cinema Therapy techniques and how to use them.
List the guidelines to give to clients.
Identify the limitations of Cinema Therapy.
Course Syllabus:
Roots and background of Cinema Therapy
How the therapeutic effect of the movie Experience can be explained
Watching movies with conscious awareness
Doubting voices
Therapeutic environments
Ways to integrate films into the therapeutic process
Ways films aid the therapeutic process
Supporting process of diagnosis and assessment
Helping to overcome resistance
Encouraging insight, self-reflection and understanding
Eliciting emotions
Identifying and reinforcing inner strength
Reinforcing an idea introduced in therapy
Film experience and different therapeutic approaches
Depth psychotherapy and the movie experience
Cognitive therapy and the movie experience
Morty Lefkoe's decision maker process
Behavior modification therapy and the movie experience
Hypnotherapy and the movie experience
Parts work and the movie experience
EMDR and the movie experience
Narrative therapy and the movie experience
Couples and family therapy
Therapy groups
Self-discovery, healing and growth through work with matrices
The film matrix
The self matrix
The growth matrix
Guidelines and limitation
Movie examples for cinema therapy work
Possible applications of work with certain movies
Guidelines for work with prescribed films - preparation
