- Analyze how movies can create and relieve trauma.
- Challenge Hollywood's portrayal of the American family.
- Overview the use of movies to examine relationships in therapy.
- Explore the acclaimed Up television cinema verite series as studies in personal growth and social change.
- Reinterprets images of disability in terms of positive psychology.
- Examines models, or the lack thereof, for the American adolescent rite of passage.
- Traces the history of mental illness stereotypes in film.
The collective wisdom found in The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching will bringprofessionals involved in healing, coaching, counseling, education, and mentoring not only new applications but new appreciation for the transformative power of film. That power already exists. Readers just have to "SEE" it.
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"The edited volume The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching brings together 13 essays that both address how cinema might be integrated into therapeutic settings and explore the interface between film production in recent decades and psychological concerns such as marriage ... . For clinicians, counselors, and coaches in North America ... provides a uniquely valuable overview of international filmmaking. ... psychologists and life coaches should be ready to deploy more broadly and effectively the cinematic resources described ... in this collection." (Vincent W. Hevern, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 55 (32), August, 2010)