Description:

Movies are complex multisensory stories reflecting a specific world, transporting messages and solutions in order to provide the viewer with the possibility of identifying with the movie characters. Viewers get ab-sorbed in movies and empathize, recognize consciously or subconsciously one’s own central topics in life. They provide the possibility of being catalysts for developmental processes that can be used in psycho-therapy. In this presentation participants will learn about the processes of watching movies and the trans-fer into therapy.

Educational Objectives:

1. Describe several techniques of how movies can be used to elicit therapeutic processes.
2. Describe a method of how therapists can identify and apply therapeutically useful movies.

*Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality*