MOVIES
Can our love of
television, film and
video help with our
mental health?DR RUTH MANASSEH is a Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapist who has been in practice for
more than 20 years. She originally trained
and worked as a filmmaker and her current
pioneering research explores the effects of using
film extracts as a supplement to analytic work
with traumatised patients who remain in an impasse, despite
their having undergone previous pharmaceutical, cognitive or
psychodynamic interventions.
The main innovation, which she calls Applied Cinematherapy,
is the controlled way in which film extracts are introduced into
a traditional psychotherapy setting governed by established
psychoanalytic psychotherapy practices.
Dr Ruth says, “Film and TV is the most accessible medium of
our time. My initial findings indicate that Applied Cinematherapy
enables a containing, transitional space for patients to gradually
work through the more concealed parts of their trauma.”Find out more at trypsychotherapy.sg/trauma-article.htmlMIND
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