Film as an educational tool to train psychotherapists

Starting with Freud who wrote about Dostoyevsky, Michelangelo, and da Vinci, therapists have acknowledged that the humanities and arts contain great sources of insight into human nature. In this paper, I argue for the need to incorporate insights acquired by artists into the training of psychotherap...

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Published inJournal of clinical psychology Vol. 76; no. 8; pp. 1492 - 1503
Main Author Roe, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Wiley Periodicals Inc 01.08.2020
Subjects
cinema
Creativity
Curriculum
Education, Graduate - methods
Expressed Emotion
Humanities
Humans
Learning
Motion Pictures
Psychotherapists - education
Psychotherapy - education
psychotherapy training
Teaching
psychotherapy training
art
teaching
humanities
cinema
film
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Summary:Starting with Freud who wrote about Dostoyevsky, Michelangelo, and da Vinci, therapists have acknowledged that the humanities and arts contain great sources of insight into human nature. In this paper, I argue for the need to incorporate insights acquired by artists into the training of psychotherapists. Specifically, I present and describe a graduate‐level seminar I teach that uses cinema as a tool to train mental health practitioners. Films are used to expose students to a range of universal human issues; we discuss film characters' conflicts, motivations, sources of suffering, and attempts to cope. Further efforts should be devoted to search for ways to use art to inform and enrich the practice, training, and teaching of psychotherapDirected by Robert Redford and produced in the United Statesy.
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ISSN:0021-9762
1097-4679
DOI:10.1002/jclp.23001