This exciting book: 1. Removes the mystery of psychotherapy, explaining in clear, lively prose, what it's for, how it works, and why it works. 2. Shows how pivotal scenes from commercially available movies, spanning more than 70 years can facilitate the positive outcome of a psychotherapy. 3. Includes plot outlines and analyses of 169 movies from a unique Psychiatric viewpoint that makes classic films fresh for even the most seasoned movie-lover. 4. Informs and entertains with anecdotes and poignant clinical tales peppered throughout the text.
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This review is from: The Healing Movie Book (Precious Images: The Healing Use of Cinema in Psychotherapy) (Paperback)
I've always been deeply affected by films, and now, with Dr. Kalm's gentle approach, (as opposed to simply labeling myself a film junkie/beached whale)I am able to claim that I'm looking within and attempting to get a clue while I'm at it. I hope the good Doctor does another book quickly, as I feel that film is the most powerful tool we have. Granted, some films are a waste of time, i.e. they suck, and when I actually consider the magnitude of the budget that they flushed down the toity to make the picture-- the million dollar budgets they have to play with when I'm having trouble making the gas payment--I look inside myself and feel the need to bitch slap myself for wasting the money.
Then I want to bitch slap the producers, directors and actors twice as hard as I did myself. I would recommend this book to anyone with a little native intelligence, and the drive to follow Socrates' admonishment that an unexamined life is not worth living. However while in the act of this examination, I'm not suggesting we commit one of the most popular forms of suicide (well, it's my personal favorite); As a matter of fact, I may've unwittingly invented and coined the terminology aquired by the DCM4 and here it is: "death by stapler". Naturally the acute form of this illness--or for the truly masochistic "death by straight pin" should be avoided. After all folks, the good doctor isn't suggesting this new therapy be a PAINFUL process! Most of us live on one floor or another of a well disguised death row, (I prefer contemporary, my neighbor does the eclectic thing very well!) behind our shubbery. So, Dr. Kalm, understanding the depth of our addiction to stories, has come up with an inexpensive version of killing several birds with one or two stones! All this without ever having to resort to killing the writer! Although in many cases, it's certainly warranted... you could get off easily enough too, just by turning up the juice on the insanity plea. Oh hell. I've written enough. Just buy the book! A word to the Wise-- from the get-go, see that your friends get their own copies. In no time your book will have been loaned out to THEIR friends, and it will be half way around the world by the time you realize it ain't never comin'home... I've had to learn the hard way, as usual...several times.
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