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Film Therapy: The Benefits of Watching Movies - Exploring your mind
It's clear that film provokes all kinds of emotions. It can make you laugh, cry, suffer, and even find the strength you need to face your problems. So why not channel all of this into a form of therapy?
What is film therapy?
Developers of psychotherapy have been able to collaborate with all kinds of coaches, colleagues, and film experts to develop a therapy based on TV series and movies by applying their benefits to coaching and psychology. Logically, this is called film therapy.
However, the benefits of film therapy don't stop at the mere act of watching a movie. Many different tools have been implemented, such as quotes, comments, posters, visual analysis, etc.
Hodgson and Burque have focused their therapy on the implementation of coaching and positive psychology to improve the competencies and abilities of people who want to learn about film from a different point of view.
Film as a psychological tool
This therapy uses film as a psychological tool for different purposes. They consider it to be an enormously effective complement to therapy, due to various factors:
- Intensity: Stories, characters, and scenarios are squeezed into a short amount of time.
- Duration: The length of a film is equivalent to a long therapy session.
- Learning: Films are allegorical like stories and fables. You can take advantage of the cognitive effects of watching films to formulate theories about learning, creativity, etc., and to promote the idea of multiple intelligences.
- Identification: Many of us have felt identified with movie characters. This information can be discussed further in therapy.
- Attention: The visual impact of film promotes concentration on the images.
- Social features: Watching and talking about a film with other people multiplies its value and serves as an integrative tool in therapy.
Benefits of film therapy
The creators of film therapy say that these techniques offer many palpable benefits for people who undergo this unique therapy. Here are a few of these benefits:
- Watching a movie can be revitalizing. It allows you to disconnect, relax, and have a good time.
- Film therapy uses scenes or entire movies to help people face fears. It helps them become aware of their fears so that they can work on overcoming them.
- It allows you to focus on your problems. The content of many movies can make you aware of your own problems through identification and empathy.
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- Film also has a cathartic function. When you watch a movie, you can experience passion without suffering the real side effects.
- It helps with relaxation. Because watching a film redirects attention towards an activity, it's an excellent way to decrease anxiety.
- It drives motivation. When you watch a movie, you can find characters who help you find energy in your real life.
- Entertainment. Film also creates laughter and happiness. And there's no doubt that it has immense influence over both mental and physical health.
- Shedding cathartic tears.Sad and distressing movies can also help your emotions surface from deep inside you.
- Rethinking your negative thoughts. Through movies, you can find new perspectives that will help you reflect on and change your attitude.
- Development of creativity. There's no doubt that the different perspectives you see in movies can change your mental schemas and push you to be more creative, flexible, and innovative.
- Improves personal relationships. Watching and commenting on a movie with friends and family has a huge social and emotional value.
" I never go to movies where the hero's bust is bigger than the heroine's."
-Groucho Marx-
- It's a reflective art. Movies make us reflect on existential, spiritual, and even royal questions.
- It helps to deal with loss . Heartbreak and loss can be softened by movies that help you through these periods.
- Film elevates, moves, inspires, and amazes. Thanks to the Seventh Art, you can become a better person.
- It improves your strengths. The qualities of different characters can inspire you to improve your strengths.
"The fascinating thing about film is putting the spectator in moral positions that they've never been."
-Alex de la Iglesia-
You can be sure that film is much more than a simple art. Film therapy has elevated movies to the category of highly useful psychological tools. There's no doubt that they can make us happier and more complete if we let them.
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Taking into consideration the number of movies I watch, and I usually watch at least one or two a day if not more, I've got to be the psychologically healthiest NT member. Today I watched The Sum of All Fears and Clear and Present Danger.
This article should have been entitled with a movie name: "Gone in 60 Seconds". Or else it could be what Jonah's girl friend says in Sleepless in Seattle: "H and G" (Hello and goodbye).