Cinema Therapy

Dr. Randi Fredricks, Ph.D., has reported that Cinema therapy is often called "film therapy" or "movie therapy." This is a process where a therapist prescribes movies to help their patient explore their psyches. Although not very many therapists actually center their practices around cinema therapy, movies have long been a tool to help people in therapy achieve their goals. There are books with such titles as Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning and Hollywood Endings And How To Get One which can be found in the self-help section of your local bookstore. Many types and definitions of cinema therapy exist, just as there are many different application for cinema therapy. For example, the Chicago Institute for the Moving Image (CIMI) helps people seeking therapy for depression or other serious psychiatric illnesses, including people laneled with schizophrenia or suffering from amnesia, to write, produce, and direct their own movies.