Cinematic Psychotherapy

Anna Chiara Sabatino, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Audiovisual Storytelling and Fellow Researcher in Visual Culture at the University of Salerno, PhD in Communication Sciences and Graduated Director at Italian National Film School. She is a documentary filmmaker, an Italian Miur Certificated Film Education Trainer and Expert. She also teaches Directing Techniques at VHEI, Valletta Higher Education Institute of Malta. Her ongoing research is focused on cinematic agency, amateur audiovisual narratives, and methodological applications for therapeutic images. Valeria Saladino, PhD, clinical psychologist, criminologist, PhD in Developmental Psychology and post doc in Clinical Psychology at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. She is interested in new addictions, sexual offending, and the use of new technologies in the field of treatment, and has published articles and books on the topic. She works in the University Mercatorum of Rome as a professor and collaborates with the University of Salerno and “Magna Graecia” University of Catanzaro. She also works in Italian correctional facilities for adults as a psychologist.

Introduction Chapter 1. Self-Representational Grounds for Therapeutic Dispositive Chapter 2. The Therapeutic Set: Methodological Integrations Chapter 3. Audiovisual Therapeutic Approaches: Taxonomy and Classification Chapter 4 Art-Based Therapy in the Digital Age: A New Form of Participation Chapter 5. Strategic Psychotherapy and Audiovisual Language Chapter 6. Therapeutic Autism Narratives: An Integrated Approach Conclusions