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Welcome to Cinema Therapy Review

Cinema therapy is often called "film therapy" or "movie therapy." It's a process where a therapist prescribes movies to help their patient explore their psyches. Although few therapists actually center their practices around cinema therapy, movies have long been a tool to help those in therapy achieve their goals. Books with such titles as Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning and Hollywood Endings And How To Get One can be found in the self-help section of your local bookstore.

There are many types and definitions of cinema therapy, just as there are many different applications. For example, the Chicago Institute for the Moving Image (CIMI) helps people seeking therapy for depression or other serious psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia or amnesia, to write, produce, and direct their own movies.

Part of the focus of this site is to review movies for their therapeutic value. Another key point of this site is to explore other practical aspects of using movies as therapy. For example, prescribing movies for yourself just as you would practice self-hypnosis or meditation.

Now Showing

A fun and interesting component of this site is an ongoing feature called "Now Showing." Now Showing presents a movie review of a recently released film. Each review focuses on the movie's therapeutics value in terms of thinking outside the DVD - beyond what you might think of as traditional therapeutic. In doing this, the reviewer encorages using movies for a variety of therapeutic purposes. Reviews are written by a psychotherapist and author Randi Fredricks. We hope you enjoy them! Click here for the latest edition of Now Showing.

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