Title
Film therapeutics: A possibility of assistance
Other title
Terapéutica fílmica: Una posibilidad de asistencia
Date Issued
06 May 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
University of Salamanca
Abstract
There is a notable activity of the cinema within the medical training processes promoting the development of multiple inherent skills. In this study, we present a proposal for film therapy in the complementary context of current medical care. We review series of aforetime, broadcast around the 70's, consisting of short chapters (~ 25 minutes). Series like Candy Candy, Marco, or Heidi, have marked differences from modern series, and the potential to be therapeutic instruments in themselves due to: i) presenting specific characters (a boy or a girl in particular, in a specific context), ii) the existence of an argumentative story (which is followed chapter by chapter, which forces the child to recreate a story longitudinally), iii) the approach to existential problems (the lives of the characters force them to live limit situations, usually linked to the historical conditions of their time); and iv) the experience of experiences of a moral nature (involving a discussion of good and bad). These could link the child and the father, since each chapter represents an activity of daily life, exempting them from the mass transmission of series without educational (therapeutic) content.
Start page
145
End page
154
Volume
17
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Psicología
Estudios en cine, Estudios en radio, Estudios en televisión
Ciencias médicas, Ciencias de la salud
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85113655573
Source
Revista de Medicina y Cine
ISSN of the container
18855210
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus