1st Edition
Post-Traumatic Growth and Film/Video-Based Therapy Cultivating Resilience Through Storytelling and Media Psychology
Foreword by Albert “Skip” Rizzo
Foreword by Lynn Crandall
Introduction: Through the Lens of Healing
Joshua L. Cohen
1 Therapeutic Filmmaking for Posttraumatic Growth
Vignesh Vyas
2 Filmmaking as an Alchemical Vessel in the Process of Art Therapy
Judyta Daria Potocka
3 Fear of the Future, Now: Personal Social Media Narratives in Posttraumatic Growth and “Eco-Anxiety” among Gen Z and Millennials
Gaia Ardia, Karim Farsakh, and Paola Lamberti
4 Eye Movement Therapy and Cinema
Mal Williamson
5 Mourning with Musical Media: A Media Psychologist’s Experience and Analysis
Patrick E. McNabb
6 Live Concerts and the Pathway toward Ventral Vagal Regulation
Joyce (Fangyu) Zhang
7 Intimate Partner Violence, Posttraumatic Growth, and Creative Therapeutic Approaches
Anna Chiara Sabatino and Valeria Saladino
8 Personal Cinema and Digital Self-Representation on the Therapeutic Set
Anna Chiara Sabatino
9 Digital Media and Immersive Therapeutic Approaches in Interpersonal Violence and Trauma Processing
Anna Chiara Sabatino and Valeria Saladino
10 Participatory Video as a Psychosocial Intervention in Migratory Trauma: Theories and Practice
Alessandro Ciardi
11 Posttraumatic Growth and Documentary Storytelling in Grillo
Dima Puchkarev
12 From Virtual Skies to Real-World Impact: The Evolution of 3D Simulations in Training and Gaming
Robert Salinas
13 Film As Therapy: The Healing Power of Story
Lidia Huerta
14 Sound of the Soul: Music, Memory, and Social Resistance
Lisa Whealy
15 Turning Trauma into Healing: Storytelling for Recovery
Lisa Regina
16 Experiencing Your Experience: The Cinematic Craft and Authentic Embodiment
Paul Petschek
Biography
Joshua L. Cohen is clinically trained as a researcher from Pacifica Graduate Institute and Walden University and is the founder and CEO of Your Digital Storytelling Project in Los Angeles, CA, USA.






