PSICHIATRIA E CINEMA FOTOGRAFIA E TELEVISIONE
Module CINEMA FOTOGRAFIA E TELEVISIONE

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: MICHELE CANNAVO'

Expected Learning Outcomes

STUDENTS LEARNED BOTH THEORETICALLY AND PRACTICALLY THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE BASICS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, USE OF IMAGES AND FILM WITHIN A REHABILITATION PATHWAY.

HAVE PREPARED AND EXPERIMENTED WITH REHABILITATION PROJECTS USING AUDIO VIDEO TECHNIQUES. HAVE ALSO UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF SUCH REHABILITATIVE TOOLS THROUGH THE HISTORY OF CINEMA AND PHOTOGRAPHY ESPECIALLY IN REHABILITATION.

Course Structure

face to face / traditional teaching

Required Prerequisites

basic knowledge of photography and film history

basic knowledge of brain physiology

Attendance of Lessons

1/2 times for weeks in 2/3 months

Detailed Course Content

basics and fundamentals of photography and therapeutic photography

phototherapy techniques according to Judy Weiser's techniques

self-portrait techniques

body phototherapy

Neuroaesthetics applied to images

basics of neuroscience

film history

videocinetherapy

basics of building projects using images and video

clinical examples of using images, film and TV

Textbook Information

1) A.M. Acocella, O. Rossi, The new arts therapies. Pathways in the helping relationship, FrancoAngeli, Milan 2013.

2) R. Barthes, The clear room. Note on photography , Einaudi, Turin 2003.

3) M. Spagnuolo Lobb and N. Amendt-Lyon (eds.), The permission to create. The art of Gestalt psychotherapy , FrancoAngeli, Milan 2007, pp. 295-309

4) Cannavò, M., Doric, Z et al. The use of images and photography in therapy. Neuroaesthetics, mirror neurons and body resonances. Quaderni di Gestalt, XXXIV, 2021-2. Milan: Franco Angeli. 

5) Cannavò M. Shots of light. Travels and encounters of a psychotherapist. Festamobile, Milan 2016.    

6) G. Sampognaro, The psycho-portrait in art therapy , "Gestalt Notebooks", 32/33 (2001), pp. 80-89

7) G. Sampognaro, Writing the Unspeakable. Creative writing in gestalt psychotherapy , FrancoAngeli, Milan 2008

8) Musacchi R. (2016). Psychocorporeal phototherapy. The work with photographs in body psychotherapy. Milan: FrancoAngeli.

9) Gallese, Guerra. The empathic screen (2015.

10) Cinevideotherapy. Cinema and video in rehabilitation and therapy pathways.d

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

written test

project evaluation

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

What are phototherapy techinics?

How does the body react to images?

What is storytelling?

What patient can you use films or pieces of films with?

How do you prepare a project with videos/films?