Titlebook: Media and the Inner World: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture; Caroline Bainbridge (Reader in Visual Culture

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‘Cinematic Screaming’ or ‘All About My Mother’: Lars von Trier’s Cinematic Extremism as Therapeutic ans of using artistic endeavour in pursuit of an authentic sense of self. As he has stated, When life gets too threatening, you have to create some sort of fantasy existence, a life where you can control the things you can’t control in real life’ (Björkman, 2003, p. 19). The relationship of von Trie

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Film Projection and Projective Identification: Film as a Teaching Toolis a major cultural reference point that can be used to illustrate the inner worlds it so powerfully depicts from a psychoanalytic perspective. Using a particular film, . (Lynne Ramsay, UK, 2002), to reflect on the impact of the counter-transference, the feelings generated in the clinician or observ

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The Body, Emotion and Cinema: Perspectives on Cinematic Experiences of , and Estranged Body States i us. It does this via vision and sound, but a film is not only perceptual, it is sensational, ‘hitting in the guts’, so to speak. The hit is bodily and even visceral, as our eyes well up with tears as sadness overwhelms, or an erotic scene sexually arouses, or palpitations and heartbeat race as exci

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Reflections on Television and Paranoia gained as a former journalist-turned-media-and-communications-consultant, and as a group analytic psychotherapist. As I began to ponder the relationship between television and paranoia in groups and in society I noted that there seems to be something about television and what it represents that put

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Digital Narcissism in the Consulting Roomling with their smartphones to be abreast of the latest Twitter update, as talking to the person sitting opposite them. Such phenomena have led multiple commentators to argue that we now inhabit a world full of ‘digital narcissists’ (Keen, 2007) — a term implying that the wider cultural shift to nar