Multimedia Psychotherapy : A Psychodynamic Approach for Mourning in the Technological Age

Psychotherapy is conceived as a manual in order to let all health professionals who work as psychotherapists to learn the new technique and apply it with their own patients. Excerpts from sessions are quoted to describe each step of the therapy. At the same time, two theoretical chapters are devoted to explain how and why the "memory objects\u0022 created by the multimedia artist are so effective in helping patients to mourn their complicated grief and/or overcome their blocks or inhibitions in normal development. Finally a new supervision model (the Clinic and Dreams Workshop) is described as well as a training group experience, once again through excerpts of such new teaching seminars. The book is written as a "story\u0022 in the format of "narrative medicine.\u0022 It ends opening new horizons: how to use Multimedia Psychotherapy to make "memory objects for the future,\u0022 during pregnancy and prenatal life, or to help Alzheimer patients not to lose their capacity to recognize their own relatives

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