We haven't yet discussed the categories of counseling, but our first two chapters cover three ways of looking at the mind: psychodynamic, behavioral, and cognitive. While cinematherapy does not particularly apply to a cognitive approach, the psychodynamic and behavioral one does. Psychodynamic therapy focuses on the client discussing their problems with the therapist in the hope of bringing out repressed feelings – basically free association, which I will return to. Behavioral therapy uses conditioning to replace problematic behavior with something more appropriate. One branch of behavioral therapy includes exposure therapy, which places the client in a fictional or nonfictional scenario that they are disturbed by, ultimately treating their anxiety (Green, 2014). The definition is enough to see how cinematherapy relates. Because the therapist exposes the client to a situation similar to his own, which bothers him, he forces the client to face his fears. Coming to terms with what bothers the client and why it bothers them can ultimately help treat their anxiety. This applies to me as the idea of cinema therapy will help me apply it to a cognitive approach to therapy. Since this isn't a topic we've covered yet, it will help me in future lessons to understand what it means. Furthermore, the word cognitive is a broad and frequently used term in psychology; when I think of cognitive, I will think of cinematherapy and, once again, I will remember its definition. For example, the way cinema therapy will help me remember what cognitive therapy means, it will help me understand the principles of Sigmund Freud and his psychodynamics
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