Our world is inundated by film. Our best stories are told on movie
screens, on televisions, on smartphones and laptops. Film argues that
on-screen storytelling is the most ubiquitous format for art to
intersect with health and well-being, offering a way for us to
appreciate, understand and even celebrate the most nuanced and complex
notions of what it means to be healthy through the stories that we watch
unfolding. Clinicians use film to better understand their patients, and
individuals use film to better understand themselves and each other.
Using case histories and based on academic research from a range of
disciplines, this book explores how film can be used by clinicians and
healthcare practitioners to better understand patients; by individuals
to better understand themselves and others; and - perhaps most important
of all - by societies as a tool in the fight against the stigma of
illness. This book not only makes the case that film keeps us healthy,
but also tells us how. After all, nothing quite moves us like the
movies.