scholarly journals Slasher therapy: the slasher movie as an allegory for uncovering trauma

Literartes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 199-214
Author(s):  
Amanda de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Film Structure ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
Slasher Film ◽  
Slasher Films

This study aims at analyzing slasher films as potential allegories for the therapeutic process of uncovering trauma, proposing a reading of the slasher killer as a metaphor for the trauma. To perform this analysis, the plots of the movies A Nightmare on Elm Street (Bayer, 2010) and Final Girls (Schulsson, 2015), were read as possible allegories for a psychoanalytical process in which their final girls come to terms with trauma as they face the killers. This analysis is performed based on the slasher film structure as composed by Final Girl versus Slasher killer, as defined by Carol Clover (1992), and, as their confrontation takes place in what Clover calls the Terrible place, that is compared to the unconscious and its dynamics, as proposed by Sigmund Freud’s The Ego and the Id (2019). The correlation of trauma and fictional narratives is performed based on Cathy Caruth’s (1996) studies of trauma and the construction of narratives.

scholarly journals Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Treatment Overview and Empirical Basis

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Abbass ◽  
Joel M. Town ◽  
Ellen Driessen
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Dynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Character Structure ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Research Findings

Based on over forty years of videotaped case-based research, Habib Davanloo of McGill University, Canada, discovered some of the core ingredients that can enable direct and rapid access to the unconscious in resistant3 patients, patients with func-tional disorders, and patients with fragile character structure. We will describe here some of the main research findings that culminated in his description of a central therapeutic process involved in the intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) model. We will also describe the evolution of the technique over the past thirty years and summarize the empirical base for Davanloo’s ISTDP.

scholarly journals Modern Neuropsychoanalysis as an Integrative Scientific and Therapeutic Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
E.G. Eidemiller ◽  
A.E. Tarabanov
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Incoming Flow ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Therapeutic Practice ◽  
Building Models ◽  
The World ◽  
Neural Interactions ◽  
The Brain

We present the analysis of the main provisions of neuropsychoanalysis — a theory integrating psychoanalysis and neurosciences. The main prerequisites for the emergence of neuropsychoanalysis are described. Being developed along the principles of integration and convergence of sciences, neuropsychoanalysis faces complex theoretical and practical challenges, such as explaining the results of neuroscientific studies, building models of brain and psyche relationship and interpreting therapeutic process from the point of view of neural interactions. Neuropsychoanalysis as an integrative psychotherapeutic paradigm has been proven clinically usable; it helps form a new neurobiological perspective of psychotherapeutic relations. We emphasize the phenomenon of interpretation, which is essential both for understanding the functioning of the brain, building the models of the self and the world on the basis of interpreting the incoming flow of signals, and for effective therapeutic practice, where the client reinterprets and integrates traumatic narratives by incorporating repressed content of the unconscious contents.

The Slasher Film

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-202
Author(s):  
Bryan Turnock
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Slasher Film ◽  
Slasher Films ◽  
Lasting Influence

This chapter argues that of all the horror genre's many strands and variations, the original 'slasher' cycle of the 1970s and early 1980s remains the most disreputable and critically vilified, yet its commercial popularity and lasting influence are unquestionable. Whilst rarely making out-and-out slashers themselves, major Hollywood studios cashed in by buying finished films from their independent producers, giving the makers an instant profit and the studios a cheap marketable film virtually guaranteed an audience of teenagers. The chapter examines a film frequently cited as a forerunner of the slasher, one heavily influenced by the Italian giallo genre of crime fiction. In diverging from the established conventions of the giallo, Mario Bava's Bay of Blood (1971) introduced a number of narrative and aesthetic features found in many of the slasher films that followed. The chapter then considers the influence of the video industry on the evolution of the horror genre (and vice versa), and looks at the issue of censorship as it assesses the British 'video nasties' scare of the early 1980s.

Personal Therapy and the Student Therapist

1986 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 304-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy Glass
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Emotional Problems ◽  
Clinical Results ◽  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Therapy Outcome ◽  
Personal Therapy ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Blind Spots

The effect of a therapist's personal psychotherapy on patient therapy outcome appears to be mixed. Some studies have shown that experienced, analysed therapists obtain better clinical results, but experience seems to be the important factor. Others have found no difference regardless of the therapist's personal therapy. Considerations favoring personal therapy include: awareness of the unconscious and of countertransference, increased empathy, minimizing blind spots, validating theory and method by first hand experience, and understanding how one's own defenses interfere with the therapeutic process. Those against personal therapy affirm there is no direct effect on competence, and there may even be detrimental effects (during residency); for example, inexperienced therapists in personal therapy appear to be less available to their patients because of their own preoccupations. Students’ tendencies to identify with their analysts and pressure to conform in an analytic milieu might tend to decrease the number of therapists with varied orientations. The boundary between supervision and personal therapy is often unclear. In both, similar techniques may be used, but the goal of supervision should be to help the student to understand emotional problems and resistances which might interfere with the therapeutic process. Supervisors should make a compromise between purely didactic and therapeutic approaches. Despite the lack of conclusive evidence, supervisors should be encouraged to be less neutral and give advice and information to trainees who are in need of or who ask about personal therapy. “Physician, heal thyself” Book of Luke, 4:23

ECP02-02 - Culture and ethnicity as a variable in diagnostics and therapy

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1796-1796
Author(s):  
A. Qureshi
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Diagnostic Categories ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
Group Members ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Treatment Culture

Ethnic minority and immigrant patients are subject to what are termed “health disparities” wherein the quality of services received is not at the same level as that of majority group members. These disparities are a consequence of both erroneous diagnosis and, relatedly, inadequate treatment. Culture impacts both diagnosis and therapy by circumscribing how an individual understands distress. The experience, expression, and explanation of what psychiatry understands to be psychopathology are eminently “cultural”, for the clinician as well as for the patient. The very identification of a “symptom”, its relationship to psychopathology, and even what constitutes the specific diagnostic categories is in large part a function of the impact of these three “exes”. The therapeutic process and relationship is impacted in part by the fourth “ex”, the expectations of both clinician and patient, and, once again, when distinct can lead to early termination and/or poor outcome. Ethnicity, particularly in the context of ethnic minority status, can impact both diagnosis and treatment in the context of both overt and covert prejudice, particularly on the part of the clinician. Ethnocultural countertransference involves the unconscious projection of ethnic and racial prejudice onto the patient, which has a direct impact on diagnosis and the development of the therapeutic relationship. The presentation will review both barriers and suggest strategies for effective intercultural diagnosis and treatment.

“You're All Doomed!” A Socioeconomic Analysis of Slasher Films

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 953-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
KARA M. KVARAN
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Socioeconomic Analysis ◽  
Slasher Film ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Slasher Films ◽  
American Economy

This paper posits a socioeconomic explanation for the popularity of the slasher film genre. These films created a unique sub-genre in which teenage protagonists had to contend with unstoppable forces, in the form of manic killers, while every aspect of modernity and the middle-class lifestyle failed them. Cars and telephones die, the suburbs offer no sanctuary, and adults are absent or ineffectual. The slasher genre rose in popularity as the American economy spiraled into recession. By examining the big three franchises of Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street this paper analyzes the slasher films of the 1980s and their remakes in the late 2000s. It argues that slasher films symbolized a cathartic release for their mainly adolescent audiences at a time in their lives when impending adulthood and an unfavorable economic climate seemed to conspire against them.

The effect of an aluminum heat-sink layer on the laser-induced amorphization of SiOx/TeGeSn/SiOx phase-change recording films

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 574-575
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Libera ◽  
Martin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Phase Change ◽  
Heat Sink ◽  
Multilayer Film ◽  
Glassy Phase ◽  
Film Structure ◽  
Glass Forming ◽  
Active Storage ◽  
Dielectric Layers ◽  
Amorphous States

Phase-change erasable optical storage is based on the ability to switch a micron-sized region of a thin film between the crystalline and amorphous states using a diffraction-limited laser as a heat source. A bit of information can be represented as an amorphous spot on a crystalline background, and the two states can be optically identified by their different reflectivities. In a typical multilayer thin-film structure the active (storage) layer is sandwiched between one or more dielectric layers. The dielectric layers provide physical containment and act as a heat sink. A viable phase-change medium must be able to quench to the glassy phase after melting, and this requires proper tailoring of the thermal properties of the multilayer film. The present research studies one particular multilayer structure and shows the effect of an additional aluminum layer on the glass-forming ability.

Establishing a Group Educational Session for Hyperacusis Patients

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
Ann E. Perreau ◽  
Richard S. Tyler ◽  
Patricia C. Mancini ◽  
Shelley Witt ◽  
Mohamed Salah Elgandy
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Clinical Group ◽  
Education Session ◽  
Group Approach ◽  
Treatment Protocols ◽  
Educational Session ◽  
Evidence Based Treatment ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Audiologists should be treating hyperacusis patients. However, it can be difficult to know where to begin because treatment protocols and evidence-based treatment studies are lacking. A good place to start in any tinnitus and hyperacusis clinic is to incorporate a group educational session. Method Here, we outline our approach to establishing a hyperacusis group educational session that includes specific aspects of getting to know each patient to best meet their needs, understanding the problems associated with hyperacusis, explaining the auditory system and the relationship of hyperacusis to hearing loss and tinnitus, describing the influence of hyperacusis on daily life, and introducing treatment options. Subjective responses from 11 adults with hyperacusis, who participated in a recent clinical group education session, were discussed to illustrate examples from actual patients. Conclusions Due to the devastating nature of hyperacusis, patients need to be reassured that they are not alone and that they can rely on audiologists to provide support and guidance. A group approach can facilitate the therapeutic process by connecting patients with others who are also affected by hyperacusis, and by educating patients and significant others on hyperacusis and its treatment options. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.8121197

AAC Collaboration Using the Self-Anchored Rating Scales (SARS): An Aphasia Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 136-143
Author(s):  
Lynn E. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Family Counseling ◽  
The Self ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Solution Focused

Abstract The self-anchored rating scale (SARS) is a technique that augments collaboration between Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) interventionists, their clients, and their clients' support networks. SARS is a technique used in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, a branch of systemic family counseling. It has been applied to treating speech and language disorders across the life span, and recent case studies show it has promise for promoting adoption and long-term use of high and low tech AAC. I will describe 2 key principles of solution-focused therapy and present 7 steps in the SARS process that illustrate how clinicians can use the SARS to involve a person with aphasia and his or her family in all aspects of the therapeutic process. I will use a case study to illustrate the SARS process and present outcomes for one individual living with aphasia.

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