The Motion Picture Prescription: Watch This Movie and Call Me in the Morning: 200 Movies to Help You Heal Life's Problems

by Gary Solomon

Offers plot summaries and comments on movies with healing themes, from "About Last Night" and "Baby Boom" to "Terms of Endearment" and "Wall Street"

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

241 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1995

Reviews

[Daniel Petra · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book confirms what I have been practicing for years. Movies are an absolutely wonderful way not only to entertain ourselves but also to receive a huge amount of inspiration. Good movies can actually raise our spirits and heal us in many ways: sometimes consciously sometimes sub-consciously. This is what I wrote about in Missing Links, pages 268 and 269:
Benefitting from inspiring movies
Entertaining and inspiring movies are the result of a collective process of creativity which may involve some of the most talented and creative people on our planet. As I have already shared in Chapter 12, I tend to agree completely with Shakespeare when he writes in As You Like It, ( II, 7):“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
Quite often I don’t know where life ends and theatre begins and vice versa, and ... quite frankly, I no longer care. A wonderful example of this can be found in Robert Altman’s film Cookie’s Fortune, starring Glenn Close, Julianne More & Co. I find that life is a never-ending adventure and that
good movies are a wonderful extension of our lives. Movies and theatre are a wonderful way to learn more about ourselves, about others and about the world in which we live. At the same time we are also being entertained. I often refer to movies because they are easily accessible to most of us. They can be viewed in our homes, and we can enjoy them even when we are tired. When I buy movies I try to buy only those movies that inspire me, that educate me and that I find entertaining. The movies I watch over and over, are the movies that are the most entertaining and the most inspiring. I find that movies are one of the most readily available and one of most effective sources of information, entertainment and inspiration. For more on this I refer you to the book The Motion Picture Prescription, by Gary Solomon.

[Inklusi Film · Rating 5 out of 5]

for education cinema therapy

[Semi-Academic Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had this sitting near our movies for years, before we moved and packed it all up into different boxes. Recently, I was doing some research and came across this article about "cinema therapy" https://www.addiction.com/blogs/a-z/c... and it reminded me of this book.

This really seems to help.

And, I am concerned that one can get so caught up in watching that we can end up not doing much about that through which we are going.

How do we find that balance now?

[Tessa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best of both worlds.. film and psychology. This was written for me.