Cinematherapy for the Soul: The Girl's Guide to Finding Inspiration One Movie at a Time

Cinematherapy

by Nancy Peske, Beverly West

Has your karma run over your dogma? Are you feeling anxious about the future, or wondering who turned down the dimmer switch on your inner light? The illumination you need is right at your fingertips. Settle into the lotus position, pick up your remote control, and let movies be your spiritual guide on your journey toward personal nirvana. From the bestselling duo who brought you Cinematherapy, Advanced Cinematherapy, Cinematherapy for Lovers , and Bibliotherapy comes CINEMATHERAPY FOR THE SOUL, a video guide guaranteed to help you become your own guru.

With 150 new reviews of classic and contemporary movies and thoughtful quotes to uplift you, CINEMATHERAPY FOR THE SOUL is guaranteed to help you discover that the movies will reinvigorate your tired spirit and help you find inspiration, one movie at a time.

Genres: Nonfiction

221 pages, Paperback

First published February 3, 2004

About the author

Nancy Peske is a freelance writer, author, ghostwriter, and developmental editor, and a former in-house editor at HarperCollins, who has co-written, ghostwritten, and edited many bestsellers and perennial sellers.
Nancy is the coauthor of the successful six-book Cinematherapy series, which has over 270,000 copies in print in all editions including foreign sales to Italy, Germany, China, Korea, Indonesia, and Japan. Television rights for Cinematherapy were sold to Women’s Entertainment, which created a prime-time series based on Cinematherapy that lasted for a decade.
Nancy Peske is also the coauthor of Raising a Sensory Smart Child: A Practical Handbook for Helping Your Child with Sensory Integration Issues, a groundbreaking book that has won a National Parenting Publications Award and an iMedia Parenting Award. The site for Nancy’s spinoff brand, Sensory Smart Parent, is at www.SensorySmartParent.com.
Nancy has worked with Marianne Williamson, Christiane Northrup, David Perlmutter, John Gray, Dean Ornish, Julie Morgenstern, Julia Ross, Colette Baron-Reid, Alberto Villoldo, and other top authors.
She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with her husband and son.

Reviews

[Douglas Lord · Rating 1 out of 5]

Peske and West have collaborated on three previous "Cinematherapy" collections; this one suggests 150 flicks to change mood (or, as the authors rather dramatically put it, to "inspire, refresh, uplift, and reinvigorate your tired spirit"). The chapters are thematically organized (e.g., "Your Soul Mate") and contain brief entries summarizing movies and postulating why they will help readers. Some of the comments are crude. such as "pour some tequila shots, watch Frida and celebrate your own palette of possibilities," and though most of the films discussed would be considered chick flicks, occasionally gender-neutral stuff (e.g., Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone) surfaces. Recipes and movie quotes are interspersed throughout. Remember that this was designed as a gift book--it has a limited readership, a brief shelf life, and a lack of the critical perspective needed for an actual tool. Not recommended; consider the many existing alternatives, like Video-Hound's Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever.

[Kelly]

It's awesome the things you find when you unpack or more like repack boxes that haven't been opened in 5+ years!