Positive Psychology Movies


(Movies for the varieties of the human experience)

 
 

Positive psychology movies teach us about the whole human experience. They help us become aware of our strengths and virtues; they help us understand the suffering of illnesses, and they bring us to embrace the sacred in life.


 

Movies and the human experience


The art of the cinema is no doubt one of the greatest pastimes of the last century. Movies portray the human condition in such a way that can be realistic, insightful, and inspiring. The usefulness and application of movies in having a meaningful impact are virtually limitless.

  1. •Education: portraying conditions; de-stigmatizing mental illness

  2. •Psychotherapy: building relationship, making changes, using role models

  3. •Positive Psychology: Building strengths and virtues; embracing the dark side; facing pain and suffering; understanding true happiness

  4. •Spirituality: distinguishing religion and spirituality; deepening spirituality and enhancing the human condition


Movies are helpful in a variety of settings:

  1. •Classrooms

  2. •Therapy offices

  3. •Consultation and coaching settings

  4. •Church settings

  5. •Leadership and executive conferences

  6. •Seminars and other presentation venues

            


Strengths and Virtues


        
        

Spirituality                   Mental Illness

 

If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

Stanely Kubrick

No art passes our conscience the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings,

deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

Ingmar Bergman

Swedish filmmaker



            Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

Trappist monk




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