Film/VideoBased Therapy and Editing as Process from a Depth Psychological Perspective Josh Cohen Ph.D. Penelope Orr, PhD, ATR-BC  Abstract In order to explore the complex and often irrational aspects of the unconscious, one needs a language. My dissertation showed interviews with therapists using film/video-based therapy revealed many perspectives on how and why to use film and video within therapy showed how the language of film matters to people and that it can help in the healing process by telling their stories. This chapter is an attempt to refine, criticize, and improve upon a theory of film/video-based therapy in which the medium and art of editing film can be a language of the unconscious form in  a communicative storytelling event. Keywords:Depth Psychology, trauma, James Hillman, Joseph Campbell, Clinical, psychology,Video editing

Dr. Cohen is clinically trained as a researcher from Pacifica Graduate Institute and Walden University. He has experience as a film/video editor. His expertise includes “A” list work in Hollywood with significant people in the film world and is also on the board of the Los Angeles County Psychological Association’s nonprofit foundation and staff with the Kolnoam school of cinema therapy. Dr. Cohen’s clinical experience involves working with people of several populations.

Dr. Penny Orr is a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist and an Art Therapy Credentialed Supervisor. Dr. Orr is the past president of the ATCB board, Co-Director of the Edinboro Masters in Counseling/Art Therapy and a practicing Art Therapist. She has been teaching in higher education for the past 12 years and has worked with many populations as an art therapist. Dr. Orr has co-published two books, written chapters in two books and published many research articles. She has presented her research at regional, national and international conferences in the fields of art therapy, art education, and psychiatry.