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.
