Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television ― The Pulse of Our Times

Bridging the divide between humanities and social sciences, Therapy and Emotions in Film and Television: The Pulse of Our Times represents a unique collection of interdisciplinary reflections upon the emotional cultures of contemporary societies. The book contains chapters by leading historians of emotions, scholars in film and television studies, and a pioneering scholar in aging research. The collection opens up questions upon the characteristic features of our 'emotional regimes' and demonstrates possible ways of using films, emotions and therapy as a tool both to shed new light on our emotional realities, identities and sensitivities in their historically contingent frame and to understand their shifting nature. Thus, the collection offers a fresh, insightful look at emotions and society across disciplines from the early years of the twentieth century to the present.

Claudia Wassmann is Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Navarra, Spain. She holds a doctorate in medicine and a PhD in history, and was a filmmaker at German Public Television. She held appointments as post-doctoral researcher at the National Institutes of Health, the Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin.