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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by jegol71[/i] [br]We dream and recollect through personal movies directed by the mind's eye. It is the only medium that can project a superposition of human life to any person. I write films, and stumbled upon a website for a therapist who treats clients by having them watch movies that relate to their struggles. Or, as I call it, THE DREAM JOB. The movies are indexed according to specific issues, from dealing with mental disorders to incest to anxiety. You can click on a topic that is important to you, and see which films explore it. Not necessarily TMS-related, but I know that people will benefit from this. Movies aren't just Hollywood legerdemain to turn a profit, like the schlocky Transformers films of late. They are a collective measure of soft science, art and psychology divining to tell the perfect story, the one that you take on. Movies are generally 2-2.5 hours because that represents the maximum convergence of attention span and narrative meaning that can be achieved holographically in front of a screen. Studying screenwriting has given me a better context to explain the transformative power of John Sarno's work to myself. If you are dealing with any issues, I recommend this website and a good popcorn box. http://cinematherapy.com/filmindex.html One that I would recommend to defer to the complexity of the human panorama and surviving its mystery would be Abbas Kiarostami's "CLOSE UP," an Iranian film from 1990 about a sick, impoverished man who impersonates a famous director to a wealthy family, who are then cast by this director to recreate the events in retrospect, providing a fake real catharsis. Human life is like that, particularly as we heal or think we have. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.