| Articles published byBirgit Wolz, Ph.D., MFT
 Mining the Gold in Movies for Healing 
              and Transformation: Birgit has published the following
              cinema therapy movie reviews in her regular column by that 
              name in The Therapist, the magazine 
              of The California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. 28 Days         
	    50/50
 About Schmidt
 Affliction
 An Education
 Antwone Fisher
 As Good As it Gets
 Bastard out of Carolina
 Before Sunset
 Beginners
 Bridge to Terabithia
 Brokeback Mountain
 Bend it like Beckham
 Changing Lanes
 Descendants, The
 Dogwalker, The
 Eat Drink Man Woman
 Flight
 Frida
 Fried Green Tomatoes
 Grand Canyon
 Good Will Hunting
 Hope Springs
 Hugo
 In America
 It's Kind of a Funny Story
 Joneses, The
 Lars and the Real Girl
 Last Chance Harvey
 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
 Lorenzo's Oil
 Milk
 Mommie Dearest
 Moneyball
 My Big Fat Greek Wedding
 My Left Foot
 Ordinary People
 Pride and Prejudice
 Prime
 Ray
 Rachel Getting Married
 The Secret Lives of Dentists
 The Secret World of Arrietty
 Sliding Doors
 Truman Show, The
 Under the Tuscan Sun
 Up
 Up in the Air
 Upside of Anger, The
 Visitor, The
 What's Eating Gilbert Grape
 When Did You Last See Your Father?
 Woman in Black, The
         
  	                                   	     
 Additional articles
	          published by Birgit: Cinema Alchemy: Using the Power of Films In Psychotherapy and Coaching. In Mary Banks Gregerson (Editor), The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching. Springer, New York, 2010.  'Reel' Reality Is Essence of Cinema Therapy,The Advocate, the monthly newsletter of the American Mental Health Counselors Association, a nonprofit association based in Alexandria, Virginia, July 2006.  Cinema Alchemy - Using the Power of
	      Film for Healing and Transformation, Harbin Hot
	      Springs Quarterly, Summer 2004, and the Inland
	      Empire Chapter of CAMFT News, July 2004. Cinema Therapy: Using the Power of
              Movies for the Therapeutic Process: versions of this article have
              appeared in: 
              Viewpoint, Jan. - Feb. 2003
                (newsletter of The Psychotherapy Institute).The Therapist, May 2003
                (magazine of The California Association of Marriage
                and Family Therapists). Releasing Negative Beliefs Through
                the Transformational Power of Film: The East Bay Therapist,
                July/August 2004 (newsletter of East Bay Chapter
                — California Association of Marriage &
                Family Therapists) and in News and Views -
                newsletter of Orange County CAMFT,
                Sept. 2004. The Transformational Power of
                  Film: versions of this
                  article have appeared in: 
              Connections, Feb. 2003 (newsletter of 
                San Fernando Valley Chapter — California Association 
                of Marriage & Family Therapists).The Monterey County Chapter Newsletter 
                of California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, 
                Feb. 2003.The East Bay Therapist, Mar./Apr. 
                2003 (newsletter of East Bay Chapter — California 
                Association of Marriage & Family Therapists).The International Academy of
                Family Psychology, July 2003 Newsletter. Using Movies to Transform
                 Grief: this article is based on a chapter from a
                 new book, E-Motion Picture Magic,
                 published in November 2004 by Glenbridge Publishing.   
 Birgit Wolz wrote and co-wrote the following continuing education online courses:
             Cinema Therapy - Using the Power of Movies In the Therapeutic Process, which guides the reader through the basic principles of Cinema Therapy.  Boundaries and the Movies - Learning about Therapeutic Boundaries through the Movies, which covers informed consent, gifts, home office, clothing, language, humor and silence, proximity and distance between therapist and client, and, finally, sexual relations between therapist and client. Cinema Therapy Certificate programs are described here       |