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The article presents the results of a research of the influence of a 5 days long cinematherapy session on psychological defense of a personality. The purpose of the article is to study the possibility of using film therapy as a method of correcting the psychological defense of a person. Two forming experiments were performed, differing in the stimuli material. To assess the experiment results, we used the DSQ by M. Bond, the defense measurement technique by [Pilyugina-Suleymanov], as well as the method for identifying self-attitude by Stolin-Pantileev, the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) by Cattell, and the test to study driver’s frustration reactions by S. Rosenzweig. The results showed that experiment 2 (“absurdity factor”) was more efficient, giving 2.5 times more positive shifts than the experiment 1 (“heroism factor”). A conclusion is made that cinematherapy as a method of defense correction in a young age is expedient.
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Pilyugina, E., Suleymanov, R. Cinematherapy as a method of correction of a personality psychological defense at a young age. Curr Psychol 43, 1020–1029 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04330-9
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