Video Intervention Therapy: Help in Psychotherapy for Relationships
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : September 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 224
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98207
- ISBN 13 : 9781041024477
- ISBN 10 : 1041024479
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This book offers a comprehensive guide to using video intervention in psychotherapy or mental health coaching. A video is made of a patient interacting with someone else. The patient and the therapist then explore it together, profiting from its rich information.
Downing clearly elaborates each step of such an intervention. Numerous possible techniques are described. If and when to bring in more such sessions is explained. How in couple or family therapy to use such work is covered as well.
The book is designed so that any therapist or mental health coach can begin with video intervention at once. This is invaluable reading for anyone wanting to start in and to build up increasing expertise with this significant contribution to therapeutic work.
Reviews and Endorsements
Essential reading for clinicians and those training to be clinicians.
Howard Steele, Professor of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York
George Downing has a profound understanding of the role of nonverbal communication in therapeutic action. His unique way of using this nonverbal layer for treatment informs our way of working with infants, children, and adults. I highly recommend this important book.
Beatrice Beebe, Professor of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
After more than 20 years of collaboration with George Downing, each time our clinic team has a training session with him I still gain new insights. This book wonderfully captures the core of Downing’s teachings.
Corinna Reck, Professor of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. How and When to Begin with Video Sessions
2. When a Patient is Reluctant to Work with a Video
3. How the Therapist Prepares For the Session
4. Procedure Step One: Starting the Session
5. Procedure Step Two: Showing Positive Patterns
6. Procedure Step Three: Making the Transition
7. Procedure Step Three: The Outer Movie
8. Procedure Step Three: The Inner Movie
9. Procedure Step Three: Mentalization
10. Procedure Step Three: Working with the Relational Effects of Trauma 11. Procedure Step Four: Planning for Change
12. Getting Started
13. Other Video Intervention Methods
14. Observing Videos: The Body Alone
15. Observing Videos: The Language Exchange
16. Observing Videos: Spoken Mentalization
About the Author(s)
George Downing, Ph.D., worked for years as a psychologist in Child Psychiatry, Salpetriere Hospital, Paris. He has taught Video Intervention Therapy for clinical teams at the New School for Social Research, New York; the University of Heidelberg, the University of Saarbruken, and Ludwig Maxmillian University, Munich, Germany; the University of Basel, Switzerland; the Universities of Milan and Bologna, Italy; and the University of Girona, Spain.
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