Therapeutic Green Screen Technology: A Case Study
Joe Kavitski, MA,
Abstract
The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate how the green screen process allows patients to explore conscious and unconscious psychological themes and exhibits how using digital technology in a therapeutic context can effectively expand the traditional scope of creative arts therapy. As such, this chapter describes a case study wherein a woman with bipolar disorder wanting to undergo transgender surgery interacted therapeutically with digital green screen technology in an adult inpatient psychiatry setting. The roles of how the green screen functions as a catalyst for uncovering and exploring personal symbols, archetypes, and myths are considered.
Keywords: green screen, media arts, creative arts therapy, cinema therapy, video therapy, digital art making, bipolar, transgender, phoenix archetype