TY - BOOK AU - Walsh,Maria TI - Therapeutic aesthetics: performative encounters in moving image artworks T2 - Radical aesthetics-radical art SN - 9781350093140 AV - RC489.A7 W37 2021eb U1 - 615.8/5156 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London, New York PB - Bloomsbury Academic KW - Art therapy KW - Mental health personnel in motion pictures KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "In this original book, Maria Walsh contends that neo-liberalism has created a world of precarity, in which human beings are expendable products. Even artists, who believed themselves to be separate from commercialism have found themselves labelled as commodities whose work is marketed for financial gain. In order to process this trauma, Walsh identifies several moving-image artists whose work performs therapeutic techniques such as REBT (Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy) and VRET (Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy) that allows viewers to acknowledge and surmount the cases of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder that precarity has wrought upon modern life"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2641130 ER -