Testoni Ines, Tomasella Elena, Pompele Sara, Mascarin Maurizio, Wieser Michael Alexander
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Oncological Reference Center (CRO), Aviano, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2020 May 12;11:966. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00966. eCollection 2020.
PhotoTherapy represents a recent psychotherapeutic intervention which, through the medium of photography, has the objective of helping a patient reach a higher self-knowledge and explore thoughts, desires, and intimate perceptions that would otherwise remain hidden. Because of this, it may help people overcome their cognitive and emotional boundaries and bring out their interiority, even when exploring some of the most distressing themes. The objective of the present research was to demonstrate that the elaboration and expression of inner desires, fears and needs of wellbeing among adolescents and young adults, who were either sick or had been cured of cancer, could be facilitated through the use of PhotoTherapy. Their responses were also compared with those of healthy young adults, in order to be able to explore the kind of impact such a pathology can have on those who are affected by it and highlight eventual differences in the kind of desires and needs expressed instead by those who never had a diagnosis of cancer. A qualitative research design was adopted. 45 people took part in the study, aged between 12 and 25 (mean age 19). The participants were divided into three groups: those currently being treated for cancer, those with a history of cancer and those who had no experience of cancer (third group). From the data analysis, different preferences and attitudes toward the presented pictures and themes emerged among the participants, depending on the specific group they belonged to. The article discusses these preferences and considers how PhotoTherapy can help treat psychological distress caused by cancer.
摄影疗法是一种近期出现的心理治疗干预方法，它借助摄影这一媒介，旨在帮助患者获得更高层次的自我认知，探索那些原本会隐藏起来的思想、欲望和内心感受。正因如此，即使在探索一些最令人痛苦的主题时，它也可能帮助人们突破认知和情感界限，展现出内心世界。本研究的目的是证明，对于身患癌症或已治愈癌症的青少年和年轻人来说，通过摄影疗法能够促进他们对内心欲望、恐惧和幸福需求的阐述与表达。他们的反应还与健康的年轻人进行了比较，以便能够探究这种疾病对患者的影响，并突出那些从未被诊断患有癌症的人在表达欲望和需求方面最终可能存在的差异。本研究采用了定性研究设计。45人参与了该研究，年龄在12岁至25岁之间（平均年龄19岁）。参与者被分为三组：目前正在接受癌症治疗的人、有癌症病史的人以及没有癌症经历的人（第三组）。通过数据分析，参与者对所展示的图片和主题呈现出不同的偏好和态度，这取决于他们所属的具体组别。本文讨论了这些偏好，并思考摄影疗法如何有助于治疗由癌症引起的心理困扰。
