Looking for Yesterday
- 1978 ----- color ----- 29 min ----- 16mm
- Capturing the pain of life in a nursing home, this film explores the feelings of severely disoriented residents with organic brain syndrome. Demonstrates how fantasy can be an important therapeutic vehicle for their adjustment to institutionalized living. Dramatic footage offers an on-camera demonstration of Validation/Fantasy Therapy as a skillful group worker enters the inner world of these disoriented aged to gain insight into the logic behind their fantasies.
- Topics: (Gerontology, Mental Illness, Social Work: Health Care)
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