![]() ![]() ![]() In order to understand better the therapeutic value of photographs, I will also look at how ordinary people have used photographs in a therapeutic way which is the main focus of chapter two. Thus chapter one is devoted to the question of how phototherapy was developed and what came to influence this development. Here the influence of psychoanalysis had to be taken into account as well as the rise of feminism in 1960s-1970s. From there I explored how photography came to be invented and how its therapeutic potential came to be discovered within psychiatry. In order to find the answer, I began to explore the 19th century paintings and medical drawings in the hope that they could reveal some connections to phototherapy. What came to be even more important in the end was to reveal how phototherapy was developed. Since it seemed that there was some confusion over the terms I wanted my thesis to draw a distinction between these two. Thus, I began to be more intrigued in actual phototherapy and therapeutic photography. For me personally photography has been helpful in order to cope with the challenges that I have faced moving between countries for the last ten years. Before I had even been reading about phototherapy, I was using my own photographs in this kind of context. ![]() My interest in the field of work which I will be discussing in this thesis has also been very important in my own photographic work. ![]()
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