Photography as Self-Therapy: An Introduction for Beginners
Photography as Self-Therapy: An Introduction for Beginners By Ellyn Kail on November 3, 2020 © and courtesy Judy Weiser In 1977, Psychology Today published a short blurb about a growing movement: people who were using photographs to help others. During that decade, consumer cameras became widely accessible and easy to use, and at the same time, psychologists, photography enthusiasts, and more started to explore the potential of taking photographs as a therapeutic tool for helping people of all ages improve their lives. One of them was the psychoanalyst Dr. Robert Irwin Wolf, then the clin...