#therapy

[@RaysDad]

I wonder, is there much difference between talk therapy and experiencing great art? I've been watching Andrei Tarkovsky's film Solaris over and over (in translation of course) and each time it feels like a breakthrough therapy session.

[@AnnaFitz]

I love this thought! There are some similarities - you're getting input from an external source and it changes something inside of you. The difference that comes to mind is that with atr, you can't really control/decide what it's going to be that's going to change. In therapy, you choose the direction you want to move :) But I have heard musical theorists say that classical music was meant as a sort of therapy that followed a certain structure leading to catharsis :)