Photo psychology

Photo psychology or photopsychology is a specialty within psychology dedicated to identifying and analyzing relationships between psychology and photography.[1] Photopsychology traces several points of contact between photography and psychology.[1]

Many forms of photography have been used in psychology including, patient portrait photographs,[2] family photographs,[3][4] ambiguous photographs[5] and photographers' photographs.[6] Forms of psychological practices using photographs include photoanalysis,[3] phototherapy,[4] Walker Visuals,[5] and Reading Pictures.[6]

  1. ^ a b "What is Photo Psychology? | My CMS". photopsychology.com. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  2. ^ Diamond, Hugh W. (2010). "On the Application of Photography to the Physiognomic and Mental Phenomena of Insanity (1856)*". Piscoart. 1: 1–14 – via Unibo.
  3. ^ a b Chalfen, Richard (10 January 1974). "Akeret: Photoanalysis" (PDF). Studies in Visual Communication. 1: 57–60. S2CID 51800591. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 April 2018 – via Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania.
  4. ^ a b "PhotoTherapy & Therapeutic Photography Techniques". PhotoTherapy & Therapeutic Photography Techniques. Retrieved 30 March 2018.
  5. ^ a b Walker, Joel (2009). "The Walker Visuals" (PDF). Cancerologia. 4: 9–18.
  6. ^ a b "What is Reading Pictures? | My CMS". photopsychology.com. Retrieved 30 March 2018.

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