The Power of Comics in Therapy for Children and Teens

There's a psychologist out there who uses comic books, but specifically Batman comic books in his therapy for children and teens. Dr. Patrick O'Connor was based in Charlotte, North Carolina at a practice called Southie Psych. But now he is actually teaching in Chicago as a teacher. And essentially what he was doing was using story and storytelling as a way of creating safety for people to get in touch with their own emotions because it's much safer to project your own experiences and feelings onto another character than it is sometimes to talk about him yourself.

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