Reel therapy: can films make us feel better?

The healing powers of cinema has had a leading role in the celebration of the Wellcome Trust 75 years of medicine at the screen

last weekend, the Wellcome Trust celebrated 75 years of medicine at the screen with transformation of the Truman Brewery in a hospital in 1980 with a therapy in the film. Here, visitors were offered consultation with a "doctor" who prescribed a good dose of this film to cure your malaise. I suspected for a long time the only effective treatment for colds is repeated dose of romantic comedy that will be applied on the couch, but the film can really make us feel better?

that land on a blue plastic chair and thumb of one copy of the 80 Smash Hits, waiting for the doctor. The walls are full of ads exposing the dangers of smoking during pregnancy (low birth rate), and smoking before kissing (less likely to repeat the kiss). Fill in the form of medical assessment, take me across the room.

Unfortunately, the doctor did nothing to help heal an eye infection that has bothered me recently. Instead, I offer you something to help reduce alcohol. He put me in a hospital bed behind a green screen and gives a pair of headphones. My recipe, a film of Public Health with a group of twentysomethings get angry at the pub, begins.

First, a waitress said the leader of that beer will make you fat. Then the girls in the steering group, rejected by his intoxication. I think you have a good time. And the girls seem spoilers. Meanwhile, my friend Claire was prescribed a cartoon clip with the toes to talk to each other about the uncomfortable shoes for the treatment of their shopaholism. A few minutes to talk about clothes, so I think I probably need a higher dose.

• Our treatments may have been ineffective, but may make the film more generally, to improve our health and well-being? In a roundabout way, the film affects our health. Films like Michael Moore's Sicko and one of them is named Brett (a documentary about the location of the event, Roger Graef, children of thalidomide) can change attitudes and, ultimately, government policy. Film can also inspire us to take better care of ourselves. What could have been "Oh, just a strange bump" could become "Oh, just a fun all should get checked out" after a couple of hours crying in front of Terms of Endearment. Similarly, the film can be bad for you. Hollywood has long been the school as the kid cool his mother preferred not to spend time. Smoke, then smoke. He is hungry for a size 0, so we have developed a healthy body image. No seat belt use in high speed car chases, so do not wear when they jump out of milk.

But the film can act as an emotional balm. Oil life could help parents agree to have a sick child. The Lost Weekend has helped people understand alcoholism. My left foot has great potential to help someone overcome a disability. Men, in which Marlon Brando played a paraplegic war veteran below, it has inspired many disabled veterans to live more life. The film can show us that we are not alone in our experiments. Consider the story of Norman Cousins, a journalist who Groucho Marx movies prescribed to induce anesthesia belly laugh. This just makes me feel better.

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