Universal Fairy Tales’ Being Transferred to Local Cinema in Respect to Popular Intercultural Narrative Exchange

Positive Narrative Group Psychotherapy: the use of traditional fairy tales to enhance psychological well-being and growth

BACKGROUND Oral narrative strategies have rarely been applied in the positive psychology domain. Traditional folk and fairy tales are concerned with several concepts that are now scientifically investigated by research on positive psychology, such as resilience, self-realization, personal growth and meaning in life. The aim of this pilot study was to apply a new narrative approach based on fair...

Reflective tales : tracing fairy tales in popular culture through the depiction of maternity in three â•œSnow Whiteâ•š variants

A Book on Therapeutic Storytelling A review of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales and Anima and Animus in Fairy Tales

The book of The Interpretation of Fairy Tales and Anima and Animus in Fairy Tales, is one of the best books that one can read for the study of Jung’s psychology for two reasons: first, the author was one of the best students of Jung and his colleague for years; secondly, it analyzes the symbols and the concepts of Jungian psychology. This book expertly introduces the concepts of shadow, anima, ...

ETS representation of fairy tales

This paper presents a preliminary application of the ETS formalism to the structural representation of Russian fairy tales. We were led to this application through our interest in information retrieval. In addition to introducing a natural multi-level representational view of fairy tales, the ETS formalism suggests an explanation for the mechanism behind plot anticipation by an experienced read...

Why fairy tales are still relevant to today's children.

Are fairy tales outdated to a modernised 21st century society? In 1976, clinical psychologist Professor Bruno Bettelheim wrote a book examining the power and utility of fairy tales in childhood development. Forty years later, his work maintains its importance. Through a Freudian lens, Bettelheim examines the emotional and symbolic facets of traditional children’s fairy tales alongside contempor...