https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211017342 Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1–9 © The Author(s) 2021 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/00221678211017342 journals.sagepub.com/home/jhp Special Issue: Film as Cultural Therapeutics Introduction to the Special Issue on the Cultural Therapeutics of Film Eric Greene 1 and Nisha Gupta 2 Abstract This interdisciplinary special issue explores the synergy between psychotherapy and filmmaking—particularly how film can serve as a powerful healing function by bringing voice, representation, and light to the all-too-often overlooked and shadowed aspects of psychological and cultural life, similar to the work of psychotherapy. To understand the culturally therapeutic aspects of filmmaking, this issue features psychological and cinematic insights from two fields of experts and their crafts: scholars and their writing and filmmakers and their films. The unique approach of this special issue provides new possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration between psychologists and filmmakers to explore the therapeutic function of film for society as well as avenues for film to address, heal, and transform the pressing cultural issues of our times. Keywords film, psychoanalysis, liberation psychology, critical psychology, phenomenology We are pleased to bring to you this special issue of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology about the culturally therapeutic aspects of filmmaking. For this project, we gathered contributions from scholars and filmmakers about how 1 Self, Los Angeles, LA, USA 2 University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA, USA Corresponding Author: Eric Greene, Self, 2558 corralitas dr., Los Angeles, LA 90039, USA. Email: ericmatthewgreene@gmail.com 1017342JHP XX X 10.1177/00221678211017342Journal of Humanistic PsychologyGreene and Gupta research-article 2021