This book explores how experiences of traumatic isolation and neglect - in childhood and in adulthood, and at both the family and the state level - may create a desire in us to be parented by certain kinds of screen media that we unconsciously believe may be "watching over" us when nothing else seems to be.

Andrew Asibong, PhD, is a psychotherapist and film theorist. He is a member of the Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and a registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council.

1. It's a hard world for little things: Post-traumatic attachments to the eerily moving image: a theoretical framework 2. I just wanted to tell you that everything's going to be all right: My life in the bush of film-ghosts: an autoethnographic analysis 3. May I be alive when I die!: Psycho-televisual regeneration six feet under: an audience study 4. In this here place, we flesh: Racialised vulnerability and collective dreaming: film groups in the time of #BlackLivesMatter