Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychotherapy

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	• Movies And Mental Illness: Using Films To Understand Psychopathology Danny Wedding, Mary Ann Boyd, ... Hogrefe & Huber Publishing, 2005 - 258 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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Fascinating Movie Book

You may think Movies and Mental Illness is a book intended strictly for the mental health professionals and/or educators. Although I do not fall in either of these categories, I was enlightened by the wealth of knowledge offered by this book.

I felt the authors did a remarkable job educating us on mental disorders, the misconceptions associated with them, and the powerful effect film has on public perception of those with mental disorders.

Each chapter discusses a psychological disorder and includes several well-known films that portray each one. The authors showed us a fabricated case history of a lead character in the film with a particular disorder. Also included is the patient's psychological history, behavioral observations, diagnosis, treatment plan, and the prognosis. I found the tables and charts that were included throughout the book to be very helpful and user-friendly.

This book is a useful resource for everyone.

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Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychotherapy

A really fine layman's guide to several prominent mental illnesses where specific films accurately portray manifestations of and reactions to those illnesses. It is now much more enjoyable to watch those films again with a better understanding of what the characters are attempting to portray. Highly recommended to any movie viewer who would like to know more about specific mental illnesses, but aren't able to attend psychiatric Grand Rounds as a physician.

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Psychopathology at the Movies

A good book covering a host of movies across time. Apart from one movie at the beginning of each chapter for a disorder category, not much diagnosis detail. Written by sound researchers in psychotherapy

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Films are a powerful medium for teaching students of psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, counselling and even literature or media studies about psychopathology. The clinical chapters of this book, each of which deals with a category of disorders, are thus all introduced by means of a fabricated case history and a Mini-Mental State Examination. This is followed in each chapter by synopses and scenes from one or more specific, often well-known films to explain and teach students about the most important disorders encountered in clinical practice. Now in an updated edition, this book has established a great reputation as an enjoyable and highly memorable supplementary teaching tool for abnormal psychology classes. Written by experienced clinicians and teachers, it also includes helpful teaching tools such as suggestions for class discussions and questions to consider while viewing films. The new edition of a popular and unique teaching tool - movies as an aid to learning about mental illness! Reviews nearly 1,000 films illustrative of psychopathology!

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