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Movies and Mental Illness

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This book was exactly what it says it is. It gives you hundreds of movies and explains what mental illnesses are depicted or meant to be depicted. It does not go into great detail about each mental illness, its primary focus is on movies. It definitely wanted to make me watch several of the movies discussed or re-watch movies because of things I had missed. Good book overall.

Excellent way to introduce diagnosis to new Graduate students. It helps reduce the "overwhelming" aspect of new information.

I'm a writer, was looking at this book for research....found it a curious mix of fact, movie lore, and psychology/psychiatry. It's not an in depth analysis on any one kind of mental illnes, but think anyone interested in these topics would find the book readable, interesting, and thought provoking.

Although I use this book to assign movies for my students in abnormal psychology, I was disappointed that it leaned a bit toward the Hollywood versions of disorders. Several of my students watched 'The Secret Window' and all were led to believe he had a multiple personality disorder, which was definitely not the case. When I looked for how this book labeled it - it just stated "Identity meets the Sixth Sense" - Not too accurate. SO if you will be using this to point out "realistic" representations of mental disorders be careful which movies you choose as plots can be extremely confusing to the general public who begin naming disorders in which they have no background.

Dr Ann

The well worn copy of this text arrived on time. It has become a classic in the teaching of mental health treatment. Learning to diagnose people in context is essential.