Movies & Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology, 2nd ed

Abstract

Reviews the book, Movies & Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology 2nd ed. by Danny Wedding (2005). This is a good elementary psychopathology text written by movie aficionados for use in teaching about DSM-IV's diagnostic categories. It aims to portray entities such as anxiety disorders, dissociative and somatoform disorders, substance abuse, schizophrenia, sleep, eating, and impulse control disorders, violence, and physical and sexual abuse as well as their treatments. The authors do this starting with a discussion of film techniques, misconceptions, and stereotypic themes, all with exemplary films described in the text and in helpful tables. The volume ends with a comprehensive reference to print sources. The book lacks only an overall index to films. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)