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I run an SSC (student selected component) for medical students called 'Psychiatry and Film' and am always after new ideas for what films I should show! Any ideas on films that are favourites and the w
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Films that depict psychiatry...good or bad
posted at 19/1/2012 7:24 PM GMT
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I run an SSC (student selected component) for medical students called 'Psychiatry and Film' and am always after new ideas for what films I should show! Any ideas on films that are favourites and the worst of the bunch? For schizophrenia for me - best is 'Some Voices' starring Daniel Craig before he was James Bond...worst (a film I hate) is 'Me Myself and Irene' with Jim Carrey.
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Re: Films that depict psychiatry...good or bad
posted at 19/1/2012 11:28 PM GMT
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There is a recent movie about a borderline which I understand is well done. However, most general psychiatry is about not the psychotic, the homocidal paranoid schizophrenics, people with 14 and 3/4 personalities, the seriously luny but about people with depression, anxiety, adjustment disorders, grief, abuse etc which makes for dull watching eg Mrs Jones age 74 with depression and interpersonal problems with her daughter-in-law and coping with her dementing husband who urinates in cupboards. Movies like extremes. That is why so many are about murders, nubile girls holding 45 magnums in both hands when a strong soldier needs both hands for one pistol. It is all fairy floss (sugar candy or cotton candy). One flew over the Cuckoe's Nest was good. The book, Cancer Ward which is not psychiatric was in the same genre. I don't want to pay money to see my work. I sail for sanity.
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Re: Films that depict psychiatry...good or bad
posted at 20/1/2012 9:16 PM GMT
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Already mentioned but a Beautiful Mind was tremendous. I would strongly recommend Awakenings, whilst not strictly about Psychiatry Oliver Sacks is a brilliant writer and his 'pathography' of patients emotional and mental health issues is written in the most clear, compassionate and thoughtful way. His belief in proper case histories encompassing the whole person is superb, understanding, detailed and thoughtful. He has also written 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' - again not strictly about Psychiatry it describes the very human emotions and adaptive behaviour his patients exhibit with such humility and strength is worth a read for any doctor. |
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Re: Films that depict psychiatry...good or bad
posted at 21/1/2012 12:17 AM GMT
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I can't believe I didn't mention One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Great Movie - Jack at his best. Did anyone else see Stutter Island? It reviewed badly, but I liked it very much. Rain Man? Another great movie; not sure if severe autism reaches the realm of psychiatry, perhaps more psychology? Identity? I liked this - quite chilling in places, and loosely tied into Psychiatry. The Color (sic) of Night - TERRIBLE movie, with a psychiatric underpinning. And of course, Basic Instinct. Is there a film of the man who mistook his wife for a hat???
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