Movies and Mental Illness

The popular, critically acclaimed text on psychopathology in movies – now including the latest movies and more

• Explores films according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM-5 and ICD-11
• Provides psychological ratings of nearly 1,500 films
• Includes downloadable teaching materials

Films can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology – for practitioners and students in fields as diverse as psychology, psychiatry, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, literature, or media studies, and for anyone interested in mental health. Watching films relevant to mental health can actually help you become a more productive therapist and a more astute diagnostician. Movies and Mental Illness, written by an eminent clinical psychologist (who is also a movie aficionado), has established a reputation as a uniquely enjoyable and highly memorable text for learning about psychopathology.

This new edition has been completely revised to explore current issues, such as children’s screentime and celebrities with mental illness, and to include the numerous fil

Platform:

OvidSP

Publisher:

Hogrefe Publishing GmbH

Product Type:

Book

Author:

Danny Wedding

ISBN:

978-0-88-937553-6

Specialty:

• Social Psychology
• Psychology

Language:

English

Edition:

5th Ed.

Pages:

514

Publication Year:

2023

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