SP TOP: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY/CINEMA

Catalog description

This course will seek to encourage critical thinking not only about what psychopathology is but also how it is portrayed in the powerful medium of film. Specifically, this course will use a variety of films to illustrate both psychopathology and its treatment in order to give the topic a human dimension and added complexity that is not possible in a traditional psychopathology course. In addition, students will be required to evaluate the accuracy of these portrayals and how the time period in which they were written or produced might influence them.