Movies and Mental Illness

Danny Wedding, PhD, MPH, retired from the University of Missouri School of Medicine to become the Associate Dean for Management and International Programs at the California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, San Francisco. In this role, he had oversight responsibility for psychology graduate programs in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Mexico City. He subsequently chaired the Department of Behavioral Science and Neuroscience for the American University of Antigua School of Medicine and served in a variety of roles for the American University of the Caribbean in Sint Maarten. Danny is a retired navy captain who was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, working in the Senate, and an APA Congressional Science Fellow, working in the House of Representatives. He is the former editor of PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology - APA Review of Books, the senior editor for Hogrefe's book series on Advances in Psychotherapy: Evidence-Based Practice, and the coauthor of Positive Psychology at the Movies. Danny's best-known book is Current Psychotherapies, now in its 11th edition. He lives in West Linn, Oregon, where he continues to write and lecture on the portrayal of mental illness in contemporary cinema.

About the Author
Foreword to the Fifth Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Films and Psychopathology
Chapter 2 Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Chapter 3 Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
Chapter4 Bipolar and Depressive Disorders
Chapter5 Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Chapter 6 Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
Chapter 7 Dissociative Disorders
Chapter 8 Sleep-Wake, Eating, and Somatic Symptom Disorders
Chapter 9 Gender Dysphoria and Sexual Dysfunctions
Chapter 10 Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders
Chapter 11 Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
Chapter 12 Neurocognitive Disorders
Chapter 13 Personality Disorders
Chapter 14 Paraphilic Disorders
Chapter 15 Violence and Physical and Sexual Abuse
Chapter 16 Treatment
Appendix A: The American Film Institute's Top 50 Heroes and Villains
Appendix B: Syllabus for a Sample Course in Abnormal Psychology
That Integrates Films
Appendix C: Recommended Websites
Appendix D: Twelve Misconceptions About Mental Illness and Mental
Health Professionals Perpetuated by Movies
Appendix E: Portrayals of Psychotherapists in Movies
Appendix F: Films Illustrating Psychopathology
References
Film Index