Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 258 pages
- Published by: Hogrefe & Huber Publishing
- Edition: 2nd Edition May 30, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0889372926
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0889372924
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Book Dimensions:
10 x 7 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia. Utilizes films to explain and teach students about important disorders encountered in clinical practice. Comprised of 15 core clinical chapters, text includes a case history and scenes from specific, often well-known films. Also provides teaching tools such as suggestions for class discussion. Previous edition not cited. Softcover.
From the Author
John Milton, in Paradise Lost, tells us that we must 'strike the visual nerve, for we have much to see.' So, too, in this present work, do Wedding, Boyd, and Niemiec admonish us that there is much to learn by seeing with the minds eye what these well-chosen films, by turns sad and silly, offer us in illuminating the psychopathologies set forth in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. "Wedding, Boyd, and Niemiec provide a brief synopsis of the particular film in relation to the major category of psychopathology being covered in a chapter, and they relate the manifest and latent content of the film to the various diagnostic symptoms within a category, such as childhood disorders, and further provide an illustrative case study to assist in the process of generalizing from the film to actual diagnostic work. "The authors provide a lively expository style, and the use of epigraphs for each chapter is a particularly happy device for setting a tone for each chapter. "[This work] is likely to become a classic of its type and a particularly useful teaching tool for the diagnosis and understanding of the various psychopathologies for students of the helping professions. I commend it to the reader, be the reader student or professor.
Allan Barclay, PhD, St. Louis, Missouri
Reader Reviews
A really fine layman's guide to several prominent mental illnesses where specific films accurately portray manifestations of and reactions to those illnesses. It is now much more enjoyable to watch those films again with a better understanding of what the characters are attempting to portray. Highly recommended to any movie viewer who would like to know more about specific mental illnesses, but aren't able to attend psychiatric Grand Rounds as a physician.
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