I especially like #3 for Film Students; this is #1
Friday, October 25
Saturday, October 12
Sunday, October 6
Thursday, October 3
Movies with Abnormal Psych as topic - keep adding
Aviator
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American Psycho
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A Beautiful Mind <-- we will watch Nov 22
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Persona
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Barfly (addiction)
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Prozac Nation
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The Birds
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Psycho
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Black Swan
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Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood)
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Pollack
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Carrie
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A Clockwork Orange
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One Flew Over the CooCoo's Nest
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Donnie Darko
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David and Lisa
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Diary of a Mad Housewife
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Seven
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Fatal Attraction
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Silence of the Lambs
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Frances (borderline)
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Shutter Island
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Girl Interrupted
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Flash from the Past
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Fight Club
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Repulsion
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King of Comedy
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Requim for a Dream (addiction)
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The Joker
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Ray (addiction)
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Fatal attraction
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Taxi Driver
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Mommy Dearest
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The Three Faces of Eve
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Marne (Hitchcock - kleptomaniac)
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Trainspotting (addiction)
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Misery
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Tender Mercies (addiction)
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Man w the Golden Arm
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Shutter Island
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Natural Born Killers
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Single White Female
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The Night Porter
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Notes on a Scandal <-- excellent
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A Woman Under the Influence
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
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for YOUR presentations
diseases we are NOT covering:
also shopaholic, hoarders, internet obsession, sexual predator, kleptomania, gambling . . .
SEE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5 for more detail and options
also shopaholic, hoarders, internet obsession, sexual predator, kleptomania, gambling . . .
SEE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5 for more detail and options
the epidemic of mental illness
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/?pagination=false
- increase in # treated for MI: 2.5x betw '87 and /07 (from 1 in 184 to 1 in 75)
- MI now leading cause of disability in children
- 46% w at least 1 MI w/in 4 categories (1 anxiety,2 mood disorders, 3 impulse control disorders, 4 substance use disorders)
- shift from talk therapy to drugs as dominant mode
- 3 books which criticize the trend: angry, sad books
disturbing extent of selling drugs
doubt MI is caused by a chem imbalance - brain has billions of nerve cells (neurons). Multiple filament (axon and dentrites) to signal
signal across synapse. to signal, release a neurotransmitter. - drugs affect neurotransmitter levels
- much more on whether drugs actually relate back to the source of the problem or actually create an imbalance in the brain (!)
- placebos were 82% as effective as drugs
- getting off the drugs can be tricky
The Illusions of Psychiatry: August 18, 2011
in response to "The Illusions of Psychiatry" from July 14
- John Oldham, President APA says no
- Daniel Carlat, MD Psychatry: the drugs work
- Richard Friedman, MD Psychiatry: ok we don't know sources, but the drugs work
- Marcia Angell replies: all 3 just assume the drugs are helpful
the psychiatry profession and pharmaceutical have strong interest in convincing us the drugs work
Shrinks make 2X as much money prescribing drugs as providing talk therapy
the point is to be careful until it is clear that the benefits outweigh the harms.
DSM
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jul/14/illusions-of-psychiatry/?pagination=false
- paragraph 1-5 in my article in the last issue - through - psychiatry became the darling of the pharmaceutical industry, which soon made its gratitude tangible. Mauricio and Brandon Meds - doctors Eisenberg and ADD got out of Freudian view. drugs into'd in the 50s and by the 80s the focus was set .... yippie for science .... Melvin Sebastian <-- the culprit
- paragraph 5-9 In the late 1970s, the psychiatric profession struck back—hard. -through-
The DSM-IV sold over a million copies. Raymond: re-medicalized psychiatry. embraced the biological model .... upped shrinks among the many who "talk" .... DSM iii radically diff from DSM ii 1980 265 diagnoses. The "go to" book. brings consistency. funny part: was to be more reliable, but none are really backed up by scientific studies. - paragraph 9-13 Not only did the DSM become the bible of psychiatry - through -
the second block quote in paragraph 13 which ends with "provided a moral authority" Aysia no basis for it as psychiatry started grwoing, DSM got bigger in # and in popularity. drug intensive. drug co's w "hand in everything." Key opinion leaders. - paragraph 13- 15 In addition to the money spent on the psychiatric profession - through -
As they multiply with each edition of the DSM, what are we to make of them Kyle $$$$ Eli LIlly 550,000 etc .... Shrinks who use drugs = 180/hour vs. one for talk therefore they make more money drugs vary but not much. - paragraph 15 -18 As for the medications themselves - through -
It looks as though it will be harder and harder to be normal. Zack and steven .... handful of umbrella categories, subjective bsis ffor choosing one cat over another. create as many cats as possible to ID as many diseases as possible .... bonanza . - paragraph 18 - 22 Even Allen Frances, chair of the DSM-IV task force, is highly critical - through - states will save money by shifting welfare costs to the federal government.- Jesus and Gyzelle expanding the DSM ... more $$ for bigpharma. push for expansion was cronyism .... juv bi polar multiplied 40x between 1992 - 2004. Autism went from 1 in 500 to 1 in 90.
- paragraph 22 - 26 One would be hard pressed - through -
just as companies are prohibited from marketing them off-label. many shrinks RX non-labelled drugs .... . - paragraph 27 - 29 : Tabor
two books are pwrful indictments of psychiatric practice
"frenzy" of diagnosis
overuse of drugs - sometimes devastating side effects
many conflicts of interest
maybe the "price" to relieve suffering is loss of brain tissue (!)
especially need to rethink the way we treat children
time honored medical dictum: "Do no harm."
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