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Using Film and Memoir to Teach
- 1. H. Russell Searight, Ph.D., MPH Lake Superior State University Presented at the 6th International Conference on Psychology Education August 2, 2014
- 2. Lake Superior State University Sault Sainte Marie Michigan
- 4. • Immediacy • Engaging • Experiential • Entertaining • Able to show situations that traditional educational films do not • Narratives are more likely to be remembered • Provoke Critical Thinking
- 5. Purpose: analyze film characters and situations in relation to topics in psychology Structure: Lecture Worksheet/Film Discussion Papers
- 6. • Need a “guide” to help students recognize the pedagogical content • What is not consistent with current knowledge in your field in film ? • How would the film’s portrayal impact the general public’s view of mental health conditions ? • If based on a true narrative, how does the film’s fictional account differ ? Why ? • What techniques does filmmaker use to tell the story ?
- 7. Film and memoir provoke critical thinking Films distort content Film Examples: A Beautiful Mind Rain Main Black Swan Memoir—Why did the author go public with their
- 11. Mr. Jones Grey Gardens Pieces of April What about Bob ?
- 12. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape ? Antwone Fisher Good Will Hunting
- 13. Films can be very vivid Good films evoke (strong) emotion from the audience Films about psychological distress are often distressing Prepare class Provide options to emotionally evocative films
- 14. Estimates of childhood sexual abuse among U.S. college women: 20% Film and literature can provoke re-experiencing trauma
- 15. About 600 published memoirs focusing on psychological conditions Abnormal Psychology Texts –Third person accounts People reduced to DSM-5 criteria Film—observe the condition What is it like to actually have this condition What is day-to-day experience of someone with OCD ?
- 17. Film : Mr. Jones Academic Information: DSM. Textbook Memoir: An Unquiet Mind
- 18. Very few realistic portrayals in film Very few books describing the experience of providing psychotherapy
- 20. In many recently-developed and developing countries, psychotherapy is not common American films are popular world-wide Wolff et al. (1996): United Kingdom: 32% indicated that media was primary source of mental health information What would someone conclude about psychotherapists and psychotherapy if their knowledge came from film ?
- 21. Psychotherapists are more disturbed than their patients
- 22. Being a psychotherapist is a great way to work out your own issues and you get paid for it
- 23. Being a psychotherapist is a great way to meet your next boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse Your patient/lover will save you and you will both live happily ever after
- 24. Psychotherapists conduct termination sessions with clients in public restrooms ?
- 25. Dual relationships—nonsexual Abandonment— Physical Assault Sexual relationships Trying to Kill a patient Client/ Patient Welfare: Who is the therapy for? The therapist or the patient ? Breaking Confidentiality Using Unorthodox (Not evidence-based) treatments ?
- 26. • “I think the movie review was effective and had a profound impact on how people view films.” • “The overall strength of the course was the movie choices; some were VERY depressing and some were much better. The movie choices showed aspects of some mentally ill patients that people would not have seen otherwise.”
- 27. Dr Wonderful Dr. Dippy Dr. Evil Dr. Eccentric Dr. Love (Orchchowski, et al., 2006)
- 28. Miracle Worker Wise and Sagely Always Available Cures Patients Quickly
- 29. Caricature of a psychoanalyst Often speaks with Viennese accent Portrayed as so doctrinaire that they are out of touch with their patients and their own lives
- 30. Sociopathic Uses psychological principles to achieve own ends Manipulative Sadistic
- 31. Odd More disturbed than the patient Private life often a mess
- 32. Has affairs with patients Affairs are curative Love can heal all wounds
- 33. Good way to apply learned information Entertaining for students Allows for students to actively learn material
- 34. Six Dimensions Separation Stereotypes Restricted Benevolence Pessimism Stigma
- 35. Dimension Pre Mean Pre SD Post Mean Post SD Significanc e Benevolenc e 30.00 3.46 29.50 4.86 t=.31 P=.77 Pessimism 12.57 2.85 13.93 1.77 t=-1.57 p=.14 Stigma 5.43 1.40 5.29 1.38 t=.27 p=.79 Separation 20.43 4.85 21.36 4.36 t=.58 p=.57 Stereotype 8.07 2.62 8.36 2.98 t=.27 p=.79 Restrictive 6.21 2.12 6.71 1.77 t=0.68 p=.50
Editor's Notes
- Russ---I have used clips from popular films for years—the first time I was exposed to it was in family therapy –where clips of feature films were used to teach ethnicity--.Sat Night Fever—Breaking Away, Ordianry People I used in medical education for a different reason—I regulry gave lectures to physicians in family practice and internal medicine—about psychoscial aspects of medicine—Family physicians they were reasonably interested—Every month for years I had to talk to transitional interms—people going into radiology or anestheiology and Internal med residents—I was supposed to be teaching psychiatry and psychosical aspects of medicine—many of whom could care less—but it was required for accreditation. So I decided that if what I taught wasn’t seen as remotely useful—at least I could be entertaining. psychology as a field is for a discipline tht is supposed to be focused on people we are terrbily inhumane—Someone quated academic psychologists with prisoners in a Platonic cave—never engaging with people directly but only as shadows on the wall—our shadows are the statiistics –the people have vanished—I think tht film brings human experience back to psychology
- Danielle
- Russ--I am sure I did this in my early years of teaching—I am teaching a developmental psych course—thiis week—we are covering infancy—to give the students and me break from lecturing—the uniiversity has a film on infants—let’s watch it
- Danielle
- Russ--Girl Interrupted—true story about Susanna Kaysen—writer –and her psychiatirc hsopitlizatin right after high school graduation--If you watch the film carefullly a the director has put forth lot of effort has been made to transport you Music, tv is carrying the war in Vietnam and Robt Kennedy’s assasination One view of this condtions, Bline personality—is tht it is more common during times of rapid social change—this was a particulalry difficult time historically to be a young woman—the adult women that she has known –mother, guidance counselor—don’t present a very attractive view of becoming one—director does
- I have seen bits and pieces of the film since I read the students’s paper and I will never look at the film in the same way againr—not some eccentric living in chocolate land but a flordily manic character
- RussAs a therapist—I am well aware about the capacity of some films to produce flashbacks, nightmares in person who thought they had recoverd
- Russ I debated wbout whether to use this one—very powerful film but in addition to the mother who is incredibly emotionally anphysically abuisive; Precious herslf has had one child by her father and becomes pregnat by him again and there is a scene in which he is sexualy assualting her
- Example—I was seeing an Afghani child who was having some behavioral issues in school
- Russ--One of the assignments was to do a film review—based on the style that is used in PSYCHCRITIQUES—one of the things that I pointed out to the non-psychology and non-English/humanities—Being able to write a review--