Mental Health at the Movies - Character as Case, University of Texas, Austin (Dell)

Mental Health at the Movies - Character as Case will offer a deep exploration of psychiatric conditions and treatment with an emphasis on psychotherapeutic skill. There will be three forms of engagement per day for an eight hour period. View 10 films that cover 10 different psychiatric conditions and psychotherapeutic techniques (4 hours/day), discuss conditions, treatments, social determinants and "what matters to the patient" as presented in the films with instructor (2 hours/day), read assigned articles and with a partner, create and perform a script of a dialogue of a psychotherapy session between patient and psychiatrist (2 hours of self-directed learning/day). This information has been collected for the Post-Discipline Online Syllabus Database. The database explores the use of literature by schools of professional education in North America. It forms part of a larger project titled Post-Discipline: Literature, Professionalism, and the Crisis of the Humanities, led by Dr Merve Emre with the assistance of Dr Hayley G. Toth. You can find more information about the project at https://postdiscipline.english.ox.ac.uk/. Data was collected and accurate in 2021/22.