Psychiatric Symptoms in Video Clips
This is a movie used for the presentation of symptoms of Schizophrenia in some medical schools. I also use a lot of fragments from Hollywood movies to teach psychiatric symptoms and diseases to medical students. Since recent there’s Symptom Media. It’s a non-profit organization created in the spring of 2009 for the creation and distribution of specialized video content. The videos are all about psychiatric and psychological phenomena.
The clips were made by a film producer Matt Rubin and Dr. Donald Fidler, a psychiatrist and professor of West Virginia University. They already produced about 25 small segment films found streaming on their website.
The intention of these clips are to be used in the classroom setting as visual compliments to the written description of symptoms for psychological phenomena found in the DSM handbook. Some are exaggerated to convey the symptoms of a particular phenomena. In the future, we will also have series, short films and short documentaries to be unveiled. We are currently doing market research and wanted to poll you and your readers – educators and professionals – to see if there would be interest in purchasing a yearly subscription reminiscent of Netflix.
The clips are very good, and in English. Check them out and let us know what you think.
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December 1, 2009 @ 12:05 am
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December 8, 2009 @ 4:40 am
Thanks again Dr. Shock for finding me another great medical education resource. It has been bookmarked to Delicious now! I have used film clips for teaching about good and bad form in end of life discussions as well. May need to write up a post on that soon.
December 22, 2009 @ 9:53 am
Interesting that “A Beautiful Mind” is used as an educational tool in medical schools for teaching about schizophrenia. That movie was really a turning point in my life. I was first diagnosed with schizophrenia because I attempted suicide and was hospitalized. I was treated with antipsychotics, but stopped them after about a year. I lived psychotic for several years…clueless that my behavior and thoughts were odd to other people. I’m not sure why the movie affected me, but it made me aware that my thinking wasn’t right. I made an appointment with a psychiatrist and he gave me Zyprexa after the diagnostic interview. After a few weeks the voices were almost completely gone. It took some more Zyprexa and more time for some of the other stuff to go away…Zyprexa worked well.
I know that it’s hard to duplicate everything accurately in a movie, but I must admit, they did a pretty good job. It really depicts just how oblivious I can be to my own delusions/hallucinations. To other people they may seem so outrageous and silly, but to me they’re so real. And when I look back at them, they are just like any other memory with all the associated memories. Something else I found interesting is that it shows the temporal location of voices.
December 22, 2009 @ 10:21 am
Ok, I looked at the symptom clips. Those were interesting, too.
I didn’t know what intellectualization was, but as soon as I watched the clip I recognized that it’s something I do all the time, so I intellectualized by looking it up on the Internet. Haha.
Is “self-reference” the same as “ideas-of-reference?” When I think of “self-reference” I think of someone referring to him/her-self in the 3rd person. When I think of “ideas-of-reference” I think, for example, the headline “Bill Gates Sells Shares of Astra Zeneca!” means to me that I shouldn’t take my Seroquel anymore.