4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur)

NU2E09 -Madness in the Movies (5 ECTS)

Learning Outcomes

Following completion of this module the student should be able to:

• Discuss the influence of contemporary cinema on societal views of mental illness
  
• Use a range of tools to critique and analyse portrayal of mental illness in film
  
• Compare and contrast portrayal of mental illness in film with current trends and approaches to mental health
  
• Relate the analysis of mental health in film to their own personal development and professional practice
  
• Make proficient and informed contributions to the module- related blog

Module Learning Aims

This module aims to introduce students to the portrayal of mental illness in contemporary film and to
encourage them to develop a critical approach to reading film. Students are also encouraged to review
their own personal development and professional practice in light of their comprehension of mental
illness.

Recommended Reading List

• Anderson, M. (2003) One flew over the psychiatric unit: Mental illness and the media. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 10 (3), 297-306.
  
• Dale, J., Richards, F., Bradburn, J. Tadros, G. & Salma, R. (2014) Student filmmakers’ attitudes towards mental illness and its cinematic representation – An evaluation of a training intervention for film students. Journal of Mental Health 23 (1), 4-8.
  
• De Carlo, K. (2007) Ogres and angels in the madhouse: Mental health nursing identities in film. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 16(5), 338-348.
  
• Kalra, G. (2012) Talking about stigma towards mental health professionals with psychiatry trainees: A movie club approach. Asian Journal of Psychiatry 5 (3), 266-268.
  
• Kelly, B.D. (2006) Psychiatry in contemporary Irish cinema (2006) Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 23 (2), 74-79.
  
• Kondo, N. (2008) Mental illness in film. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 31(3), 250-252.
  
• Livingston, K. (2004) Viewing popular films about mental illness through a sociological lens. Teaching Sociology 32 (1), 119-128.
  
• McDonald, A. & Walter, G. (2009) Hollywood and ECT. International Review of Psychiatry 21 (3), 200-206.
  
• Robinson, D.J. (2009) Reel psychiatry. International Review of Psychiatry 21 (3), 245-260.
  
• Wedding, D., Boyd, M.A. & Niemiec R.M. (2009) Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand
  
• Psychopathology. 3rd Edition. Cambridge: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers.
  
• Young, S.D. (2012) Psychology at the Movies. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

* Additional readings will be given for each unit of learning.