Frames of Minds

A History of Neuropsychiatry on Screen

Eelco F.M. Wijdicks (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761589-8 (ISBN)

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As a medium that aims to connect people through the communication and interpretation of experiences, cinema is uniquely positioned to showcase cultural misunderstandings around issues of mental health. Frames of Minds traces a history of psychiatry in film, concentrating on the major paradigm shifts in neuropsychiatry over the last century. Oftentimes, representations of psychiatry, mental illness, and psychotic breakdown are reduced to tropes and used by filmmakers as a tool for plot progression. Conversely, films can be used as an avenue to voice common concerns about the missteps of psychiatry, including overdiagnosis and mistreatment. Dr. Eelco Wijdicks provides fresh insights into the minds of filmmakers and how they creatively tackle this complex topic. How do filmmakers use psychiatry, and what do they want us to see? What is their frame of mind--psychoanalytically, biologically, sociologically, anthropologically? Were they influenced by their own prejudices about the origins of mental illness? How does this influence the direction of their films?

Examining the history of film alongside developments in neuropsychiatry, Frames of Minds uncovers a cinematic language of psychiatry. By taking chances to portray mental illness, filmmakers aim to achieve a sense of reality, and provide catharsis for viewers through the act of dramatization. Ultimately, the history of psychiatry in film is a history of the public perception of medicine, and the ways psychiatry is understood by directors, writers, actors, and audiences.

Eelco F.M. Wijdicks, MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology at the College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. In 1992, he established the Mayo Clinic Neurocritical Care Program. He was the founding editor of Neurocritical Care, the official journal of the Neurocritical Care Society and has been named Honorary Member of the Neurocritical Care Society. He originated the FOUR SCORE coma scale and has over 1000 research papers, practice guidelines, topic reviews, book chapters, and editorials to his credit, as well as having single-authored, co-authored, and edited 35 books on neurocritical care. Dr. Wijdicks is also an attending neurointensivist in the Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit at Saint Marys Hospital, Rochester, MN, and is a Professor of the History of Medicine. He is the recipient of the Dutch Winkler medal, the Karis Award, and the Distinguished Educator Award. Dr. Wijdicks has studied medical representation in cinema and written scholarly film reviews for medical journals and has published on the interface between psychiatry and neurology. This book is part of a series on medicine in film and includes Cinema, MD, Neurocinema, and Neurocinema: The Sequel.

Preface
Chapter 1: The Mind and Brain
Chapter 2: The Mind Readers
Chapter 3: The Imagining Brain
Chapter 4: The Dreaming Brain
Chapter 5: The Drugged Brain
Chapter 6: The Traumatized Mind and Brain
Chapter 7: The Shocked and Lesioned Brain
Chapter 8: The Violent Mind and Brain
Epilogue: The Directors Mindset
Acknowledgments
Filmography

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2024
Zusatzinfo	60 B&W Images
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 238 mm
Gewicht	780 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-761589-9 / 0197615899
ISBN-13	978-0-19-761589-8 / 9780197615898
Zustand	Neuware