Abnormal Psychology

Anxiety & OCD:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/triggered/201303/girls-gets-ocd-0

OCD vs OCPD: Symptoms and Treatments 

The Portrayal of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders in Cinema and TV

Role Method with Patients with OCD: Development of a Method

Let it Go

 

Healing PTSD through the body/ Somatics:

Da 5 Bloods

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

My Grand Mother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

“Waking the Tiger” by Peter A. Levine

Grounding Techniques Self Soothing Emotional Regulation Book

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-science-willpower/201105/hugging-yourself-reduces-physical-pain

For Veterans: Feast of Crispian

“Children find fun, friends in free ‘puppet chats’” by Matthew J Palm 

 

Depression

The Fire Within 

Manchester By The Sea Review 

The Cinematic Traumas of Kenneth Longergan

How New Ketamine Drugs Help with Depression

The Soul-Expanding Value of Difficulty: Rilke on How Great Sadnesses Transform Us and Bring Us Closer to Ourselves

A TV drama shatters taboos around mental health in South Korea

Overcoming Depression and Desperation in the Time of COVID-19

 

Bipolar Disorder:

Review: ‘Touched With Fire,’ a Love Story Between Two Bipolar Poets

NINA SIMONE: BLACK ACTIVIST, BIPOLAR SAVANT

Excerpt from Modern Love

Using theatre to address mental illness stigma: a knowledge translation study in bipolar disorder

When is an Artist’s Mental Health Your Business?

 

Personality Disorders: 

Treatment for the ‘Untreatable’: Personality Disorders

Borderline Personality and Early Attachment

Lars and the Real Girl schizoid behavior

A Psychoanalytical Look at “Lars and the Real Girl”

Girl Interrupted 

An interview with a sociopath

 

Drama Therapy on Schizophrenia:

Art and Schizophrenia

Drama Therapy on the brain

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind Review

Hearing Voices

TEDx Talks: Schizophrenia and homelessness

Words on Bathroom Walls

 

Addiction:

A Star is Born addiction

How ‘A Star is Born’ Depicts Life with Addiction 

A New High documentary on addiction 

 

ADHD and Autism:

Failing at Normal: An ADHD Success Story | Jessica McCabe | TEDxBratislava

How to ADHD

Autism: The Sequel

The Art of Autism

 

Eating Disorders:

Art Therapy and Binging

Artist’s Sketches Convey Struggles of Eating Disorder

Performance Depicts Dancer’s Struggle With An Eating Disorder And Body Positivity

Something Pretty

An epidemic of beauty sickness

Eating disorders & athletes

Eating disorders: a mental illness, not a lifestyle choice | Viveca Lee | TEDxMcGill

Setting the stage for self-attunement: Drama therapy as a guide for neural integration in the treatment of eating disorders

 

Social Justice and mental health:

What It’s Like to Be ADHD and Black

Social Constructs and Mental Illness in Women

 

Films on mental health:

Gone Girl 

A Psychiatrist Weighs In On Amy & Nick in ‘Gone Girl’

Jacob the documentary

 

Art to treat mental illness

Nise: The Heart of Madness

History of Nise

Dr Nise da Silveira Psychiatrist

Humor Treatment in Atlanta

Music and Dementia: An Overview

Music Mends Minds Org.

Boosting Social Skills in Autistic Kids with Drama

 

Mathematics and Mental Illness