Instructions
PAPER TOPIC: I am providing the students with two options
for their paper. First option is Analysis of Psychopathology in Popular Film,
and the second, is Analysis of Psychopathology in a piece of literary work. Both,
Literature and Popular media and films are a rich source of material addressing
psychopathology and mental illness. You will be asked to view a relevant film
or read a work of Literature. Then, I would like students to write a paper that
addresses a number of relevant themes including the following:
1.
A comprehensive description
of psychopathology (symptoms) or particular Psychopathological dynamics
(Oedipus complex, Existential Angst) depicted, including a formal DSM-IV/ICD
diagnosis of the protagonist or main character.This should
include specific and relevant symptoms and biographical information that
indicates how the person displays these dynamics or meets criteria for a
particular mental disorder.
2.
A reflection on the
positive and negative messages that the film or story portray regarding the
particular disorder or psychological dynamics.
3.
Discussion of how well or
poorly the movie or Literary work characterizes the particular form(s) of
psychopathology depicted.
4.
Identify a minimum of 3
SCENES either in the film or story that best the above points.
You will choose the movie
or literary work you want to write the paper on, please don’t flood my inbox
with questions regarding what movie or book to choose. For
film suggestions, please refer to the "Psychology and Films Links"
section below in the syllabus. For literary works, there are plenty of choices,
both classical and modern, and you may want to do a web-search for specifics. A
very short list of authors I do like are as follows: Sophocles, St Augustine,
Avicenna, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Goethe, some of the Russian novelists are
great (Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekov), Robert Louis Stevenson, American novelists
(Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, etc), many mystery novels from Agatha Christy or Arthur
Conan Doyle, and many others. You may also choose an autobiography in lieu of a
novel, but you need to check with me on that one.
The paper should be written using APA format ONLY, and it should be about 10 pages long NOT counting title page and bibliography (approx. 2500words). Consult your Librarian for guidance or information on APA style. I will also provide the students with a detailed “paper-matrix” that will further explain criteria for writing a good paper.
The paper should be written using APA format ONLY, and it should be about 10 pages long NOT counting title page and bibliography (approx. 2500words). Consult your Librarian for guidance or information on APA style. I will also provide the students with a detailed “paper-matrix” that will further explain criteria for writing a good paper.
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