People like ourselves : portrayals of mental illness in the movies / Jacqueline Noll Zimmerman.

  • Zimmerman, Jacqueline Noll, 1948-
Date:
[2003], ©2003
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Publication/Creation

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, [2003], ©2003.

Physical description

xvii, 166 pages ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-155) and index.

Contents

1. The price of conformity: the false self -- 2. The denial of reality -- 3. Hitchcock, chaos, and the devils of unreason -- 4. Women who can't forget -- 5. Divine madness: poets, prophets, and demons -- 6. War: a battle for the mind and spirit -- 7. Violence and mental illness: a good movie is hard to find.

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    History of Medicine
    CUF /ZIM
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  • 0810848767