CINEMA FOTOGRAFIA E TELEVISIONE E PSICHIATRIA

Learning Objectives

• CINEMA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION

  The audiovisual media:
  -Theoretical and historical aspects.
  -Why they are relevant to psychology and psychotherapy.
  -Their mechanisms of action and how a person reacts to them.
  -How to use them in therapy.

• PSYCHIATRY

  knowledge of the psychopathological realities for of an useful psicoriabilitativ intervention. Through the description of modes of mental suffering students must be able to differentiate the individual clinical disease and find choices of finalized therapeutical interventions.

Detailed Course Content

• CINEMA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION

  What we mean by “rehabilitation”. Group therapy. Cinema and theatre as a “safe space”. Suspension of disbelief, identification and experience. The “dramatic arc” and the resolution of conflict. Classic structures and experimental ones. Cinema, theatre, photography and television in relation to psychotherapy. THEATRE: A timeline of theatre. Theatre and psychotherapy: main movements. Case studies. CINEMA: The structure and the visual grammar of films. Cinema and psychotherapy. “Blade Runner”: film analysis. PHOTOGRAPHY: Epistemological status and main issues. Photography and psychotherapy. The concept of "truth" in photography. Mimesis and diegesis, fiction and non-fiction. Hyperreality. TELEVISION AND NEW MEDIA: Television portraying reality: main issues. Television in the 50s-70s. Television in the 80s-90s. Contemporary television. The new media: main issues.

• PSYCHIATRY

  a) SCHIZOPHRENIA Epidemiology, Risk factors and Etiopathogenetic hypothesis, Simptomatology (initial period, state period, course and outcome), Clinical forms, Prognosis, Diagnosis and Differential diagnosis, Therapy. b)MOOD DISORDERS Epidemiology, Etiopatogenesis, Clinical pictures (Depressive episode, Manic episode, Hypomania, Mixed States), Course (Sigle-Pole, Bipolar, Distimia), Prognosis, Therapy. c) ANXIETY DISORDERS Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia; Social Phobia; Specific Phobias; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; Anxiety Disorder related to medical conditions, Anxiety Disorder related to substances abuse. Historical and Nosographic notes, Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis, Comorbility, Prognosis, Therapy.

Textbook Information

• CINEMA, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION

  D. D. Pappalardo, Spettacolo e cura - Teatro, cinema, fotografia, nuovi media audiovisivi e psicoterapia, Alpes Italia, Roma, 2018

• PSYCHIATRY

  Psicopatologia e Clinica Psichiatrica (a cura di) G.B. Cassano, E. Mundo, UTET ed., Torino, 2007.
  Manuale di Psichiatria (a cura di) Massimo Biondi, ELSEVIER ed., Milano, 2009