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Teaching Psychiatry? Let Hollywood Help!

Suicide in the Cinema

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Commercial films on videotape may be helpful in teaching medical students and residents about psychiatry. Recommendations are made on the use of specific films to illustrate various aspects of suicide, including depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, adolescent pressures and suicide, suicide gesture vs. suicide attempt, and the spiritual and philosophical aspects of suicide. In the Appendix, the authors list several dozen films depicting suicide that might be used for teaching purposes.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, USA

    Steven E. Hyler M.D. (associate professor of clinical psychiatry and staff)

  2. Unit #112, WHCS, New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Steven E. Hyler M.D. (associate professor of clinical psychiatry and staff)

  3. Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA

    Jaime Moore M.D.

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Hyler, S.E., Moore, J. Teaching Psychiatry? Let Hollywood Help!. Acad Psychiatry 20, 212–219 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03341883

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