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James Charney, "Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness through Film" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)

New Books in Psychology

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Ordinary People

Alfred Hitchcock's Night of the Hunter is a film that many people are not aware of, but it is one of the great films ever made. It stars Robert Mitchum as one of the scariest psychopaths you can imagine. I wanted to also look at issues of delusional thinking and then wound up looking for films that would fit it. And finally, depression was one that was addressed by ordinary people but there were other films as well that could broaden the discussion.

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