Podcasts by Mental Illness in Pop Culture
Further podcasts by Scott A. Wickman, PhD; Leanne Deister-Goodwin, MOL; Joseph Flynn, PhD
Podcast on the topic TV und Film
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Mental Health and Pop Culture in the Pandemic: Mental Illness in Pop Culture S4 E1 from 2020-05-30T17:43:10
Video version of this podcast episode at https://youtu.be/aBD0yaUyGms We kick off season 4 of Mental Illness in Pop Culture by adding video, reintroducing ourselves. and getting authentic about me...
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Ain't Saints Radio: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2018-10-16T00:30:36
Recovery and redemption: It’s who they are and what they do. The Ain’t Saints Radio crew join Mental Illness in Pop Culture’s team for a podcast about their podcast. Each Ain’t Saints Radio episo...
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Robin Williams' Come Inside My Mind: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2018-08-27T16:42:32
Vulnerability, generativity, and a search for intimacy emerge as pervasive themes as we process and make sense of comedian and actor Robin Williams’ life, based on the HBO documentary Come Inside M...
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Nebraska: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2018-08-12T01:45:13
In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we explore age-related cognitive impairment, alcoholism, rural midwestern culture, family dynamics, and the psychosocial development stage Ego Inte...
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Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2018-08-04T18:58:24
In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, Beach Boys superfan Mark McGowan joins us as we explore family dynamics, birth order, addiction, schizoaffective disorder, creative genius, Love an...
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Still Alice: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2018-07-31T08:25:16
In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we analyze the impact of early familial Alzheimer’s in Still Alice, with Julianne Moore in the Academy Award-winning title role. We focus not only ...
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Ingrid Goes West: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2018-07-27T23:23:38
In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, our analysis of Ingrid Goes West starring Aubrie Plaza leads to an exploration of obsession, social media, and “like” culture -- in the film . . . ...
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Wild: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2018-07-23T12:09:41
In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we explore revelation and restoration in Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, based on author Cheryl Strayed's 1,000-mile walkabout to overcome addict...
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Pearl Jam and Jeremy: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2018-07-15T12:42:42
In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, guest podcaster Andrew Plath joins us to explore mental health issues related to Pearl Jam and “Jeremy,” a song and video about a boy who finds voi...
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2017-12-15T17:51:02
In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we examine The Stanford Prison Experiment, in film and real life. A coin toss determined whether volunteers would be “guards” or “prisoners” in thi...
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Loony Toons: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2017-12-09T08:30:13
Pepe Le Pew, Bugs Bunny, and Wile E. Coyote are among the Loony Toons characters whose mental health issues and identities we dissect in the first episode of Season 3 of Mental Illness in Pop Cultu...
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Mental Illness in Pop Culture Season 3 Introduction from 2017-12-06T05:04:23
We preview season 3 of Mental Illness in Pop Culture and welcome Dr. Joe Flynn to the podcasting team!
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Moonlight: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2017-05-07T00:38:27
2016 Academy Award winning Moonlight intersects race, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, interpersonal violence, and emotional neglect, all swirling around together with the identit...
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Harold and Maude: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2017-04-29T01:34:25
The cult classic and dark romantic comedy Harold and Maude puts a humorous yet existential gender spin on the May-December motif, with 20-year-old Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) proposing his love to 79-...
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The Soloist: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2017-04-21T23:20:31
In this extra-long episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we examine The Soloist, featuring Jamie Foxx as the titled character, Nathaniel Ayers, Jr., a homeless musical prodigy with severe menta...
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Manchester by the Sea: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2017-04-15T20:51:20
In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we explore abandonment, complex grief, depression, pain, New England masculine identity, forgiveness, dysfunctional coping strategies, anhedonia, f...
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Amy: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2017-04-07T23:22
We examine a variety of mental health issues, seeming contradictions, and tragic beauty in Amy, the 2015 Academy-Award-winning documentary about vocalist, musician, and songwriter Amy Winehouse, wh...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2017-04-01T09:44:47
We explore themes of freedom/oppression, empowerment, and escape as well as rampant religious symbolism within this Academy-Award-sweeping film that still holds up 40+ years later. Randall Patrick ...
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Season 2 Introduction: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2017-04-01T07:34:43
In this introductory episode to our second season of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we introduce ourselves (including new team members Broc and Leanne), talk about our interest/experience with ment...
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Processing the Podcast: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-12-17T04:46:41
In this episode, Adam, Anna, Olivia, Toni, and Scott summarize what they've learned through the first season of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, going meta- on film and episode highlights, the collab...
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Inside Out: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-12-07T07:49:32
"Do you ever look at someone and wonder, 'What is going on inside their head?'" In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we take an "Inside Out" look at Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disg...
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Silver Linings Playbook: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-11-29T01:40:05
In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-11-21T22:36:21
In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on...
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Stevie: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-11-15T01:36:42
In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. This episode centers around ...
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A Beautiful Mind: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-11-08T01:56:42
In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we discuss ...
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-11-01T00:10:32
In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on...
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Girl Interrupted: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-10-24T23:14:06
Note: This episode contains quoting of main characters using profanity. In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media bo...
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Antwone Fisher: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-10-17T23:33:04
In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on...
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Ordinary People: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-10-11T00:27:09
In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on...
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Good Will Hunting: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-10-04T01:51:40
In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on...
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Introductory Episode: Mental Illness in Pop Culture from 2016-09-30T01:24:16
We focus on mental health issues and professional helping as portrayed in popular culture, with the belief that media both reflect and shape public perception of these topics. In this episode, we i...
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