Film Analysis
The main difference between diegetic and non-diegetic sound
What is diegetic sound originates from the world of the scene, and the non-diegetic is only audible to the audience
This physician performed as many as 4,000 lobotomies on individuals as young as 4 years old.
Who is Walter Freeman?
The term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was coined in this decade
This racial group experiences the greatest prevalence of serious mental health disorders within the US.
Who are those claiming 2 or more races?
A tool we can use to examine conceptual frameworks, to lessen the influence of preconceptions, and to experience “what is” by choice.
What is mindfulness?
A mise-en-scene, as defined by Sikov.
What is the expressive totality of what you see in a single film image, encompassing the set, props, costumes, lighting, actors, and their position
According to Aho, the anti-psychiatry vs psychiatry debate misses this key aspect in the discussion of depression.
What is the lived experience of depression itself?
The theory that schizophrenia results from an underactivation of glutamate receptors, which may account for reduced activity in frontal cortex
What is the Glutamate Hypothesis?
One reason Luhrmann identifies as to why individuals with schizophrenia may fare better in India
What is social support from family members?
What is social perception of the disorder?
Greater self-regulation, calm, focused states of attention, altered gene expression, greater grey matter volume.
What are the benefits of practicing mindfulness?
In Fearless, Max finds this aspect of the crash the most difficult to talk about
The death of his colleague, Jeff
A controversial technology that promises the ability to avoid serious mental illnesses before birth
What is gene-editing?
Changes in thoughts and feelings that are “added on” to a person's experiences (e.g., paranoia or hearing voices).
What are positive symptoms?
One difference Emmons between the NIMH general pamphlet on depression and the pamphlet on depression in women
What is an informal, false personal (possibly even condescending) tone?
What is emphasis on depression as an 'unhealthy excess' as opposed to a state or disorder?
An overwhelming disinterest in the world as a whole in which nothing stands out as significant and meaningful.
What is profound boredom?
Cronenberg tells the story of Spider through these three different ‘temporal planes’
What are Spider’s childhood, his time in the asylum, and his time in the boarding house
An international network of support groups for individuals who experience what are commonly referred to as auditory hallucinations
What is the Hearing Voices Movement
Persistent involuntary movements, weight gain, fatigue, decreased motivation, and cognitive impairment.
What is are side effects of antipsychotic medications?
The belief that, unlike in men, depression represents not a stark departure from the norm, but rather as an outgrowth of women's complex emotional lives reflects this cultural commonplace.
What is that women are emotional by nature?
According to Heidegger, ______ are always working to orient us in the world towards things that matter and provide a background sense of what counts for us in specific situations.
What are moods?
In A Beautiful Mind, one element of the mise-en-scene Howard uses to indicate that Alicia discovers Nash is no longer taking his medications.
High angle, long shot of Alicia running in the run, fast pace of editing, Alicia’s expression in the bathroom/shed
Who is John Nash?
The lack of correspondence between the speed with which drugs block dopamine receptors and how long it takes for symptoms to diminish is taken as evidence against this theory of schizophrenia.
What is the Dopamine Hypothesis?
Racism, isolation, and experiences of hostility within an unfamiliar environment are risk factors for the development of this condition within African-Carribean migrants living in London.
What is schizophrenia?
The view that even when confronting tremendous psychic pain the individual can always reflect on his or her situation, choose to interpret it in a particular way, and take some kind of action is an example of this kind of philosophical orientation.
What is existentialist?