Schizophrenia Drew Miczo Film Studies Thesis The lack

Schizophrenia Drew Miczo Film Studies

Thesis The lack of awareness with Schizophrenia has caused it to be misrepresented in film, but as time goes on more accurate depictions have been created.

Why do people have Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness developing often in someone’s teens or early twenties. Although you have to be hereditarily pre-disposed, it is often rare that it will develop at all unless provoked by extreme mental trauma often associated with abuse, poverty, or drugs or alcohol use.

What does it do? There are many different kinds of Schizophrenia. It is often seen as a combination of auditory hallucinations, sometimes visual hallucinations, loss or changing of memory, disorientation, delusions, and paranoia.

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Films with Schizophrenia A Beautiful Mind (2001) Donnie Darko (2001) Secret Window (2004) The Soloist (2009) Shutter Island (2010)

Misrepresentations Paranoid Schizophrenia Murderers, horror films, Violence, ect Geniuses Young white males

Cites http: //ps. psychiatryonline. org/doi/full/10. 1176/app i. ps. 201100371 file: ///Users/user/Downloads/1040 PH 2 fa 15. pdf http: //www. medscape. com/viewarticle/770292 http: //whatculture. com/film/10 -fascinating-filmsabout-schizophrenia. php http: //www. medicaldaily. com/movies-dont-always -portray-schizophrenia-correctly-241342