How Mental Illness is Depicted in Film

Classical 89 Thinking Aloud Interivew: http://www.classical89.org/thinkingaloud/past.asp?d=5/24/2007

Listen to a coversation with two BYU educators about the representations and misrepresentations of mental illness in the movies. We talk with both Jay Fox, an English professor who is a president elect with the National Alliance on Mental Illness in Utah (NAMI-Utah) and with Marleen Williams, who works as a clinical professor of Counseling Psychology at the BYU Counseling and Career Center. The interview includes an exploration of why we're all drawn to observe situations of mental illness in film, also a consideration of just how "clinically correct" movies makers ought to be.