Final Psychology Project:
Choose one of the below Psychology Projects and complete by May31st 2013
All written work must be typed. You may still choose one of the original projects in the earlier handout if you wish.
These are some additional choices.
Fractured Fairytales:
1.
Analyze a fairytale, storybook characters or popular cartoon and for each character, using your notes and
information on Psychological Disorders: Analyze each character and their behaviors and thoughts to determine
what possible Psychological or Personality Disorder they may have.
Psychology and the Cinema
2.
Watch a movie with a psychological them, (there are many but there is also a link on my website to
multiple movies with the type of disorder addressed in the film next to it.) After watching the movie, write an
analysis of the film including:
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Basic plot of movie, characters and setting, etc.
What the psychological issue is that any of the characters are dealing with and a description of that
psychological disorder (s).
Discuss whether or not you believe that the film did a good job of depicting someone with this particular
psychological or personality disorder and why.
Creative Writing and Psychology:
3.
Write a short story where the main character is struggling with a psychological or personality disorder.
You can also write a short story from the viewpoint of a character with a specific psychological or personality
disorder.
Art & Psychology
4.
Create a work of art that you feel illustrates a psychological or personality disorder
5.
Create a collage of various scenes and pictures you feel illustrates several psychological disorders
Psychology, Music& Poetry
6.
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Music: Play List (written down and/or PowerPoint ), of songs you feel are either written from the point of
view or would be targeted towards someone with a psychological, personality disorder or problem. Try
and categorize the songs with the disorders.
Poetry/Writing: Many famous poets and writers struggled with psychological disorders. Put together in a
little book, several poems/ examples from writing, and determine what emotional difficulty the
poet/writer was dealing with and/or what disorder they might’ve been struggling with when they wrote
it.