An Interdisciplinary
Approach to the Teaching of
Abnormal Psychology:
Rationale, Advantages, and Challenges
James Hansell, Ph.D. University of Michigan
Third International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, Saint
Petersburg, Russia, July 14, 2008
Abstract

In this presentation, I report on my experiences teaching
Abnormal Psychology at the University of Michigan utilizing an
interdisciplinary method in which links between the course
material and the arts, popular culture, and current events are
emphasized. My aim is to enhance student interest in this
course and in psychology as a discipline -- to make the course
matter to students beyond their interest in a good grade. For
each topic presented in lecture and in readings, the scientific
literature is presented in the context of political, sociological, and
artistic issues or examples of the relevant mental disorders, their
causes, and their treatments. Students report that this method of
teaching increases the relevance of their Abnormal Psychology
course, provides useful connections to other courses in their
curriculum, and increases their interest in the field of
psychology.
Suggested Topics (Lecture or
Discussion format)
 “Song of the Week” (familiar and unfamiliar)
 Topic X: Why It Matters (relevance items)
 Disorder X “In the News” (recent news stories)
 Disorder X “In the Arts” (students love this!)
 Disorder X: “Current Controversies”
Chapter 2
Defining Abnormality: What is
Psychopathology?
Song of the Week: Green Day’s Basket Case
Do you have the time
To listen to me whine
About nothing and everything
all at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone
no doubt about it
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid
Or am I just stoned
I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams
She says it's lack of sex
That's bringing me down
I went to a whore
He said my life's a bore
So quit my whining cause
It's bringing her down
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid
Or am I just stoned
Grasping to control
So I better hold on
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid
Or am I just stoned
Defining Abnormality –
Why it Matters
 Politics and power
 Medical treatment
 Social issues
 Philosophical and scientific questions
Defining Abnormality In the News (politics and power)
 Russia: Activist Sent To Psychiatric Unit After Exposing Health
Facilities By Chloe Arnold

MOSCOW, August 2, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- An
opposition activist has been locked in
a mental-health institution in Murmansk Oblast for criticizing health
professionals, her husband and human-rights groups claim.
Dmitry Tereshin has hardly slept since July 5, the day his wife, Larisa
Arap, telephoned him from the local hospital in Murmansk to say
doctors were forcibly admitting her to a psychiatric unit. She had gone
to the hospital for a routine check-up she needed to renew her driver's
license.
"In my opinion, it may have been because of the article, because the
doctor had read the article Larissa wrote," Tereshin told RFE/RL. "The
article was entitled 'Madhouse,' and it revealed what goes on in
psychiatric clinics.“
And More News….
(Medical treatment)
 Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the
Young
The New York Times September 4, 2007 by Benedict Carey
The number of American children and
adolescents treated for bipolar disorder
increased 40-fold from 1994 to 2003,
researchers report today in the most
comprehensive study of the
controversial diagnosis.
Defining abnormality –
Issues and controversies (social and
philosophical questions)
 Thomas Szasz:
"Inasmuch as we have words to describe
medicine as a healing art, but have none to describe it as a
method of social control or political rule, we must first give it a
name. I propose that we call it pharmacracy, from the Greek
roots pharmakon, for ‘medicine' or ‘drug,' and kratein, for ‘to rule'
or ‘to control.' ... As theocracy is rule by God or priests, and
democracy is rule by the people or the majority, so
pharmacracy is rule by medicine or physicians."
--Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and
Pushers, by Thomas Szasz, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), p.
139.)
 Stigma (video)
Chapter 3: Explaining and
Treating Abnormality
What Causes Psychopathology?
Dance of the Week
http://youtube.com/watch?v=grpcBsgORTM
Explaining and Treating Abnormality:
Issues and controversies
 The Economics of Szasz: Preferences,
Constraints and Mental Illness
Bryan Caplan, Rationality and Society, Vol. 18, No. 3, 333-366 (2006)
 Even confirmed economic imperialists typically acknowledge
that economic theory does not apply to the seriously mentally ill.
Building on psychiatrist Thomas Szasz’s philosophy of mind,
this article argues that most mental illnesses are best modeled
as extreme preferences, not constraining diseases. This
perspective sheds light not only on relatively easy cases like
personality disorders, but also on the more extreme cases of
delusions and hallucinations. Contrary to Szasz’s critics,
empirical advances in brain science and behavioral genetics are
largely orthogonal to his position. While involuntary psychiatric
treatment might still be rationalized as a way to correct intrafamily externalities, it is misleading to think about it as a benefit
for the patient.
Chapter 4: Classifying
Abnormality
Diagnosis and Assessment
Song (and video) of the Week – Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
I remember when
I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that phase
Even your emotions had an echo
And so much space
Hmm mmmm
And when you're out there
Without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much
Does that make me crazy (x3)
Probably
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w
and I hope that you are having the time of your life
But think twice
Thats my only advice
Come on now
Who do you, who do you, who do you, who do you think you are
Ha ha ha!
Bless your soul
You really think you're in control
Well I think you're crazy (x3)
Just like me
My heros had the heart, to put their lives out on the limb
And all I remember, is thinking I want to be like them
Hmm mmm
Ever since I was little
Ever since I was little it looked like fun
And its no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
But maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably
Diagnosis and Assessment
in the News
 Mind Over Manual
By SALLY SATEL
The New York Times September 13, 2007
 “Earlier this summer, the American
Psychiatric Association announced that a 27member panel will update its official
diagnostic handbook, the Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The
fifth edition, which is scheduled to come out in
2012, is likely to add new mental illnesses
and refine some existing ones.”
Dr. Satel, continued
 “In a radical break from earlier editions….the D.S.M.
III categorized illnesses based on symptoms. A
patient was said to have a condition if he or she had
a certain number of the classic symptoms for a
certain period of time. This approach promoted “interrater reliability” — the odds that two examiners would
agree on what diagnosis to assign a patient.”
 “Yet the manual remained silent on what caused the
symptoms. The diagnosis of, say, schizophrenia did
not reflect a known cause in the way syphilis is
known to be an infection with a spirochete bacterium.
The writers of the D.S.M. III were confident that
science would one day fill this vacuum, yet three
decades later psychiatry still lacks a firm grasp of the
causal underpinnings of mental illness.”
Chapter 5
Anxiety and the Anxiety
Disorders
Song of the Week: Stage Fright by The Band – Lyrics by J.R.
(Robbie) Robertson

Now deep in the heart of a lonely kid
Who suffered so much for what he did,
They gave this ploughboy his fortune and fame,
Since that day he ain't been the same.
See the man with the stage fright
Just standin' up there to give it all his might.
And he got caught in the spotlight,
But when we get to the end
He wants to start all over again.
I've got fire water right on my breath
And the doctor warned me I might catch a death.
Said, "You can make it in your disguise,
Just never show the fear that's in your eyes."
See the man with the stage fright,
Just standin' up there to give it all his might.
He got caught in the spotlight,
But when we get to the end
He wants to start all over again.
Now if he says that he's afraid,
Take him at his word.
And for the price that the poor boy has paid,
He gets to sing just like a bird, oh, ooh ooh ooh.
Your brow is sweatin' and your mouth gets dry,
Fancy people go driftin' by.
The moment of truth is right at hand,
Just one more nightmare you can stand.
See the man with the stage fright
Just standin' up there to give it all his might.
And he got caught in the spotlight,
But when we get to the end
He wants to start all over again
You wanna try it once again
Please don't make him stop
Let him take it from the top,
Let him start all over again.
Anxiety, in Life and Art
 The Age of Anxiety?
 Literature and film
Anxiety disorders: News and
Controversies
 Shy on Drugs
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By CHRISTOPHER LANE The New York Times, September 21, 2007
It may seem baffling, even bizarre, that ordinary shyness could assume the
dimension of a mental disease. But if a youngster is reserved, the odds are high
that a psychiatrist will diagnose social anxiety disorder and recommend
treatment…..
Self-help books and magazine articles further widened the definition of social
anxiety disorder to include symptoms like test anxiety, aversion to writing on the
blackboard and shunning of team sports. These ridiculously loose criteria led to
more diagnoses, until social anxiety disorder in children began to look as if it
were spreading like the common cold among second graders…..
Then, having alerted the masses to their worrisome avoidance of public
restrooms, the psychiatrists needed a remedy. Right on cue, GlaxoSmithKline,
the maker of Paxil, declared in the late 1990s that its antidepressant could also
treat social anxiety and, presumably, self-consciousness in restaurants. Nudged
along by a public-awareness campaign (“Imagine Being Allergic to People”) that
cost the drug maker more than $92 million in one year alone ($3 million more
than Pfizer spent that year promoting Viagra), social anxiety quickly became the
third most diagnosed mental illness in the nation, behind only depression and
alcoholism.
Chapter 6
Mood and the Mood Disorders
(formerly Affective disorders)
Song of the Week:
Depression by Jimi Hendrix
 Manic depression is touching my soul
I know what I want but I just dont know
How to, go about gettin it
Feeling sweet feeling,
Drops from my fingers, fingers
Manic depression is catchin my soul
Woman so weary, the sweet cause in vain
You make love, you break love
Its all the same
When its, when its over, mama
Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress
Manic depression is a frustrating mess
Well, I think Ill go turn myself off,
And go on down
All the way down
Really aint no use in me hanging around
In your kinda scene
Music, sweet music
I wish I could caress, caress, caress
Manic depression is a frustrating mess
Manic
Mood Disorders in the News
 Antidepressants Now No. 1 Drug Prescribed For
Women 18-44
 Studies
NBC 4.com, DC - Nov 15, 2007
are showing that for
every 100 American women, 37
have been prescribed an
antidepressant, which is now the
No. 1 drug prescribed to women
ages 18 to 44
Mood Disorders in Art and Life

“If they had Prozac in the 19th century…..”
Marx
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
Nietzsche
Poe
Chapter 7
Dissociation and the
Dissociative Disorders
Song of the Week: Once In a Lifetime by The
Talking Heads

And you
And you
And you
And you
And you
may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
may find yourself in another part of the world
may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful Wife
may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
And you
And you
And you
And you
may ask yourself
may ask yourself
may tell yourself
may tell yourself
How do I work this?
Where is that large automobile?
This is not my beautiful house!
This is not my beautiful wife!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down….
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Water dissolving...and water removing
There is water at the bottom of the ocean
Carry the water at the bottom of the ocean
Remove the water at the bottom of the ocean!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down….
And you
And you
And you
And you
may ask yourself
may ask yourself
may ask yourself
may tell yourself
What is that beautiful house?
Where does that highway go?
Am I right? ...am I wrong?
My god!...what have I done?
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down…..
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Dissociation in the News
 I'm Not Really Running, I'm Not Really Running...
By Gina Kolata The New York Times December 6, 2007
 “…Without realizing what I was doing, I dissociated a few months ago,
in the middle of a long, fast bike ride. I’d become so tired that I could
not hold the pace going up hills. Then I hit upon a method — I focused
only on the seat of the rider in front of me and did not look at the hill or
what was to come. And I concentrated on my cadence, counting pedal
strokes, thinking of nothing else. It worked. Now I know why.
 Dr. Morgan, who has worked with hundreds of subelite marathon
runners, said every one had a dissociation strategy. One wrote letters
in his mind to everyone he knew. Another stared at his shadow. But, Dr.
Morgan asked him, what if the sun is in front of you? Then, the man
said, he focused on someone else’s shadow. But what if the sun goes
behind a cloud, Dr. Morgan asked? “Then it’s tough,” the runner
conceded.
 Dissociation clearly works, Dr. Morgan said, but athletes who use it also
take a chance on serious injury if they trick themselves into ignoring
excruciating pain. There is, of course, a fine line between too much
pain and too little for maximum performance.”
Dissociation in Life and Art
 Rene Magritte “The Lovers” (1928)
 The “zone”
 Matt Dillon in Gus Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy
 All illustrate the Importance of context
Dissociation in Life and Art
 In this paper we examine how aspects of dissociation permeate the
film-going experience. Specifically: (1) that the act of watching a film
may viewed as a voluntary engagement in a positive dissociative
experience; (2) that film directors and cinematographers use cinematic
devices to convey and dramatize the peri- and post-traumatic
dissociative experiences of their characters, and the force of these
techniques may issue from the film-viewer's personal knowledge of
normative dissociation; and (3) that representations of dissociative
conditions and symptoms in film allow filmmakers to examine universal
existential experiences and themes along with contemporary
psychosocio-cultural issues, while exploiting the plot-expanding
possibilities that inhere in the topics of memory, identity, and multiplicity.
We propose that this innate or intuitive understanding may reflect the
pervasive nonpathological presence, integration, and use of
dissociative processes in everyday life.
 BUTLER & PALESH (2004). Spellbound: Dissociation in the Movies
Journal of trauma and dissociation. Vol. 5, no 2 pp. 61-87
Chapter 8
Eating, Weight, and the
Eating Disorders
Song of the Week
 Silverchair - Ana's Song (Open Fire)
Please die Ana
For as long as you're here we're not
You make the sound of laughter
and sharpened nails seem softer
And I need you now somehow
And I need you now somehow
Open fire on the needs designed
On my knees for you
Open fire on my knees desires
What I need from you
Imagine pageant
In my head the flesh seems thicker
Sandpaper tears corrode the filth
And I need you now somehow
And I need you now somehow
Open fire on the needs designed
On my knees for you
Open fire on my knees desires
What I need from you
And you're my obsession
I love you to the bones
And Ana wrecks your life
Like an Anorexia life
Open fire on the needs designed
On my knees for you
Open fire on my knees desires
What I need from you
Open fire on the needs designed
Open fire on my knees desires
On my knees for you
Eating Disorders in Life and Art
Eating Disorders in the News: Surfing for Thinness: A Pilot Study of Pro–
Eating Disorder Web Site Usage in Adolescents With Eating Disorders

OBJECTIVE. This pilot study investigated the awareness and usage of pro–eating disorder
Web sites among adolescents with eating disorders and their parents and explored
associations with health and quality of life.
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PATIENTS AND METHODS. This was a cross-sectional study of 698 families of patients
(aged 10–22 years) diagnosed with an eating disorder at Stanford between 1997 and 2004.
Survey content included questions about disease severity, health outcomes, Web site
usage, and parental knowledge of eating disorder Web site usage.
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RESULTS. Surveys were returned by 182 individuals: 76 patients and 106 parents. Parents
frequently (52.8%) were aware of pro–eating disorder sites, but an equal number did not
know whether their child visited these sites, and only 27.6% had discussed them with their
child. Most (62.5%) parents, however, did not know about pro-recovery sites. Forty-one
percent of patients visited pro-recovery sites, 35.5% visited pro–eating disorder sites, 25.0%
visited both, and 48.7% visited neither. While visiting pro–eating disorder sites, 96.0%
reported learning new weight loss or purging techniques. However, 46.4% of pro-recovery
site visitors also learned new techniques. Pro–eating disorder site users did not differ from
nonusers in health outcomes but reported spending less time on school or schoolwork and
had a longer duration of illness. Users of both pro–eating disorder and pro-recovery sites
were hospitalized more than users of neither site.
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Jenny L. Wilson, BAa, Rebecka Peebles, MDa, Kristina K. Hardy, PhDb and Iris F. Litt,
MDa,c PEDIATRICS Vol. 118 No. 6 December 2006, pp. e1635-e1643
Chapter 9
Drug Use and the Substance
Related Disorders
Song of the Week

Paper Thin by John Hiatt
I was gonna get up off that bar stool
Just as soon as I could figure it out
Why I was overlooked at the car pool
Stood up at the dance with no twist and shout
When you're burnin' with your last desire
And every memory haunts you
You write it down in alcohol fire
'Cause that's the only flame that wants you
CHORUS:
When you're paper thin
Yeah, read all about it
When you were out of luck, well, luck was doin' alright
Now you're paper thin
Yeah, they can see right through ya
You just cut you're little finger on the edge of the night
Now do I really have to be responsible
For what I did between those tavern walls
I was just mixing up some chemicals
You could've heard a pin drop, could have heard time crawl
And every once in a while
You could hear you're own heart pound
Maybe some paper doll with a pasted on smile
Would let you write her number down
Substance Related Disorders in the
News
 Surge Seen in Number of Homeless Veterans
New York Times, United States - Nov 8, 2007
 Denver Voters Set ‘Lowest Priority’ for Cops: Pot
New York Times, United States - Nov 7, 2007
 Binge Drinking (video)
Drug Use in Art and Life
 Raymond Carver’s
“Where I’m Calling
From” (coursepack)
Chapter 10
Sex, Gender, and the
Sexual Disorders
Song of the Week: When I Was A
Boy by Dar Williams

I won't forget when Peter Pan came to my house, took my hand
I said I was a boy; I'm glad he didn't check.
I learned to fly, I learned to fight
I lived a whole life in one night
We saved each other's lives out on the pirate's deck.
And I remember that night
When I'm leaving a late night with some friends
And I hear somebody tell me it's not safe,
someone should help me
I need to find a nice man to walk me home.
When I was a boy, I scared the pants off of my mom,
Climbed what I could climb upon
And I don't know how I survived,
I guess I knew the tricks that all boys knew.
And you can walk me home, but I was a boy, too.
I was a kid that you would like, just a small boy on her bike
Riding topless, yeah, I never cared who saw.
My neighbor come outside to say, "Get your shirt,"
I said "No way, it's the last time I'm not breaking any law."
And now I'm in this clothing store, and the signs say less is more
More that's tight means more to see, more for them, not more for me
That can't help me climb a tree in ten seconds flat
When I Was A Boy, continued
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When I was a boy, See that picture? That was me
Grass-stained shirt and dusty knees
And I know things have gotta change,
They got pills to sell, they've got implants to put in,
they've got implants to remove
But I am not forgetting...that I was a boy too
And like the woods where I would creep, it's a secret I can keep
Except when I'm tired, 'cept when I'm being caught off guard
And I've had a lonesome awful day, the conversation finds its way
To catching fire-flies out in the backyard.
And I so tell the man I'm with about the other life I lived
And I say now you're top gun, I have lost and you have won
And he says, "Oh no, no, can't you see
When I was a girl, my mom and I we always talked
And I picked flowers everywhere that I walked.
And I could always cry, now even when I'm alone I seldom do
And I have lost some kindness
But I was a girl too.
And you were just like me, and I was just like you
Sex and Gender Disorders
in the News

Brazil: Free Sex-Change Operations THE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 18, 2007
Brazil’s public health system will begin providing free gender-reassignment
operations in compliance with a court order, the Health Ministry said. A panel of
federal judges ruled that sexual reassignment surgery was covered under a
constitutional clause guaranteeing medical care as a basic right. Brazil’s public
health system offers free care to all Brazilians. The ministry said it would be up
to local officials to decide who qualified for the surgery and what priority it would
be given compared with other operations within the health system.

A 24-year-old New York City man remains jailed after he was found allegedly
having sex with a 92-year-old woman's corpse inside the morgue of the hospital
where he worked. Anthony Merino, who works as a lab technician at Holy Name
Hospital in Teaneck, N.J., was arrested Sunday after police responded to a call
from a security guard at the hospital. The guard reported witnessing the lab
technician sexually desecrating the woman's dead body, according to police.
ABC News By DAVID SCHOETZ Oct. 30, 2007
Sex and Gender Disorders in Art
and Life

 Alfred Kinsey
 Pedro Almodovar
Renee Richards
Chapter 11
Personality and the Personality
Disorders
Song of the Week – You’re So Vain by Carly Simon,
performed by Jann Arden

You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf it was apricot
You had one eye on the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner, and...
You're so vain, you probably think this song is about you
You're so vain, i'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? don't you?
You had me several years ago when i was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved and one of them was me
I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and...
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and...
Well i hear you went up to saratoga and your horse naturally won
Then you flew your lear jet up to nova scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well you're where you should be all the time
And when you're not you're with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and...
Personality Disorders –
Scientific Controversies and Core Concepts
 The construct validity of depressive personality disorder.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2003 Feb;112(1):49-60. McDermut, Zimmerman, & Chelminski .
 This study examined the construct validity of depressive personality
disorder (DPD: American Psychiatric Association, 1994). Adult
psychiatric outpatients (N = 900) underwent comprehensive Axis I and
II evaluations and provided data on 4,768 of their 1st-degree relatives.
Despite modest overlap, DPD was not redundant with any Axis I or II
disorder. Participants with DPD exhibited more Axis I and Axis II
comorbidity, and greater psychosocial dysfunction, than participants
without DPD. Relatives of participants with DPD had higher rates of
mood disorders, alcohol abuse, and antisocial personality. Results are
consistent with findings of several other similar investigations. The
authors argue that DPD is a valid construct and should be
conceptualized as a personality disorder as opposed to a mood
disorder.
Personality Disorders in the News
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Experts Shy From Instant Diagnoses of Gunman’s Mental Illness, but Hints Abound
By JOHN SCHWARTZ and BENEDICT CAREY The New York Times April 20, 2007
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The video testament that Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC during the intermission
in his killing spree offers a compelling peek into the troubles that shaped a
gunman, experts in forensic psychology say….
Dr. Michael Stone, an expert on personality disorders and killers, said in an
interview that he saw in the videos “a paranoid person with sadistic traits,
possibly psychotic.” These are people, he said, who might see conspiracies all
around, and who have so little empathy that they “can do the most heinous
things almost as if they were whittling wood….”
Mr. Cho’s taped rants, and his peers’ descriptions of him as a classmate,
suggest a blend of severe and specific personality problems, said Dr. Theodore
Millon, dean and scientific director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in
Personology and Psychopathology in Coral Gables, Fla., who has designed
testing questionnaires used in many colleges….
People with so-called avoidant personality disorder shun social situations
because of a paralyzing dread of disapproval or criticism. Those with paranoid
personality disorder nourish a deep distrust of others and see insults and
malicious meanings in almost every interaction. Both are stubborn patterns of
behavior that can begin in adolescence or earlier….”
Personality Disorders in Life and Art

Chapter 12
Psychosis and
Schizophrenia
Song of the Week –
Brain Damage by Pink Floyd

The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too
Ill see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me till Im sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There’s someone in my head but its not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes
Ill see you on the dark side of the moon
Schizophrenia in the News
 Fishy way to prevent schizophrenia ABC News online Thu Nov 29, 2007
 Melbourne researchers say a daily dose of fish oil could prevent
the onset of schizophrenia in high-risk youths. An international
psychiatry conference has been told of an Orygen Research
Centre study of 81 youths who'd previously suffered
hallucinations or delusions. Lead researcher Professor Paul
Amminger says 5% of those who were given omega-3 capsules
went on to develop schizophrenia compared to almost a third
who were given a placebo. "The key to efficacy of omega 3 is
the early intervention so it seems it works much better in early
stages when the disorder is not completely established." he
said. "It's a risk reduction of about 7 times and I think that's very
good news that a benign treatment is actually working as good
or even better than anti-psychotics."
Schizophrenia in Life and Art
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 John Nash
Chapter 14
Stress, Psychophysiological Disorders,
and Somatoform Disorders
Song of the Week – John Henry, arranged and
performed by Snakefarm
(excerpt)
John Henry said to his Captain,
"A man ain't nothin' but a man,
And before I'll let your steam drill beat me
down,
Die with the hammer in my hand,
Die with the hammer in my hand."
Parody of the Week:
Modern-Day John Henry Dies Trying To OutSpreadsheet Excel 11.0 February 27, 2006 | The Onion Issue 42•09
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BALTIMORE—Office laborers across the nation are
mourning the passing of Wallace Peters, 42, the
mythic three-column accountant at Chesapeake &
Ohio Consultants who pitted himself against
Microsoft's latest version of the popular spreadsheet
program Excel. Although Peters was able to balance
his sheet a full 10 seconds before the program did,
the man celebrated in song and story as the "cubicle
worker's John Henry" was pronounced dead of a
coronary thrombosis late Monday evening. The late
Wallace “Wally” Peters, whom colleagues are calling
a 21st-century John Henry
"He died with his pencil in his hand," shift supervisor
Thomas Kaptein said. "Wally Peters was an
accounting-driven man……"
Concluding Comments
 Adapting to small classes
 Possible pitfalls and solutions
 Questions?
 Thank you!
 Contact info: jhansell@umich.edu
734-665-0840