Live from the home office from the psychology department at McKendree University:

Tami Eggleston's psychology picks:

Best Books:

As Nature Made Him:  The Boy Who Was Raised As a Girl
    --John Colapinto

The Man who mistook his wife for a Hat
    --Oliver Sacks

Simple Abundance
    --Sarah Ban Breathnach

Angela's Ashes
 --Frank McCourt

Reviving Ophelia
  --Mary Pipher

The Prince
  --Niccolo Machiavelli

 

Any book by Maya Angelou

(plus, everyone should have the APA Handbook and a good dictionary)

Best Videos:

Awakenings

Lorenzo's Oil

Rain Man

As good as it gets

Good Will Hunting

One Flew Over the Cuckoos' Nest

Sybil

Shine (not the Shining, although that is good too!)

Three Faces of Eve

A Beautiful Mind (Very interesting, but I do not encourage any schizophrenics to stop taking their medicine!)

Interesting Videos (but not in my top 10 list!)

Fight Club

Primal Fear (what is it with Edward Norton playing psychologically disturbed characters?)

What about Bob? (OK, not really interesting, but funny!)

Best Games

Cranium

Ink Spots (a take off of the real ink-blots)

Bop-It!

Do you have ideas for good psychology books, videos, or games?  Well email them to me at tegglest@mckendree.edu!

 

MORE VIDEO/BOOK/WEBSITE INFORMATION FROM OTHER PSYCHOLOGISTS!

Abnormal Psychology 
3 Faces of Eve (Dissociative Identity Disorder) 
A Beautiful Mind (Schizophrenia)
A Brilliant Madness (documentary on John Nash & it provides much more 
                       detail than the Hollywood movie-schizophrenia)
As Good as it gets (abnormal psych)
The Cain Mutiny (Personality Disorder) 
Clean and Sober (Substance Abuse)          
Days of Wine and Roses (Substance Abuse) 
Fatal Attraction (Borderline Personality Disorder) 
Fear Strikes Out (Mental illness in general)
I am Sam (Mental illness in general)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Hospitalization, treatment, 
                               definitions of abnormal behavior).
NUTS (Legal Issues/Definitions of Abnormal Behavior) 
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Definitions of Abnormal Behavior) 
Ordinary People (Definitions of Abnormal Behavior, stigma, perceptions 
                       of therapy, family issues) 
Primal Fear (Dissociative Identity Disorder) 
Rainman (Autism) 
When a Man Loves a Woman (Substance Abuse) 
What's eating Gilbert Grape? (Autism) 
Adolescent Psychology
The Breakfast Club (peer group relationships)
Rebel without a Cause (examples of moral reasoning)
Stand by Me (examples of cognitive reasoning)
 
 
Developmental, adult development, aging, death and dying
About Schmidt
Fried Green Tomatoes
My Life
On Golden Pond
Trip to Bountiful
 
 
Learning
Clockwork Orange
 
 
Personality Theories    
Citizen Kane (Erikson's Theory of Psychosocial Development)
 
 
 
Principles of ethnology such as imprinting
Fly Away Home 
 
 
Research Methods
The Haunting (horror movie, but the entire plot of the film is that 
               Neeson is a psychologist conducting a study on fear.)
 
 
Social Psychology 
12 Angry Men (groupthink, stereotyping/prejudice, etc.)
Frances (psychiatric treatments, social norms as they determine what's normal 
                        and the role of psychiatric labeling in enforcing these norms)
Remember the Titans (prejudice and discrimination)
 
 
Sensation and Perception
At First Sight (process of learning to perceive. suffering from visual 
                       agnosia)
 
 
Not Otherwise Stated
Charly 
Awakenings 
Fight Club
Fisher King
Girl Interrupted 
K-Pax
Mr. Jones 
Ordinary People
Primal Fear 
Taxi Driver
Vanilla Sky 
 
 
Books on the topic of Movies
Movies & Mental Illness: Using films to understand psychopathology 
               by Wedding & Boyd 
 
 
Websites
http://home.epix.net/~tcannon1/psychopathmovies/all.html (alphabetically 
            listed…any movie you could ever want on psychology)
http://www.funjournal.org/default.asp (The Journal of Undergraduate 
   Neuroscience Education-an article (full-text online) in its first 
   issue listing a number of different films with content appropriate for 
   a number of different topics in behavioral neuroscience)
http://faculty.dwc.edu/nicosia/moviesandmentalillnessfilmography.htm (variety 
of movie titles categorized by psychology area/mostly on mental    illness)
http://www.pbs.org/ (go to teacher source)
        Recommended NOVA Series entitled “Dieing to be Thin” for eating 
        disorders in athletics
http://www.cchr.org/art/eng/page34.htm site on Frances Farmer)
http://college.hmco.com/psychology/resources/students/screen/archive.html (list or resources/movies for psychology in general)
www.teachwithmovies.org (movies for all subject areas)
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/moviesn.html (neuroscience movies)
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/assignments.htm (general site 
            on social psychology)