Mental Illness in Pop Culture

Mental Illness in Pop Culture episodes:

• 05.30.2020

  Mental Health and Pop Culture in the Pandemic: Mental Illness in Pop Culture S4 E1

  Video version of this podcast episode at https://youtu.be/aBD0yaUyGms We kick off season 4 of Mental Illness in Pop Culture by adding video, reintroducing ourselves. and getting authentic about mental health and pop culture during the pandemic. We each talk about personal...

  
• 10.16.2018

  Ain't Saints Radio: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  Recovery and redemption: It’s who they are and what they do. The Ain’t Saints Radio crew join Mental Illness in Pop Culture’s team for a podcast about their podcast. Each Ain’t Saints Radio episode features guests’ stories of addiction, recovery, and...

  
• 08.27.2018

  Robin Williams' Come Inside My Mind: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  Vulnerability, generativity, and a search for intimacy emerge as pervasive themes as we process and make sense of comedian and actor Robin Williams’ life, based on the HBO documentary Come Inside My Mind. We talk about hypomania, addiction, depression, amazing films...

  
• 08.12.2018

  Nebraska: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we explore age-related cognitive impairment, alcoholism, rural midwestern culture, family dynamics, and the psychosocial development stage Ego Integrity vs. Despair in Nebraska, directed by Alexander Payne and starring Bruce Dern. Guest...

  
• 08.04.2018

  Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, Beach Boys superfan Mark McGowan joins us as we explore family dynamics, birth order, addiction, schizoaffective disorder, creative genius, Love and Mercy, Charles Manson, the ethics of 24-hour therapy, and cousin...

  
• 07.31.2018

  Still Alice: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we analyze the impact of early familial Alzheimer’s in Still Alice, with Julianne Moore in the Academy Award-winning title role. We focus not only on how Alice and her family deal...

  
• 07.27.2018

  Ingrid Goes West: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, our analysis of Ingrid Goes West starring Aubrie Plaza leads to an exploration of obsession, social media, and “like” culture -- in the film . . . and our lives! Ingrid’s...

  
• 07.23.2018

  Wild: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we explore revelation and restoration in Wild, starring Reese Witherspoon, based on author Cheryl Strayed's 1,000-mile walkabout to overcome addiction and depression following grief and loss. We examine the archetypal "hero's...

  
• 07.15.2018

  Pearl Jam and Jeremy: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, guest podcaster Andrew Plath joins us to explore mental health issues related to Pearl Jam and “Jeremy,” a song and video about a boy who finds voice by bringing a gun...

  
• 12.15.2017

  The Stanford Prison Experiment: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we examine The Stanford Prison Experiment, in film and real life. A coin toss determined whether volunteers would be “guards” or “prisoners” in this controversial research project. We welcome guest-podcaster and...

  
• 12.09.2017

  Loony Toons: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  Pepe Le Pew, Bugs Bunny, and Wile E. Coyote are among the Loony Toons characters whose mental health issues and identities we dissect in the first episode of Season 3 of Mental Illness in Pop Culture. Other cartoon characters mentioned: Foghorn...

  
• 12.06.2017

  Mental Illness in Pop Culture Season 3 Introduction

  We preview season 3 of Mental Illness in Pop Culture and welcome Dr. Joe Flynn to the podcasting team!

  
• 05.07.2017

  Moonlight: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  2016 Academy Award winning Moonlight intersects race, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, interpersonal violence, and emotional neglect, all swirling around together with the identity development challenge of intimacy vs. isolation. These issues come together in three compelling chapters from the...

  
• 04.29.2017

  Harold and Maude: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  The cult classic and dark romantic comedy Harold and Maude puts a humorous yet existential gender spin on the May-December motif, with 20-year-old Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) proposing his love to 79-year-old Dame Marjorie “Maude” Chardin (Ruth Gordon). Filled with...

  
• 04.21.2017

  The Soloist: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this extra-long episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we examine The Soloist, featuring Jamie Foxx as the titled character, Nathaniel Ayers, Jr., a homeless musical prodigy with severe mental illness, and Robert Downey, Jr. as Steve Lopez, the...

  
• 04.15.2017

  Manchester by the Sea: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we explore abandonment, complex grief, depression, pain, New England masculine identity, forgiveness, dysfunctional coping strategies, anhedonia, family trauma, binge drinking, lack of professional helping, and acceptance of personal limitations in the...

  
• 04.07.2017

  Amy: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  We examine a variety of mental health issues, seeming contradictions, and tragic beauty in Amy, the 2015 Academy-Award-winning documentary about vocalist, musician, and songwriter Amy Winehouse, who became known as much for her "gobby" lifestyle/self-presentation, search for love, and exploitation...

  
• 04.01.2017

  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  We explore themes of freedom/oppression, empowerment, and escape as well as rampant religious symbolism within this Academy-Award-sweeping film that still holds up 40+ years later. Randall Patrick "Mac" MacMurphy (Jack Nicholson) bluffs his way into a mental institution to avoid...

  
• 04.01.2017

  Season 2 Introduction: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this introductory episode to our second season of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we introduce ourselves (including new team members Broc and Leanne), talk about our interest/experience with mental health issues and professional helping, and plan for upcoming episodes!

  
• 12.17.2016

  Processing the Podcast: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this episode, Adam, Anna, Olivia, Toni, and Scott summarize what they've learned through the first season of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, going meta- on film and episode highlights, the collaborative process of working together, and podcasting itself, all...

  
• 12.07.2016

  Inside Out: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  "Do you ever look at someone and wonder, 'What is going on inside their head?'" In this episode of Mental Illness in Pop Culture, we take an "Inside Out" look at Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust as they shape...

  
• 11.29.2016

  Silver Linings Playbook: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on mental health issues experienced by various characters in Silver...

  
• 11.21.2016

  The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on mental health issues experienced by various characters in The...

  
• 11.15.2016

  Stevie: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. This episode centers around Stevie, who when growing up participated in the Big Brothers /...

  
• 11.08.2016

  A Beautiful Mind: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we discuss the portrayal of genius, creativity, social awkwardness, paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis,...

  
• 11.01.2016

  The Devil and Daniel Johnston: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on the intersection of genius, creativity, and mental health issues...

  
• 10.24.2016

  Girl Interrupted: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  Note: This episode contains quoting of main characters using profanity. In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on...

  
• 10.17.2016

  Antwone Fisher: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on the real-life character Antwone Fisher and his mental health...

  
• 10.11.2016

  Ordinary People: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on relationships in the film Ordinary People that main character...

  
• 10.04.2016

  Good Will Hunting: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  In this series, we focus on pop culture portrayals of mental health issues and professional helping, believing that media both reflect and influence popular perception. In this episode, we focus on the film Good Will Hunting, giving most of our...

  
• 09.30.2016

  Introductory Episode: Mental Illness in Pop Culture

  We focus on mental health issues and professional helping as portrayed in popular culture, with the belief that media both reflect and shape public perception of these topics. In this episode, we introduce ourselves and talk about why doing a...