Babam ve Oğlum
Çağan Irmak, 2005
“Where is home? Migration, grief and belonging”
We used Çağan Irmak’s Babam ve Oğlum (My Father and My Son) to talk about migration, grief and belonging.
Film readings
Sine-Mani
Sine-Mani is a film-reading series in the teaching programme of the Department of Psychiatry, Selçuk University School of Medicine. We watch a film together, then discuss its characters and story through psychiatric concepts.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lynne Ramsay, 2011
“The neurodevelopmental roots of sociopathy”
We used We Need to Talk About Kevin to discuss the neurodevelopmental roots of sociopathy.
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer, 2023
“Defence and attack mechanisms of the self and of “us””
In our Thursday teaching sessions we used a striking film to discuss the defence and attack mechanisms of the self and of the group.
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle, 2014
“A not-so-super ego!”
We closed our summer teaching programme with Whiplash.
Joker
Todd Phillips, 2019
“Trauma, dissociation and beyond the border”
Through the character of Joker we discussed the biological, psychological and cultural sides of trauma and violence, and, following Kernberg’s model of personality organisation, how borderline organisation can shift towards psychotic organisation under strain, and the part dissociative mechanisms play in that shift.
Black Swan
Darren Aronofsky, 2010
“The impulsivity–compulsivity spectrum”
In the first Sine-Mani session, newly added to our teaching programme, we used Black Swan to discuss impulsivity, compulsivity and perfectionism. We watched the film together the evening before and discussed it the next day.