Week 1: Mood, Personality, & Sleep
The Suicide of Dorothy Hale
Frida Kahlo, 1939 (James C. Harris, 2003)
To learn the science of mind and behavior, we begin by reflecting upon the experience of persons with mental illness. Start the week by spending a couple minutes with a painting depicting an experience of mental illness. What is happening here? What comes to mind? Why? Want to learn more? Follow the white rabbit.
Reading myself - Robert Lowell
Now let’s read a poem. Read it twice. What emotions do you feel? Want to know even more? Wander down the rabbit hole.
Epidemiology
Let’s zoom out to the population level. Spend the next five minutes exploring population-health datasets to understand the experience of mental illness locally, nationally, and internationally.
Learn more
what are you reading these days? here are some suggestions if you're feeling bookish
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(First edition. ed.).
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(Seventh edition. ed.)
- Pocket guide to DSM-5-TR Diagnostic Exam
- Matt Haig (2016)
- Kay Redfield Jamison (1995)
- Susanna Kaysen (1993)
- Sylvia Plath (1966)
- George Scialabba (2020)
- William Styron (1990)
- Virginia Woolf (1925)
- Dan G. Blazer (2005)
- Kay Redfield Jamison (1993)
- Andrew Solomon (2002)
- DSM-5® Diagnostic Criteria Mobile App.
DSM 5-TR app - new Neuroscience based Nomenclature. NbN2r app
- Calgary Guides can be searched online
Now let's play a game
Remember Memory? Match a pair of cards. Once a match is made, you earn an opportunity to learn this week’s material. Don’t like games?