Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology

About Danny Wedding

Danny Wedding PhD MPH retired from the University of Missouri School of Medicine to become the Associate Dean for Management and International Programs at the California School of Professional Psychology Alliant International University San Francisco. In this role he had oversight responsibility for psychology graduate programs in Hong Kong Tokyo and Mexico City. He subsequently chaired the Department of Behavioral Science and Neuroscience for the American University of Antigua School of Medicine and served in a variety of roles for the American University of the Caribbean in Sint Maarten. Danny is a retired navy captain who was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow working in the Senate and an APA Congressional Science Fellow working in the House of Representatives. He is the former editor of PsycCRITIQUES: Contemporary Psychology - APA Review of Books the senior editor for Hogrefe's book series on Advances in Psychotherapy: Evidence-Based Practice and the coauthor of Positive Psychology at the Movies. Danny's best-known book is Current Psychotherapies now in its 11th edition. He lives in West Linn Oregon where he continues to write and lecture on the portrayal of mental illness in contemporary cinema.