Psychocinema

This book seeks to provide a unique experience in our Arab world that combines medicine and art, with the aim of enriching knowledge in these two overlapping fields, by presenting them to the interested reader, whether specialist or non-specialist, in a balanced scientific style and simplified and easy language to suit all readers.This book will take you on an exciting exploratory journey between the paths of science, art, history and literature, and will reveal to you many of the hidden secrets of psychiatry throughout its long and exciting history, presenting everything you want to know about the various psychological disorders with their symptoms, causes, and methods of diagnosis and treatment, highlighting how accurately films depict the world of psychiatry on the screen, and was cinema an honest "mirror" that reflects to us the true face of psychological disorders and the suffering of its patients, or was it overcome by imagination and made a number of mistakes - and perhaps Scientific sins? This is what the chapters of this book will reveal to you, which begins with a long chapter on the history of psychiatry in parallel with the history of cinema, and then goes on to cover cinema''s treatment of some important psychological disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar, post-traumatic stress disorder, and autism spectrum disorder.