Fritz Engstrom, M.D., is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School and Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs at the Brattleboro Retreat. For twenty years, he has collected riveting scenes from popular movies to teach the understanding and treatment of mental illness to residents, medical students, psychology students, patients, and the general public. His book guides readers into locating appropriate teaching scenes, and using them with varied audiences. He embraces multi-sensorial teaching and especially incorporates visual subjects into the predominantly verbal culture of behavioral therapies
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