Welcome to our webpage dedicated to the works of writer-director M. Night Shyamalan and the role his films play in teaching the topic of psychiatry. At Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, we’ve created a course within our REDRUMTM (Reviewing Mental Disorders with a Reverent Understanding of the Macabre) curriculum that teaches psychopathology through selected films of M. Night Shyamalan. Click on a movie below for an overview of its synopsis and how the plot can be transformed into a fictional case of mental illness.
| Scarlet Knight Shyamalan | ||
| Film | Year | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| The Sixth Sense | 1999 | Somatic Symptom Disorders |
| Unbreakable | 2000 | Psychotic Disorders |
| Signs | 2002 | Sleep Disorders |
| The Village | 2004 | Mood Disorders |
| The Visit | 2008 | Delirium and Dementia1 |
| Devil | 2010 | Personality Disorders |
| Split | 2016 | Dissociative Disorders |
| 1. Renamed Major Neurocognitive Disorder | ||
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