Although the original poster did ask for "Popular" songs about mental illness, which by definition, most of the recommendations so far do not meet, most of the songs I can think of also are not popular nor have been heard by more than 10000 people or so. But that of course does not make these songs bad for class inclusion, particulary in conjunction with education.
Here is one so far. It was mentioned in a similar thread a few years ago. For Personality, Robyn Hitchcock's 'Uncorrected Personality Traits.' -Mike Lee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Bartel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 11:09 AM Subject: Re: Popular Songs about Mental Illness > on 7/16/2004 9:48 AM Marjorie S. Hardy said the following: > > > I'm teaching Abnormal Psychology this fall and am looking to do > > something a little different this time. I've always been interested in > > the depiction of mental illness in the media. Instead of films this > > time (which can be long, expensive, and difficult to fit into > > classtime), I thought I would bring some popular and classical rock > > songs (maybe some country as well?) to class to introduce the > > different disorders. > > > I often play music before my general psychology class, and I allow > students to submit song ideas for extra credit. I compiled a list of > songs that correspond to the chapters I cover, and they're available > from this page: > http://www.ship.edu/~jsbart/psy101/music.html > Scroll down toward the bottom, and you'll find the songs relevant to the > Psychological Disorders chapter. > > It's been a couple of semesters since I've updated the list, so you'll > find that there aren't too many recent songs on it. In fact, the list > started out as only being relevant songs that I owned, and about 3/4 of > it remains that way. Given that my music collection hasn't been growing > much recently, you'll find most of the songs date from the late '60s to > mid '90s or so. > > Jeff > > -- > Jeffrey Bartel > Assistant Professor > Department of Psychology, FSC 227 > Shippensburg University > Shippensburg, PA 17257 > jsbart @ wharf.ship.edu / 717.477.1324 > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
