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I remember that one of Peter Gabriel's albums (his third?) came out
while I was taking an abnormal psych class, it it occurred to me that every song
dealt with some form of mental illness- no self control, intruder,
family snapshot, etc. great album, too.
Marty Bourgeois
University of Wyoming
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From: Rick Stevens
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Sent: Fri 7/16/2004 10:47 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
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Subject: Re: Popular Songs about Mental
Illness
A couple of my favorites are Madman
Across the Water, by Elton John, and I Don't Like Mondays, by the Boomtown
Rats. The former sounds schizophrenic and sad. The latter sounds
kind of perky but is about a 16 year-old girl who shot up a grade school,
injuring several students and killing a couple of adults. When asked why
she said, "I don't like Mondays."
This is from
snopes.com...
On
29 January 1979, 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer opened fire on children
arriving at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego from her house across the
street, killing two men and wounding eight students and a police officer.
Principal Burton Wragg was attempting to rescue children in the line of fire
when he was shot and killed, and custodian Mike Suchar was slain attempting to
aid Wragg.
Spencer used a rifle her father had given her as a gift. As to what
impelled her into this form of murderous madness, she told a reporter,''I
don't like Mondays. This livens up the day.''
The
"Mondays" comment was not the only eyebrow-raising declaration to issue from
Spencer that day. According to a report written by the police negotiators who
spoke with her during the six-hour standoff, she made such comments to them as
''There was no reason for it, and it was just a lot of fun''; ''It was just
like shooting ducks in a pond''; and ''[the children ] looked like a herd of
cows standing around, it was really easy pickings.''
Jeff
Bartel wrote:
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
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