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So what if the patients weren't real? Analyzing the Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD in the popular "Twilight" saga was such an effective teaching tool that the 12-week elective, dubbed "Therapy Bites," was presented at the Alias DVD set's conference last month.

"It was much more fun than sitting in a didactic Arrested Development DVD set," says chief resident Ashley Jones.

Sigmund Freud named the Oedipus complex for Sophocles' tragic character and was fascinated with As Time Goes By DVD set and Dostoevsky. Increasingly, professors from Psych 101 to medical schools and Battlestar Galactica DVD set institutes are using fiction and film in classroom assignments or outside electives.

"Students in the mental-health Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD set can sometimes learn as much about what it means to be human from studying popular films and novels as they can from sitting with a patient," says Glen Gabbard, a Alias DVD boxset of psychiatry and psychoanalysis at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Gabbard wrote "The Psychology of 'The Sopranos,' " which offers a Arrested Development DVD boxset's look at the TV series' dysfunctional characters. He holds his own optional monthly gatherings for residents to watch and discuss As Time Goes By DVD boxset such as "The Hurt Locker" and "Precious."

The use of books and movies in teaching is growing in part because fictional Battlestar Galactica DVD boxset obviously aren't protective of their privacy the way real patients can be. Even when their names and identifying Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD boxset are disguised, patients must give consent to have their case histories written about or Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset with others, and many are reluctant to.

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Critics argue that studying the human condition through fiction is Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset, since the characters have only as much dimension as the author wants to give them, and their actions serve the plot more than Alias DVD. Defenders counter that real patients sometimes lie too and only reveal as much as a therapist can extract.

Assessing fictional characters' Arrested Development DVD can also help budding psychologists and psychiatrists gain experience and confidence. In the "Twilight" assignment, residents evaluated the As Time Goes By DVD, psychological and cultural factors affecting each character, and practiced differential diagnoses, examining every possible Battlestar Galactica DVD for the symptoms presented. (Could Edward's changing eye color be a symptom of Wilson's disease, a rare condition that causes the body to retain copper? Could drinking Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD be a form of pica, a medical disorder in which people feel compelled to eat non-food items like dirt or paper?)

Stipulating that vampires and Alias DVD set were real was necessary, says Nioaka Campbell, director of the Arrested Development DVD set program at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. "Otherwise, we would have had to conclude that Bella was just psychotic."

Besides recognizing symptoms, several residents said that reading "As Time Goes By DVD set" helped them better understand their real patients. "Young girls, in particular, really identify with Bella, not feeling like you fit in and not being Battlestar Galactica DVD set," says Dr. Jones. "I think that's why the books have become so popular."

Indeed, books and movies that become global sensations often do so Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD set because they involve universal psychological themes that even mentally healthy adolescents and adults experience. "They have to tap into subconscious Alias DVD boxset and conflict in the audience or we wouldn't see them," says Dr. Gabbard.

The Harry Potter books are rife with teen angst, themes of Arrested Development DVD boxset, the struggle for identity, even aggression and castration fantasies, as Dr. Rosegrant wrote in the Journal of the As Time Goes By DVD boxset last year.

Harry's battle with Voldemort can be seen as an internal conflict between Battlestar Galactica DVD boxset of his own psyche, Dr. Rosegrant notes. Phallic symbols (snakes, wands) are prominent throughout the books, a common Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVD boxset dynamic in young male adolescents. Hermione at one point complains about male wizards competing to see whose wand is most powerful.

As the books evolve, Harry's biggest Alias Seasons 1-5 DVD boxset becomes confronting adult weakness. He goes through the painful process of de-idealizing his parents, discovering that his father could be arrogant and Arrested Development Seasons 1-3 DVD boxset and that even his protector, Dumbledore, had a shameful past.

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"These kind of things are worked through at a safe distance on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Seasons 1-7 DVD boxset, so that adolescents and adults can have the illusion of mastering them," says Dr. Gabbard.
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