Anthony Tobia, Jason Mintz, Derek Rudge, Viwek Bisen, Adam Trenton, Thomas Draschil and Roseanne Dobkin
Films have long entertained people and affected their attitudes regarding a multitude of issues including mental illness. Over the decades, movies have depicted various aspects of psychiatry ranging from acculturation to the patient-therapist relationship. This paper summarizes a case formulation of the film, Sinister, and demonstrates how introducing a trivial modification to the plot could transform the film into a teaching didactic on the Dissociative Disorders