Psychiatry Professor Anthony Tobia has created the “Psy-feld” teaching method for his students at Rutgers’ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Third and fourth year students “are assigned to watch two episodes a week and then discuss the psychopathology demonstrated on each.”
Tobia has created a set of teaching points for every single “Seinfeld” episode.
The Associated Press reports (via Philly.com):
“You have a very diverse group of personality traits that are maladaptive on the individual level,” Tobia said. “When you get these friends together, the dynamic is such that it literally creates a plot: Jerry’s obsessive-compulsive traits combined with Kramer’s schizoid traits, with Elaine’s inability to forge meaningful relationships and with George being egocentric.”
His diagnosis of Newman? “Very sick.”
Third-year student Marlene Wang said the exercise leads to having more practical and relatable examples than a textbook.
“In this way, it just gives you a more solid picture of the pathology rather than just giving you words,” Wang said.
Tobia has also written an academic paper that analyzes five of Elaine’s boyfriends from the show to explain delusional disorder.
I wonder what the disorder is from which Bania suffers in that he has no idea what a “meal” is.
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