An Event by Psikeart – Psikesinema & Akbank Sanat
Coordinator: Prof. M. Emin Önder
Prof. M. Emin Önder serves as a specialist of psychiatry at Moodist Psychiatry and Neurology Hospital. / Psikeart Psychiatry Center was founded in 2006 by Prof. M. Emin Önder, who is a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry at Kocaeli University. He continues offering treatment and counselling services, as well as organising and participating in educational activities at the centre.
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In this day and age we think with images rather than words. Instead of recounting our memories with the use of words, we share them through images. As time goes by, the pen and paper are replaced by visual recording equipment. Cinema, with its aspects concerning psychiatry, philosophy, literature and aesthetics, is the apex of visual recording. In its broadest definition, psychiatry is the science of understanding human moods, its breaking points, and ensuring the healthy development of the individual’s psychic fabric. Anything and everything related to human beings, and all things that human beings relate to fall within the field of psychiatry. The path that psychiatry treads crosses that of the art of cinema, which aspires to understand, give an account of, and witness life. The inevitable interaction, the mutually beneficial relationship between psychiatry and cinema is an intrinsic quality of the latter that pursues to understand the human being, to tell its story, and in a way bear witness to the human condition. An awareness of the relationship between cinema and psychiatry would be consequential in terms of understanding, deepening, enriching and simplifying the language of cinema. “The Human Condition in Cinema” aims to create a platform of discussion to delve into the relationship between cinema, concerned with recounting, and psychiatry, concerned with understanding and unravelling.
DEPRESSION: THE PULP OF OF PAIN
18.30 – 20.00 FILM SCREENING: Anomalisa / Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman / Distributor: UIP (United International Pictures)
20.00 – 20.15 INTERMISSION
20.15– 21.30 DISCUSSION
Ayşe Devrim Başterzi (Moderator)
Prof. Dr. Emine Zinnur Kılıç
Şule Öncü