This course introduces the basic psychoanalytic concepts defining the mental illnesses to the students. The students will be able to gain a psychoanalytic perspective in evaluating mental illnesses through analyzing certain movies. The students will be able to detect a mental illness in a movie and earn a wide understanding about its effects on and relation to the individuals. The students will be able to sketched out the representation of a mental illness in daily life and in a certain culture. The students will acquire the ability to clinically evaluate an individual's mental illness.