General Extra Reading/ Media List

Psychology is a subject that is constantly in the news and each week there are documentaries on TV that relate to Psychology. Keep an eye on the home page of this blog - each week I will draw your attention to any programmes that look useful.

Below are links to some TV and Radio programmes that are useful for Psychology.

• All in the Mind click here for all past episodes

• The Brain - A Secret History: Mind Control click here

• THIN a Documentary about anorexia click here

• Derren Brown uses a lot of Psychology in his TV shows click here

Below is a list of novels and books that are Psychology related. Click on the hyperlink to learn more about them.

• The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 

• The Interpretation of Murder

• Mapping Murder

• Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer

• This Book has Issues: Adventures in Popular Psychology

• The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime

• Opening Skinner's Box

• Psychology: The Science of the Mind and Human Behaviour

Below is a list of films that have a lot of Psychological content - note that some of these may not be suitable for GCSE students.

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• Girl Interrupted

• The Experiment

• A Clockwork Orange

• Fight Club

• Rain Man

• Memento

• 12 Angry Men

• American Beauty

• A Beautiful Mind

• Shutter Island

• Sybil