“Seinfeld” — the long-running sitcom billed as being about nothing — has resurfaced at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital as a psychiatrist’s teaching tool to help students identify certain disorders.
NJ.com reported that Anthony Tobia is offering medical students at the facility a “Psy-feld” class that focuses on the personalities of the show’s key characters — and that identifies their individual, accompanying mental issues.
Third- and fourth-year medical students have to watch two shows each week, and then provide an assessment that discusses the psychopathologic elements of each character.
People were interested in these podcasts
For instance, the main character — Jerry Seinfeld — has an obsessive compulsive disorder, Mr. Tobia said, NJ.com reported. George Costanza, meanwhile, is egocentric; Kramer is schizoid; and Elaine has great difficulty forging and maintaining meaningful relationships. Newman, he says, displays “very sick” behaviors.
Seinfeld isn’t the only show Mr. Tobia uses as a teaching tool. He also teaches a class where students tweet their thoughts about potential psychiatric disorders of characters in notable films such as “Fargo,” NJ.com reported.
Contact the author
Please read our comment policy before commenting.