This page belongs to:

Tom Schoeneman

I am a Professor of Psychology at Lewis and Clark College and this Web page is designed for students in my courses, prospective students, and the interested Web browser.

What you will find here:

• Syllabi for some of my courses;
• A list of my publications;
  
• Published and unpublished papers and articles, mostly about stereotypes of madness;
  
• Pictures that illustrate visual stereotypes of insanity;
  
• A way to Search my pages.

Syllabi

Click on a link below to see my most recent syllabus for any of the courses listed.

Psych 240: Abnormal Psychology

Psych 340: Personality Theory

Psych 440: Social Construction of Madness

Psych 445: Psychology Internship

Psych 105: Perspectives in Film-Australian Film

Psych 105: Perspectives in Film-Alfred Hitchcock

Psych 105: Perspectives in Film-Stanley Kubrick

IS 240/241: Australia 2003 Orientation

Here is the website of the Spring 2003 Australia Overseas Program--you can see pictures and read journal entries.

Publications

My publications are listed here.

Stereotypes of Mental Disorder and AIDS

The Psychiatric Nosology of Everyday Life: Categories in Implicit Abnormal Psychology appeared in 1993 in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. The co-authors are former Lewis & Clark College students Suzanne Segerstrom, Andy Griffin, and David Gresham.

Seeing the Insane in Textbooks of Abnormal Psychology: I. Diagnosis and Gender in Visual Stereotypes of the Mentally Ill can be found here. We presented this paper at the 1992 annual meeting of the Western Psychological Association in Portland, OR. My student co-authors were Shannon Brooks, Carla Gibson, Julia Routbort, and Dieter Jacobs.

We presented a paper entitled Social Representations of AIDS at the 2002 meeting of the American Psychological Society in New Orleans, LA. Katie Schoeneman and Jelena Obradovic were my undergraduate co-authors. If you are interested, you can see a picture of co-authors Schoeneman and Schoeneman at the presentation in New Orleans.

Here are some pictures that illustrate visual stereotypes of madness.

Here are three screen shots from the movie M.

Here is a book review. It's titled Madness at the Movies. This review appeared in Contemporary Psychology in 1987.

Mental Disorder and the European Witch Hunts

The Witch Hunt as a Culture Change Phenomenon is located here. This was my first professional publication in 1975. It appeared in Ethos.

Here you can find Criticisms of the Psychopathological Interpretation of Witch Hunts: A Review. This article was originally published in 1982 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.

Another interpretation of the witch as portrayed in textbooks can be found here: The Mentally Ill Witch in Textbooks of Abnormal Psychology. Original publication was in 1984 in Professional Psychology.

Here is an unpublished paper about Johann Weyer.