Psychiatry, old age and relationships in Professor Robert Abrams’ words

Family relationships, traumas from childhood echo in love life, dementia and geriatrics. In this broad interview, Professor of Old Age Psychiatry, Robert Abrams (Weill Cornell University, New York, USA) tells the Screening Room editor of Medical Humanities Khalid Ali about his contributions to the journal. Robert Abrams was interviewed at the Cairo Medfest, the First Arab Forum for Medicine in Film, in January 2017. Please visit the Medical Humanities website (http://mh.bmj.com/) and blog (http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/). More information on the books and films mentioned in this interview below: The violet hour - book review: http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2016/06/10/the-reading-room-the-violet-hour-great-writers-at-the-end/; Never let me go - essay: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26578716; Manequin - film review: http://dev.blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2016/12/07/film-review-mannequin/; Crying with laughter - film review: http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2016/08/11/film-review-crying-with-laughter/; Studio - film review: http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2016/05/31/the-screening-room-old-age-loneliness-and-cinema/?utm_source=TrendMD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Medical_Humanities__TrendMD-0;

Dry, hot summer - film review: http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2016/01/04/khalid-ali-taxi-ride-to-eternity-review-of-dry-hot-summers/?utm_source=TrendMD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Medical_Humanities__TrendMD-0.