title: Using Breaking Bad to teach about defense mechanisms.
abstract: Defense mechanisms represent an important component of medical education that should be taught to all medical students, psychiatry residents, and other mental health trainees. Teaching about defense mechanisms can become more engaging by analyzing popular media. Using Breaking Bad, a well-known television show, we recommend specific scenes and episodes that can be used in teaching about defense mechanisms.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, jjohnson54@partners.org.
authors.forename: Justin M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Eugene V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Beresin
authors.forename: Theodore A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Stern
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009040:Motion Pictures; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D013690:Television