Psychiatry In Moon Knight

Disorders in Moon Knight

  • “According to the DSM-5, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is described as a disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states or an experience of possession.” (American Psychiatric Association 2013)

  • “A chronic brain disorder that affects about one percent of the population. When schizophrenia is active, symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, trouble with thinking and lack motivation.” (American Psychiatric Association, 2013)

  • The DSM-V recognizes three clusters of personality disorders.

    Cluster A: Paranoid Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

    Cluster B: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder

    Cluster C: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder.

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Meet the Creator of the Moon Knight Didactic

Erin Collier

Erin Collier received a B.A. in History at Fordham University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.P.H. at the University of Miami. She expects to earn her M.D. from Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in May 2023. As a medical student, she has worked with Dr. Anthony Tobia to create and teach a six-week didactic for undergraduates at Rutgers University in which she used the television series Moon Knight to illustrate psychiatric differential diagnoses. She later presented on the topic at the 2023 Popular Culture Association conference in her talk titled “Dissociative Identity Disorder in Moon Knight: Balancing the Scales.” Erin will be starting her General Psychiatry Residency in June 2023 at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and hopes to continue using film and popular culture to teach medical students about psychiatric diagnoses.