BOOK CHAPTERS

2025 - Packer, Sharon: What’s in a Name? Madhouse Movies or Insane Asylum Cinema or Funny Farm Films? 

Madhouse Movies [McFarland, at press].

​2025 - Packer, Sharon: Where Is My Child? A Weird Welcome to America in Madhouse Movies [McFarland, in press]

​​2025 - Packer, Sharon: Romanticized Renditions vs. Realistic Depictions: The World of “Weepies” in Madhouse Movies

[McFarland, at press].

2023 - Packer, Sharon: How Did a Nice Jewish Girl Like You Get So Interested in Asia? in Eastern Religions, Spirituality and Psychiatry  [ed. HS Moffic et al. Switzerland: Springer Nature].

2023 - ​Packer, Sharon: "Idioms and Ideas: Meanings and Metaphors” in Lenses on Blindness: Essays on Vision Loss in Media, Culture, Religion and Experience (ed. Sharon Packer). [Jefferson, NC: McFarland].

2021 - Packer, Sharon: “Treating Christian Patients as a Non-Christian Psychiatrist” in Christianity and Psychiatry

[(ed. JR Peteet et al). Switzerland: Springer Nature].

2020 - Packer, Sharon: “How the Holocaust/Shoah Helped Shape 20th Century American Psychiatry in Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry" (eds. H Steven Moffic, JR Peteet, Ahmed Hankir, MV Seeman). [Switzerland: Springer Nature].

2020 - Packer, Sharon: “How the Holocaust/Shoah Helped Shape 20th Century American Psychiatry in Anti-Semitism and Psychiatry" (eds. H Steven Moffic, JR Peteet, Ahmed Hankir, MV Seeman). [Switzerland: Springer Nature].

2020 - Packer, Sharon: “APA Jewish-American Toolkit” (Division of Diversity and Health Equity), [American Psychiatric Association].

2019 - Packer, Sharon: “Arkham Asylum, Psychiatry, Science & Society” ,(eds. Sharon Packer and Daniel Fredrick): [Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland].

2019 - Packer, Sharon: “Harley Quinn and The Joker: Pitfalls of Doctor-Patient Romances” ,(eds. Sharon Packer and Daniel Fredrick): [Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland].

2019 - Packer, Sharon: “Murderous Minds, Arkham Villains and Real (not Reel) Life Movie Massacres” (eds. Sharon Packer and Daniel Fredrick): [Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland].

2019 - Packer, Sharon: “Arkham’s Sinister Psychiatrists and the Continuum with Caligari”, (eds. Sharon Packer and Daniel Fredrick): [Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland].

2019 - Packer, Sharon: “Surrealism’s Influence on Arkham & Psychiatry’s Influence on Surrealism”, (eds. Sharon Packer and Daniel Fredrick): [Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland].

2019 - Packer, Sharon: “Unethical Experiments in Arkham and Elsewhere” (eds. Sharon Packer and Daniel Fredrick): [Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland].

2019 - Packer, Sharon:“Why Arkham, Why Now?” (eds. Sharon Packer and Daniel Fredrick): [Welcome to Arkham Asylum: Essays on Psychiatry & the Gotham City Institution. Jefferson, NC: McFarland].

2019 - Packer, Sharon: “From Halfworld to Hellboy: Psychiatric Asylums and Mignola’s Comics Art” in The Mignolaverse: Hellboy and the Comics Art of Mike Mignola (ed. S.G. Hammond). [Edswardville, Ill: Sequard, 82-100].

2018 - Packer, Sharon: “Ansky’s The Dybbuk, Freud’s Future of an Illusion, Watson’s “Little Albert,” and Supernatural Horror in Literature” in New Directions in Supernatural Horror (ed. Sean Moreland). [New York: Palgrave-Macmillian, 61-75].

2018 - Packer, Sharon: “Jessica Jones (Superhero), Women and Alcohol Use Disorders” in Jessica Jones, Scarred Superhero (ed. Tim Rayburn and Abigail Keyes). [Jefferson, SC: McFarland, 2018].

2017 - Packer, Sharon:"Arkham Asylum’s Criminally Insane Inmates and Psychotic Psychiatrists” in Mental Illness in Popular Culture (ed. Sharon Packer) [Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 253-264].

2017 - Packer, Sharon: “Halfworld’s Loonies in Rocket Raccoon Comics: Serious or Satire” in Mental Illness in Popular Culture (ed. Sharon Packer) [Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 265-276].

2016 - Packer, Sharon: Revised Review of Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man (with an emphasis on logotherapy & Viktor Frankl) in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute, Volume I (ed. A. Batthyany) [Springer International AG, Char, 411-415].

2016 - Packer, Sharon:“Stress, Religion & Superheroes” in Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotions & Behavior" (ed. M Fink), [Academic Press, 465-475].

2015 - Packer, Sharon:“Demon Drugs or Demon Children, Take Your Pick” in Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters: Essays on Cinema’s Holy Terrors (eds. Markus P.J. Bohlmann and Sean Moreland, [Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 173-177].

2014 - Packer, Sharon:“Hannibal: His History and His Heirs” in The History of Evil in American Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King and Vampire Reveal about America, Volume 2. (Eds. Sharon Packer and Jody Pennington), [Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 64-75].

2014 - Packer, Sharon:“Bad Psychiatrists in Batman: A Mirror into a Murderer’s Mind?' in The History of Evil in American Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King and Vampire Reveal about America, Volume 2. (Eds. Sharon Packer and Jody Pennington), [Santa Barbara, CA: ABC Clio, 181-193].

2014 - Packer, Sharon: "Spider-Man’s Symbiote and the Early AIDS Epidemic" in History of Medicine, February Issue.

2007 - Packer, Sharon: “Stress & Religion” (updated and revised) in Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition (ed. M Fink), [Academic Press].

2007 - Packer, Sharon:“Stress and Religion after 9/11” in Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition (ed. M Fink), [Academic Press].

2002 - Packer, Sharon: “The Colorblind Cyberclass” in Race in the College Class (ed. B Tusmith & M Reddy), [Rutgers U Press, 264-276].

1998 - Packer, Sharon: “Stress & Religion” in Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition (ed. M Fink), [Academic Press, 348-355].

1997 - Packer, Sharon:“Tribute to Harry Friedenwald, Historian of Medicine” in Jewish Book Annual (ed. Philip Miller).