Mental disorders in film Psychology

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Many films have portrayed mental disorders or used them as backdrops for other themes. This is a list of some of those films, sorted by disorder, regardless of whether or not the disorder is portrayed accurately. Thus, though 50 First Dates presents a case of anterograde amnesia, the type depicted does not actually exist.

Similarly, dissociative identity disorder, formerly called "multiple identity disorder", is one of the most controversial psychiatric disorders, with no clear consensus on diagnostic criteria or treatment. Most films purporting to represent dissociative identity disorder would not leave that impression.

Owing to the nature of drama, extreme and florid manifestations of any given disorder tend to prevail over the more subtle ones typical of the average case. For example, people with agoraphobia are generally portrayed in drama as recluses who never, or almost never, venture from their homes; in reality, this is rare and extreme, not typical of the agoraphobic population.


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Amnesia

Anterograde amnesia

A person with anterograde amnesia is unable to form new memories.

Retrograde amnesia

"A much-used plot device, retrograde amnesia occurs when a person forgets part or all of his or her past."

Psychogenic amnesia

"Psychogenic amnesia, also known as dissociative amnesia, is memory loss caused by psychological stress."

  • Spellbound - 1945
  • The Snake Pit - 1948
  • Shadow on the Wall - 1950
  • Marnie - 1964
  • Mirage - 1965
  • Mister Buddwing - 1966
  • The Machinist (2004) - insomnia and PTSD inducing or co-morbid with hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and dissociative disorder
  • Shutter Island (2010) - considered dissociative disorders

Lacunar amnesia

Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event.

  • What Lies Beneath - 2000
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004
  • Mysterious Skin - 2004
  • Trance - 2013
  • Dream Lock - 2015

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Together Brothers - 1974
  • Being There - 1979
  • The Boy Who Could Fly - 1986
  • Rain Man - 1988
  • House of Cards - 1993
  • What's Eating Gilbert Grape - 1993
  • Cube - 1997
  • Mercury Rising - 1998
  • Pi - 1998
  • Molly - 1999
  • Bless the Child - 2000
  • Elling - 2001
  • Miracle Run - 2004
  • Marathon - 2005
  • Mozart and the Whale - 2005
  • Snow Cake - 2006
  • Ben X - 2007
  • Her Name is Sabine (Elle s'appelle Sabine) - 2007
  • The Black Balloon - 2008
  • The Daisy Chain - 2008
  • Dark Floors - 2008
  • Adam - 2009
  • Alexander the Great - 2010
  • Dear John - 2010
  • My Name Is Khan - 2010
  • Ocean Heaven - 2010
  • Simple Simon - 2010
  • Temple Grandin - 2010
  • Mabul - 2011
  • Drive - 2011
  • Exodus Fall - 2011
  • Dr. Pomerantz - 2011
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - 2011
  • Fly Away - 2011
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 2011
  • Barfi! - 2012
  • NightLights - 2012
  • The Story of Luke - 2012
  • The Drop - 2014
  • The Imitation Game - 2014
  • Nightcrawler - 2014
  • A Brilliant Young Mind - 2015
  • Jack of the Red Hearts - 2015
  • Pawn Sacrifice - 2015
  • The Big Short - 2015
  • The Sense of Wonder - 2015
  • The Darkness - 2016
  • The Accountant - 2016
  • Power Rangers - 2017
  • Mozart and the Whale - 2005
  • Snow Cake - 2006
  • Ben X - 2007
  • Adam - 2009
  • Mary and Max - 2009
  • Temple Grandin - 2010
  • My Name Is Khan - 2010
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - 2011
  • Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - 2011
  • The Big Short - 2015

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Avoidant personality disorder


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Bipolar disorder




Conduct disorder

  • A Clockwork Orange - 1971
  • The Crush - 1993
  • The Good Son - 1993
  • The Butterfly Effect - 2004



Delusional disorder; and psychotic disorder not otherwise specified




Dementia

Alzheimer's disease




Depression

Dysthymia

  • American Splendor - 2003
  • Revolutionary Road - 2008



Dissociative identity disorder

Previously called "Multiple Personality Disorder."




Eating disorders




Factitious disorder

  • The Night Listener (film) - 2006



Folie à deux

"Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (F24) in the ICD-10."

  • Bug - 2006



Histrionic personality disorder




Hypersexuality

  • Rathinirvedam - 1978
  • Thakara - 1979
  • Pink Floyd--The Wall - 1982
  • Desatanakkili Karayarilla - 1986
  • Black Snake Moan - 2006
  • Choke - 2008
  • Shame - 2011
  • Silver Linings Playbook - 2012 character of Tiffany Maxwell, symptom of Borderline personality disorder
  • Nymphomaniac - 2013





Paranoid personality disorder

  • Vadakkunokkiyantram - 1989
  • Escobar: Paradise Lost - 2014
  • Pawn Sacrifice - 2014



Pedophilia




Personality disorder not otherwise specified

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - 1966
  • Taxi Driver - 1976



Pervasive developmental disorder

  • Charly - 1968
  • The Hand That Rocks the Cradle - 1992
  • I am Sam - 2001
  • Radio - 2003
  • In Her Shoes - 2005
  • Taare Zameen Par - 2007, Hindi
  • Heavy Load - 2008
  • The Reader - 2008
  • Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief - 2010
  • Mission To Lars - 2012



Posttraumatic stress disorder




Sadism

  • Martha - 1974 Helmut Salomn, Karlheinz Böhm
  • The Green Mile - 1999 Percy Wetmore, Doug Hutchinson
  • Speed - 1994 Howard Payne, Dennis Hopper



Schizoaffective disorder

  • Shine - 1996
  • Side Effects - 2013
  • Love & Mercy - 2014



Schizoid Personality Disorder

  • The Remains of the Day - 1993; James Stephens, Anthony Hopkins
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - 2002 character of Gollum
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 2003 character of Gollum
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - 2012 character of Gollum



Schizophrenia




Self-injury




Substance use disorder

"Drugs listed from most addictive, harmful or destructive to least (from most to least dangerous, based on a 2007 scientific research study."




Suicide

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