The following is a list of FILMS and the topics they may pertain to for the demonstration of psychological topics, themes, disorders and/or the characterization of the mental health worker and/or facilities. 12 Angry Men: eyewitness accounts; memory; projection 12 Monkeys: disorganized schizophrenia 28 Days: alcoholism 50 First Dates: short-term memory; head trauma A Beautiful Mind: paranoid schizophrenia A Clockwork Orange: behavior modification; sociopath Affliction: alcoholism American Psycho: sociopath; narcissistic and/or antisocial personality disorder Apocalypse Now: stress; post-traumatic stress disorder; "madness" Analyze This: psychotherapy An Angel at My Table: madness Arachnophobia: arachnophobia (fear of spiders) As Good As It Gets: obsessive-compulsive disorder Awakenings: medication intervention; catatonic states Basketball Diaries: heroin addiction Beaches: histrionic personality Benny and Joon: paranoid schizophrenia Bell Jar: mental breakdown Bill: mental retardation Boys Don't Cry: gender identity; homophobia Breakfast Club: adolescence; identity Cape Fear: antisocial personality disorder; sociopath The Cell: sleep and dreams; consciousness Charly: mental retardation Clean and Sober: alcoholism Coming Home: post-traumatic stress disorder Copycat: agoraphobia; sociopathic personality Crumb: schizoid personality disorder; schizophrenia Deer Hunter: post-traumatic stress disorder Dominick and Eugene: mental retardation Don Juan DeMarco: schizophrenia; delusions; institutionalization Dream Team: mental institution portrayal Drugstore Cowboy: drug addiction Eating: eating behavior; disorders Fisher King: schizophrenia Fly Away Home: imprinting Folks: Alzheimer's Frances: institutionalization; lobotomy French Kiss: aerophobia (fear of flying) Freud: psychoanalysis Girl, Interrupted: borderline personality disorder; depression; suicide Good Will Hunting: conduct disorder; patient-therapist interaction High Anxiety: acrophobia (fear of heights) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: schizophrenia In Cold Blood: sociopaths Jacob's Ladder: post-traumatic stress disorder; drug addiction Lars and the Real Girl: delusions Leaving Las Vegas: alcoholism Matchstick Men: obsessive-compulsive disorder; agoraphobia Memento: short-term memory loss; head trauma Mr. Jones: bipolar disorder (manic/depression) Nell: language acquisition Nuts: psychological disturbance One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: intitutionalization; electroshock therapy; depression Ordinary People: depression; suicide; therapy Overboard: amnesia/fugue The Other Sister: mental retardation Postcards From the Edge: drug and alcohol addiction Primal Fear: dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder) Prince of Tides: therapy; repressed memories Rain Man: autism Requiem for a Dream: prescription and illicit drug addiction Rush: drug addiction Seven: sociopath; narcissistic and/or antisocial personality disorder Shine: institutionalization; abuse Silence of the Lambs: sociopath The Sixth Sense: child therapist The Snake Pit: institutionalization; mental breakdown Sommersby: amnesia; fugue; post-traumatic stress disorder Sybil: dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder) Trading Places: nature vs. nurture Trainspotting: heroin addiction Three Faces of Eve: dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder) Tuesdays with Morrie: bereavement, developmental stages, death Unstrung Heroes: obsessive-compulsive disorder Vertigo: anxiety disorders What About Bob?: obsessive-compulsive disorder; portrayal of therapist and patient What Dreams May Come: consciousness; death; bereavement; depression What's Eating Gilbert Grape: mental retardation When a Man Loves a Woman: alcoholism; co-dependency The following are BOOKS available (arranged by subject) for those students who are interested in pursuing further information about psychology. MENTAL ILLNESS AND TREATMENT The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing by Judith L. Rappaport MD: obsessive-compulsive disorder Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber: multiple personality disorder I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg: schizophrenia Biography of a Schizophrenic Girl by Marguerite Sechehaye: schizophrenia The Broken Mirror by Katharine A. Phillips MD: body dysmorphic disorder The Sky Is Falling by Raeann Dumont: phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic attacks Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel: overmedication of America I'm Eve by Chris Costner Sizemore and Elen Sain Pittillo: multiple personalities The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut: schizophrenia Eclipse by Kristine L. Franklin: depression Bedlam: A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital by Dominick Bosco: treating mental illness A Brilliant Madness by Patty Duke and Gloria Hockman: manic-depressive disorder When Rabbit Howls by Truddi Chase: multiple personality disorder Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen: borderline personality disorder Whispers by Ronald K. Siegel: paranoia The Stranger in the Mirror by Marlene Steinberg and Maxime Schnall: dissociation Why They Kill by Richard Rhodes: roots of violence I Hate You, Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman: borderline personality disorder Hypochondria: Woeful Imaginings by Susan Baur: case studies and treatment of hypochondriacs We Heard the Angels of Madness by Diane & Lisa Berger: family coping with bipolar disorder A Cradle Will Fall by Carl Burak & Michele Remington: postpartum depression My Sister's Keeper by Margaret Moorman: coping with a sibling's mental illness DEVELOPMENT Dibs: In Search of Self by Virginia M. Aline: childhood disorder One Child by Torey L. Hayden: childhood abuse Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher PhD: female adolescent issues, eating disorders, self-esteem Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler: adolescent girls search for self A Child Called It by David Pelzer: childhood trauma and abuse Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom: facing death Morrie: In His Own Words by Morrie Schwartz: facing death Trapped in the Mirror by Elan Golomb: children of narcissists Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell: attention deficit disorder THEORIES Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: existentialism, logotherapy Walden Two by B.F. Skinner: community based on operant conditioning Understanding Human Nature by Alfred Adler: analysis of human behavior (neo-Freudian) If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him by Sheldon Kopp: criticism of psychotherapy Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung: archetypes What Freud Really Said by David Stafford-Clark: simple analysis of Freud Dialogue with Erik Erikson by Richard Evans: summary of Erikson's work The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung: searching for individualism Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B.F. Skinner: behaviorism Dora: An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud: case study Freud and the Post-Freudians by J.A. Brown: analysis of psychoanalytic theory NEUROBIOLOGY The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sack: brain disorder case studies The Shattered Mind by Howard Gardner: studies of individuals with brain injuries Phantoms in the Brain by VS Ramachandran & Sandra Blakeslee: phantom limb syndrome Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks: autobiographical about studies on the brain An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks: strange disorders of the brain Awakenings by Oliver Sacks: treating catatonia COGNITION Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman: intelligence quotient (IQ) vs. emotional quotient (EQ) Extraordinary Minds by Howard Gardner: case studies of individuals with superior intellectual skills Frames of Mind by Howard Gardner: study of how different individuals learn A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks by Dorothy G. Singer: interesting analysis of Piaget's theories SELF-HELP The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale: cognitive improvement What Color is Your Parachute? by Richard Bolles: finding an occupation Do What You Are by Paul D. Tieger: finding an occupation using Myers-Briggs personality typing The Art of Happiness: A Guide for Daily Living by Dalai Lama: how to deal with everyday stress The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey: time management The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck MD: spiritual growth