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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
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