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*''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'' – 2007 morphine, LSD, cannabis
*''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'' – 2007 morphine, LSD, cannabis
*''[[Enter the Void]]'' – 2008 DMT, methamphetamine, cocaine, alcohol, MDMA, LSD, cannabis
*''[[Enter the Void]]'' – 2008 DMT, methamphetamine, cocaine, alcohol, MDMA, LSD, cannabis
*"[[American Horror Story (2011 TV series)|American Horror Story]] - 2011heroin, cocaine, alcohol
*''[[Anna Karenina (2012 film)|Anna Karenina]]'' – 2012 morphine
*''[[Anna Karenina (2012 film)|Anna Karenina]]'' – 2012 morphine
*''[[Flight (2012 film)|Flight]]'' – 2012 heroin, cocaine, alcohol
*''[[Flight (2012 film)|Flight]]'' – 2012 heroin, cocaine, alcohol

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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 really exist.

In particular, 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.

General list

Title Year released IMDB rating (2017) Mental disorder
Finding Nemo 2003 8.1 Anterograde amnesia
Winter Sleepers 1997 7.3 Anterograde amnesia
Clean Slate 1994 5.6 Anterograde amnesia
Fight Club 1999 8.8 Dissociative identity disorder
A Beautiful Mind 2001 8.2 Schizophrenia
Memento 2000 8.5 Anterograde amnesia
What Dreams May Come 1998 7.0 Depression
The Night Listener 2006 5.9 Factitious disorder
Awakenings 1990 7.8
Sideways 2004 7.5
Julien Donkey Boy 1999 6.7
Silver Linings Playbook 2012 7.8 Depression & bipolar
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 8.7
Rain Man 1988 8.0 Autism spectrum disorder
Black Swan 2010 8.0
Shutter Island 2010 8.1
Lars and the Real Girl 2007 7.4
What's Eating Gilbert Grape 1993 7.8 Autism spectrum disorder
The Three Faces of Eve 1957 7.2 Dissociative identity disorder
American Psycho 2000 7.6 Psychotic
Donnie Darko 2001 8.1
The Silence of the Lambs 1991 8.6 Psychotic
The Aviator 2004 7.5 Schizophrenia
The Soloist 2009 6.7

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."

Lacunar amnesia

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

Anxiety disorders

Agoraphobia

Social anxiety disorder

Antisocial personality disorder

Asperger syndrome

Autism

Avoidant personality disorder

The Peanuts Movie - 2015 character of Charlie Brown

Bipolar disorder

Borderline personality disorder

Conduct disorder

Delusional disorder; and psychotic disorder not otherwise specified

Dementia

Alzheimer's disease

Depression

Dysthymia

Dissociative identity disorder

See also psychogenic amnesia (dissociative amnesia)

Eating disorders

Erotomania

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."

Hypersexuality

Histrionic personality disorder

Intermittent explosive disorder

Malingering, Munchausen syndrome, factitious disorder

Munchausen syndrome by proxy

Narcissistic personality disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Paranoid personality disorder

Pedophilia

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Pervasive developmental disorder

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Sadistic personality disorder

Schizoaffective disorder

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."[12]

Suicide

Ungrouped

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Catsoulis, Jeanette (22 August 2013). "A Plumber Lends a Sympathetic Ear". New York Times. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  2. ^ Dave Trumbore (October 10, 2013). "Bella Thorne and Kyra Sedgwick Tackle BIG SKY". Collider. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  3. ^ Chocano, Carina (5 March 2006). "`THE OSCAR' Hollywood's Rotten Apple". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Shame (2011) Plot keywords". Internet Movie Database.
  5. ^ Sue
  6. ^ Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite (My SO Has Depression)
  7. ^ Evelyn B. Kelly (2015). The 101 Most Unusual Diseases and Disorders. ABC-CLIO. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-1-61069-676-0.
  8. ^ "Skeptical Cinema: 'Bug' and folie à deux". CFI Center for Inquiry. 2013. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  9. ^ Light, Alan (May 29, 2015). "In _éïLove & Mercy,_éì Brian Wilson Is Portrayed by John Cusack and Paul Dano". The New York Times.
  10. ^ Stateside at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  11. ^ "FX Networks orders pilot for 'Legion'". Marvel News. 14 October 2015.
  12. ^ Nutt, D; King LA; Saulsbury W; Blakemore C (24 March 2007). "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse". The Lancet. 369 (9566): 1047_éç1053. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4. PMID 17382831.

References

  • Danny Wedding, Mary Ann Boyd and Ryan M. Niemiec, Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology, 2nd ed., Cambridge, MA, Hogrefe & Hufer Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-88937-292-6. http://www.hogrefe.com/program/movies-and-mental-illness.html
  • David J. Robinson, Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions, Rapid Psychler Press, 2003, ISBN 1-894328-07-8.
  • Glen O. Gabbard and Krin Gabbard, Psychiatry and the Cinema, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2nd ed., 1999, ISBN 0-88048-964-2.
  • Otto F. Wahl, Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness, Piscataway, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8135-2213-7.