List of films about mental disorders
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This is a list of films which have portrayed mental disorders.
Inclusion in this list is based upon the disorder as it is portrayed in the canon of the film, and does not necessarily reflect the diagnosis or symptoms in the real world.
Agoraphobia
- What About Bob? – 1991 – character of Bob Wiley played by Bill Murray[1]
- The Aviator – 2004 – character of Howard Hughes played by Leonardo DiCaprio[2]
Antisocial personality disorder
(Antisocial Personality Disorder should also include psychopathy and sociopathy.)
- Nightcrawler – 2014 – character of Louis Bloom played by Jake Gyllenhaal[3]
- The Invisible Man – 2020 – character of Adrian Griffin played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen[4]
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Juno – 2007 – character of Juno MacGuff, played by Elliot Page[5]
Autism
- Rain Man − 1988 – character of savant Raymond Babbitt played by Dustin Hoffman[6]
- Cube – 1997 – character of savant Kazan played by Andrew Miller[7]
- Ben X − 2007 – character of Ben played by Greg Timmermans[8]
- The Accountant - 2016 - character Christian Wolff played by Ben Affleck
Borderline personality disorder
- Mommie Dearest – 1981 – character of Joan Crawford played by Faye Dunaway[9]
- Fatal Attraction – 1987 – character of Alex Forrest played by Glenn Close[10]
- Single White Female – 1992 – character of Hedra Carlson/Ellen Besch played by Jennifer Jason Leigh[11]
- The Crush – 1993 – character of Adrian Forrester played by Alicia Silverstone[12]
- Mad Love – 1995 – character of Casey Roberts played by Drew Barrymore[12]
- Girl, Interrupted – 1999 – character of Susanna Kaysen played by Winona Ryder[13]
- Thirteen – 2003 – character of Evie played by Nikki Reed [14]
- Silver Linings Playbook – 2012 – character of Tiffany Maxwell played by Jennifer Lawrence[15]
- Welcome to Me – 2014 – character of Alice Klieg played by Kristen Wiig[16]
Conversion disorder
- Tommy – 1975 – character of Tommy played by Roger Daltrey[17]
Dissociative identity disorder
- Primal Fear - 1996 - character of Aaron Stampler played by Edward Norton[18]
- Split - 2016 - character of Kevin Wendell Crumb played James McAvoy[19]
- Dead Ringers – 1998 – characters of Beverly and Elliot Mantle played by Jeremy Irons[20]
- Bug (2006) – characters of Agnes White played by Ashley Judd and Peter Evans played by Michael Shannon[21][22]
Kleptomania
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower – 2012 – character of Charlie Kelmeckis played by Logan Lerman[24]
- Iron Man 3 – 2013 – character of Tony Stark played by Robert Downey Jr.[25]
Schizoaffective disorder
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day – 1991 – character of Sarah Connor played by Linda Hamilton[26]
Schizoid personality disorder
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – 2002 – character of Gollum[27]
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – 2003 – character of Gollum[27]
- Lars and the Real Girl – 2007 – Lars Lindstrom[28]
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – 2012 – character of Gollum[27]
Schizophrenia
- A Beautiful Mind – 2001 – character of John F. Nash played by Russell Crowe[29]
- Donnie Darko – 2001 – character of Donnie Darko played by Jake Gyllenhaal[30]
- The Voices – 2014 – character of Jerry Hickfang played by Ryan Reynolds[31]
- Words on Bathroom Walls – 2020 – Character of Adam Petrazelli played by Charlie Plummer[32]
Stuttering
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1975 - character of Billy Bibbit played by Brad Dourif[33]
- The King's Speech – 2010 – character of King George VI played by Colin Firth[34]
- IT – 2017 – character of Bill Denbrough played by Jaeden Martell[35]
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."[36]
- Colossal – 2016 – character of Gloria played by Anne Hathaway[37]
See also
Notes
- ^ "What About Bob: A Psychological Analysis". Prezi.com.
- ^ "The Aviator Howard Hughes OCD And Bipolar Research Paper – 1673 Words by Paperdue". Paperdue.com.
- ^ Lou Leminick. "Gyllenhaal stuns as a sociopathic TV cameraman in 'Nightcrawler'". New York Post.
- ^ Jake Coyle. "Film Review: 'Invisible Man' is a cunning if empty remake". Washington Times.
- ^ Gregory, B. and, Milazzo, M. (August 16, 2020). "Peculiar Picture Show: Juno: A Great Portrayal of ADHD, with Teen Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression". Peculiarpicture.show.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Knights, Karl (December 17, 2018). "Rain Man made autistic people visible. But it also entrenched a myth | Karl Knights". The Guardian.
- ^ Autism and Representation edited by Mark Osteen, Autism in Film by Baker
- ^ "Nic Balthazar maakt theaterstuk en film over jongeren en pesten" [Nic Balthazar makes a film about young people and bullying]. Het Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 16 January 2005. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
- ^ Gregory, B. and, Milazzo, M. (August 16, 2020). "Peculiar Picture Show: F*ck You, Christina". Peculiarpicture.show.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Jonny Van Luven. "Analysis of the Portrayal of Borderline Personality Disorder in Fatal Attraction" (PDF). Loyola Marymount University. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "Three BPD sufferers break the myths around borderline personality disorder". April 5, 2018.
- ^ a b Lisabeth Ann Bylina (2012). "A CINEMA OF FATAL ATTRACTIONS : VIEWING GENRE THROUGH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER" (PDF). Colorado State University. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "Everything You Forgot About Girl, Interrupted and Why the Story Remains So Vital". E! Online. 21 December 2019. Retrieved March 31, 2021.
- ^ "Borderline Personality Disorder in the Movies". Psychology Today.
- ^ Glenn Sullivan. "The Psychopathology of 'Silver Linings Playbook'". Psychology Today.
- ^ Scott, A. O. (April 30, 2015). "Review: Kristen Wiig as a Troubled Lottery Winner in 'Welcome to Me'". Nytimes.com.
- ^ "PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts". Psyartjournal.com.
- ^ "Edward Norton Recalls Richard Gere Fighting For Primal Fear's Ending". cinemablend.
- ^ "Dissociative Identity Disorder in M. Night Shyamalan's Split Fact vs Fiction (Contains Spoilers)". Psi Chi.
- ^ The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse: A Chronicle of Medical Mysteries by Nancy Butcher
- ^ Evelyn B. Kelly (2015). The 101 Most Unusual Diseases and Disorders. ABC-CLIO. pp. 83–84. ISBN 978-1-61069-676-0.
- ^ "Skeptical Cinema: 'Bug' and folie à deux". CFI Center for Inquiry. 2013. Retrieved June 9, 2017.
- ^ "Cahiers du Coco: Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
- ^ Moosa, Fatima (October 16, 2020). "A list: Good examples of mental health representation in pop culture". The Daily Vox. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
- ^ "Portrayal of PTSD: Tony Stark in Iron Man 3". Time To Change. June 27, 2013.
- ^ Footrin, Ralph (1991). "Terminator 2, Judgment Day" (PDF). Psychiatric Bulletin. 15 (12): 796–797. doi:10.1192/pb.15.12.796.
- ^ a b c "Mental health check for Lord of the Rings character". UCL News. December 17, 2004.
- ^ "A Psychoanalytic Look at Lars and the Real Girl". The Jung Page. October 27, 2013.
- ^ Francine R. Goldberg (2013). Schizophrenia: A Case Study of the Movie a Beautiful Mind – Second Edition. eBookIt. ISBN 978-1-934107-12-6.
- ^ Gregory, B. and, Milazzo, M. (August 16, 2020). "Peculiar Picture Show: Donnie Darko: We Still Don't Really Know What It's About". Peculiarpicture.show.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Crepaz-Keay, David (March 27, 2015). "Why is schizophrenia portrayed so negatively on screen?". The Guardian.
- ^ "'Words on Bathroom Walls' is an optimistic film about living with schizophrenia". National Catholic Reporter. 2020-08-22. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
- ^ Dourif, Brad (March 24, 2010). "'Dourif discusses acting career'". Yale Daily News.
- ^ Firth, Colin (January 9, 2011). "'Colin Firth: 'Playing the stammering king had an effect on me, a semi-paralysis'". The Guardian.
- ^ Rubin, Rebecca (September 20, 2017). "'It' Star Jaeden Lieberher on Deleted Scene, Sequel Plans and Perfecting His Stutter". Variety.
- ^ 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): 1047–53. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4. PMID 17382831. S2CID 5903121.
- ^ Gregory, B. and, Milazzo, M. (August 16, 2020). "Peculiar Picture Show: Huge on Addiction, Abuse, and Other Metaphors". Peculiarpicture.show.
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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. Movies and Mental Illness – Hogrefe Publishing
- 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.