Mental disorders in film

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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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Avoidant personality disorder

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Bipolar disorder

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Conduct disorder

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

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Dementia

Alzheimer's disease

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Depression

Dysthymia

• American Splendor - 2003
• Revolutionary Road - 2008

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Dissociative identity disorder

Previously called "multiple personality disorder".

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Eating disorders

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Factitious disorder

• The Night Listener (film) - 2006

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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

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Histrionic personality disorder

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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

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Paranoid personality disorder

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

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Pedophilia

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Personality disorder not otherwise specified

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

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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

Sadistic personality disorder

• Martha - 1974 Helmut Salomn, Karlheinz Böhm
• The Green Mile - 1999 Percy Wetmore, Doug Hutchinson
• Speed - 1994 Howard Payne, Dennis Hopper
• American Horror Story - 2011 Dr. Arthur Arden/Hans Gruper, James Cromwell

Schizoaffective disorder

• Shine - 1996
• Side Effects - 2013 (NOTE: Film does not accurately portray schizoaffective disorder as a majority of those diagnosed are more prone to being swindled by scammers than perpetrating violence toward other people).
• 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

See also

• Mental illness in fiction

Notes

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.

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