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Mental disorders in film

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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[edit]

Amnesia[edit]

Anterograde amnesia[edit]

A person with anterograde amnesia is unable to form new memories.

Lacunar amnesia[edit]

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

Psychogenic amnesia[edit]

"Psychogenic amnesia, also known as dissociative amnesia, is memory loss caused by psychological stress."

Retrograde amnesia[edit]

A much-used plot device, retrograde amnesia occurs when a person forgets part or all of his or her past.

Antisocial personality disorder[edit]

(Antisocial Personality Disorder should also include psychopathy and sociopathy.)

Autism[edit]

(Autism is also known as Autism Spectrum Disorder and in the past has had a subtype called Aspergers Syndrome. The spectrum can overlap with Savant syndrome and Prosopagnosia.)

Bipolar Disorder[edit]

Borderline Personality Disorder[edit]

(Borderline Personality Disorder is also known as Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder)

Catatonia[edit]

Conduct disorder[edit]

Conversion Disorder[edit]

(Conversion Disorder used to be referred to as Hysteria)

Dementia[edit]

Alzheimer's disease[edit]

Parkinson's disease[edit]

Dependent personality disorder[edit]

Dissociative identity disorder[edit]

(Dissociative identity disorder has also been known as Multiple Personality Disorder or Split Personality. Not to be confused with schizophrenia)

Eating disorders[edit]

Folie à deux[edit]

"Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (F24) in the ICD-10."

Kleptomania[edit]

Munchausen syndrome by proxy[edit]

Narcissistic personality disorder[edit]

Obsessive–compulsive disorder[edit]

Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder[edit]

Paranoid personality disorder[edit]

Passive–aggressive personality disorder[edit]

Pedophilia[edit]

Posttraumatic stress disorder[edit]

Pyromania[edit]

Schizoaffective disorder[edit]

Schizoid personality disorder[edit]

Schizophrenia[edit]

(Schizophrenia including Paranoid Schizophrenia. Not to be confused with Dissociative Identity Disorder)

Self-injury[edit]

Stuttering[edit]

"Also known as Stammering or Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder."

Substance/Medication-Induced Psychotic Disorder[edit]

Substance use disorders[edit]

"Drugs listed from most addictive, harmful or destructive to least (from most to least dangerous, based on a 2007 scientific research study."[47]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

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  4. "Sparrows Dance" – via www.imdb.com.
  5. "Intruders" – via www.imdb.com.
  6. Lou Leminick. "Gyllenhaal stuns as a sociopathic TV cameraman in 'Nightcrawler'". New York Post.
  7. Jake Coyle. "Film Review: 'Invisible Man' is a cunning if empty remake". Washington Times.
  8. Knights, Karl (December 17, 2018). "Rain Man made autistic people visible. But it also entrenched a myth | Karl Knights" – via www.theguardian.com.
  9. Autism and Representation edited by Mark Osteen, Autism in Film by Baker
  10. "Mercury Rising" – via www.imdb.com.
  11. "Snow Cake" – via www.imdb.com.
  12. "After Thomas" – via www.imdb.com.
  13. "Ben X" – via www.imdb.com.
  14. "Adam" – via www.imdb.com.
  15. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0978762/1
  16. "Temple Grandin" – via www.imdb.com.
  17. "Jane Wants a Boyfriend" – via www.imdb.com.
  18. "Atypical" – via www.imdb.com.
  19. "Touched with Fire" – via www.imdb.com.
  20. Dupre, Aimee (December 16, 2008). "Aimee DuPre's Journal: THE BORDERLINE PERSONALITY".
  21. http://web.csulb.edu/~017403319/abnormal-paper-final.pdf
  22. "Three BPD sufferers break the myths around borderline personality disorder". April 5, 2018.
  23. 23.0 23.1 https://mountainscholar.org/bitstream/handle/10217/68095/Bylina_colostate_0053N_11254.pdf
  24. https://www.eonline.com/uk/news/1105085/everything-you-forgot-about-girl-interrupted-and-why-the-story-remains-so-vital
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 "10 Movies That Got Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms (Mostly) Right".
  26. Glenn Sullivan. "The Psychopathology of 'Silver Linings Playbook'". Psychology Today.
  27. Scott, A. O. (April 30, 2015). "Review: Kristen Wiig as a Troubled Lottery Winner in 'Welcome to Me'" – via NYTimes.com.
  28. "6 TV Shows That Got Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms (Mostly) Right".
  29. https://themighty.com/2017/11/movies-borderline-personality-disorder- bpd/
  30. "Awakenings" – via www.imdb.com.
  31. "PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts". psyartjournal.com.
  32. "Love & Other Drugs" – via www.imdb.com.
  33. The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse: A Chronicle of Medical Mysteries by Nancy Butcher
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  36. "Cahiers du Coco: Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages". Nashville Scene. Retrieved 2019-08-22.
  37. "Monk" – via www.imdb.com.
  38. "Don't Say a Word" – via www.imdb.com.
  39. "Portrayal of PTSD: Tony Stark in Iron Man 3". Time To Change. June 27, 2013.
  40. https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/20B07492752F4A10A69EC78FAC303EC6/S095560360011342Xa.pdf/terminator_2_judgment_day.pdf
  41. "Schizoid Personality, Kazuo Ishiguro & The Remains of the Day". December 31, 2014.
  42. 42.0 42.1 42.2 "Mental health check for Lord of the Rings character". UCL News. December 17, 2004.
  43. Francine R. Goldberg (2013). Schizophrenia: A Case Study of the Movie a Beautiful Mind – Second Edition. eBookIt. ISBN 978-1-934107-12-6. Search this book on
  44. Crepaz-Keay, David (March 27, 2015). "Why is schizophrenia portrayed so negatively on screen?" – via www.theguardian.com.
  45. "The King's Speech" – via www.imdb.com.
  46. Rubin, Rebecca; Rubin, Rebecca (September 20, 2017). "'It' Star Jaeden Lieberher on Deleted Scene, Sequel Plans and Perfecting His Stutter".
  47. 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.

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