Mental disorders in film

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.

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

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

Hypersexuality

Histrionic personality disorder

They Drive by Night - 1940

Intermittent explosive disorder

Malingering, Munchausen syndrome, factitious Disorder

Munchausen syndrome by proxy

Narcissistic personality disorder

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Paranoid personality disorder

Pedophilia

Personality disorder not otherwise specified

Pervasive Developmental Disorders

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[9]):'"

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".
  5. Sue
  6. Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite (My SO Has Depression)
  7. Light, Alan (May 29, 2015). "In _éïLove & Mercy,_éì Brian Wilson Is Portrayed by John Cusack and Paul Dano". The New York Times.
  8. 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.

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