If you’re interested in Psychology & Movies, this is the post for you!
I am sharing this amazing piece of work from an unknown author. Hope you enjoy it :) The following is a list of FILMS and the topics they may pertain to for the demonstration of psychological topics, themes, disorders and/or the characterization of the mental health worker and/or facilities. 12 Angry Men: eyewitness accounts; memory; projection 12 Monkeys: disorganized schizophrenia 28 Days: alcoholism 50 First Dates: short-term memory; head trauma A Beautiful Mind: paranoid schizophrenia A Clockwork Orange: behavior modification; sociopath Affliction: alcoholism American Psycho: sociopath; narcissistic and/or antisocial personality disorder Apocalypse Now: stress; post-traumatic stress disorder; "madness" Analyze This: psychotherapy An Angel at My Table: madness Arachnophobia: arachnophobia (fear of spiders) As Good As It Gets: obsessive-compulsive disorder Awakenings: medication intervention; catatonic states Basketball Diaries: heroin addiction Beaches: histrionic personality Benny and Joon: paranoid schizophrenia Bell Jar: mental breakdown Bill: mental retardation Boys Don't Cry: gender identity; homophobia Breakfast Club: adolescence; identity Cape Fear: antisocial personality disorder; sociopath The Cell: sleep and dreams; consciousness Charly: mental retardation Clean and Sober: alcoholism Coming Home: post-traumatic stress disorder Copycat: agoraphobia; sociopathic personality Crumb: schizoid personality disorder; schizophrenia Dominick and Eugene: mental retardation Dream Team: mental institution portrayal Drugstore Cowboy: drug addiction Fly Away Home: imprinting Folks: Alzheimer's Frances: institutionalization; lobotomy French Kiss: aerophobia (fear of flying) Freud: psychoanalysis Girl, Interrupted: borderline personality disorder; depression; suicide Good Will Hunting: conduct disorder; patient-therapist interaction High Anxiety: acrophobia (fear of heights) I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: schizophrenia In Cold Blood: sociopaths Inception: dreams, perceptions Jacob's Ladder: post-traumatic stress disorder; drug addiction Lars and the Real Girl: delusions Leaving Las Vegas: alcoholism Matchstick Men: obsessive-compulsive disorder; agoraphobia Memento: short-term memory loss; head trauma Mr. Jones: bipolar disorder (manic/depression) Nell: language acquisition Nuts: psychological disturbance One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: intitutionalization; electroshock therapy; depression Ordinary People: depression; suicide; therapy Overboard: amnesia/fugue The Other Sister: mental retardation Postcards From the Edge: drug and alcohol addiction Primal Fear: dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder) Prince of Tides: therapy; repressed memories Rain Man: autism Requiem for a Dream: prescription and illicit drug addiction Seven: sociopath; narcissistic and/or antisocial personality disorder Silence of the Lambs: sociopath The Sixth Sense: child therapist The Snake Pit: institutionalization; mental breakdown Sommersby: amnesia; fugue; post-traumatic stress disorder Sybil: dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder) Trading Places: nature vs. nurture Trainspotting: heroin addiction Tuesdays with Morrie: bereavement, developmental stages, death Unstrung Heroes: obsessive-compulsive disorder Vertigo: anxiety disorders What About Bob?: obsessive-compulsive disorder; portrayal of therapist and patient What Dreams May Come: consciousness; death; bereavement; depression When a Man Loves a Woman: alcoholism; co-dependency