Mental disorders in film


Many films have portrayed mental disorders or have 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. For instance, though 50 First Dates presents a case of anterograde amnesia, the type depicted does not actually exist. Also, of the "mental disorders" listed below, "catatonia", "sadistic personality disorder", and "self-injury"—while referring to a medical sign or a harmful behavior—are not mental disorders recognized in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.


Owing to the nature of drama, extreme and florid manifestations of a given disorder tend to prevail over the more subtle manifestations typical of an average case. For example, persons with agoraphobia are generally portrayed in drama as recluses who never, or hardly ever, venture from their homes; in reality, this is rare and extreme, not typical of agoraphobes.

Agoraphobia

Amnesia

Anterograde amnesia

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

Lacunar amnesia

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

Psychogenic amnesia

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

Retrograde amnesia

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

Antisocial personality disorder

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

Autism

(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

Borderline Personality Disorder

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

Catatonia

Conduct disorder

Conversion Disorder

(Conversion Disorder used to be referred to as Hysteria)

Dementia

Alzheimer's disease

Parkinson's disease

Dependent personality disorder

Dissociative identity disorder

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

Eating disorders

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."

Kleptomania

  • Häxan[40]
  • Marnie – 1964
  • Maid In Manhattan – 2002 character of Marisa Ventura played by Jennifer Lopez
  • Trapped in Paradise – 1994 character of Alvin Firpo played by Dana Carvey

Munchausen syndrome by proxy

Narcissistic personality disorder

Obsessive–compulsive disorder

Obsessive–compulsive personality disorder

Paranoid personality disorder

Passive–aggressive personality disorder

Pedophilia

Posttraumatic stress disorder

Pyromania

Schizoaffective disorder

Schizoid personality disorder

Schizophrenia

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

Self-injury

Stuttering

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

Substance/Medication-Induced Psychotic Disorder

Substance use disorders

"Drugs listed from most addictive, harmful or destructive to least (from most to least dangerous, based on a 2007 scientific research study."[53]

See also

Notes

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References

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  • 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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