General

• Brain Story (2000)
• Secret Life of the Brain, The (2001)

Abuse

• Mystic River (2003)
• This Boy’s Life (1993)

Addiction

• Clean and Sober (1988)
• Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
• Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
• Permanent Midnight (1998)
• Requiem for a Dream (2008)
• Trainspotting (1996)
• When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)

Depression

• Harold and Maude (1971)
• Ordinary People (1980)
• Hours, The (2002)

Dissociative Identity Disorder / Multiple Personal Disorder

• Color of Night (2002)
• Identity (2003)
• Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
• Primal Fear (1996)
• Sybil (1976)
• Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)
• United States of Tara (2009)

Dreams

• What Are Dreams? (2009)

Encephalitis lethargica

• Awakenings (1990)

Family Dysfunction

• Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001)
• Squid and the Whale, The (2005)
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

Memory

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Memento (2000)

Mental Retardation

• Sling Blade (1996)

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• As Good as It Gets (1997)
• Matchstick Men (2003)

Parkinson’s

• Case of the Frozen Addict, The (1986)
  In July 1982, a 42-year-old addict in a San Jose, California jail became paralyzed—unable to move or talk. His symptoms, caused by a bad batch of synthetic heroin, were indistinguishable from those associated with Parkinson’s disease, a degenerative nerve disorder that strikes the elderly. NOVA traces the story of a “designer” drug which could lead to a major medical breakthrough.

Personality Disorders

• Good Will Hunting (1999)
• Heavenly Creatures (1994)
• Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Taxi Driver (1976)

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Deer Hunter, The (1978)
• Fearless (1993)

Psychiatric Hospitals

• Bedlam (1946)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
• Quills (2000)

Psychotherapy

• In Treatment (2008)

Race

• Crash (2004)
• Soldier’s Story (1984)

Schizophrenia

• Angel Baby (1995)
• Beautiful Mind, A (2001)
• Color of Night (2002)
• Shine (1996)
• Spider (2002)

Sexuality

• Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
• Crying Game, The (1992)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Kinsey (2004)
• Truth About Female Desire, The (2005)
• Woodsman, The (2004)