Friday, December 28, 2007
Movie List - Personality Disorders
All About Eve Favorite
Genre: Drama Year: 1950 Rating: NR-PG
Actors: Bette Davis, Ann Baxter, George Sanders
Topics: Personality Disorder, Marital Conflict
Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Writing and more. A
classic movie. Pay close attention to Eve through the film. Also, what about Margo? Realistic at
end? If she were in treatment in the midst of her turmoil, how would you have treated her?
An Angel at My Table Favorite
Genre: Drama Year: 1990 Rating: R
Actors: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson
Topics: Treatment, Personality Disorder, Depression
Autobiography of a New Zealand poet who was misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and spent 8 years
in a mental hospital. Disturbing portrayals of treatment at the time - ECT, start of leucotomies.
Consider her personality issues - Avoidant? Social Phobia? Another case where art, in this case
writing, allows her to tolerate the traumas of her life.
Anywhere But Here
Genre: Drama Year: 1999 Rating: PG-13
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Hart Bochner
Topics: Personality Disorder
I saw this film on an airplane - not outstanding, but I didn't take off my headphones! Susan
Sarandon portrays a mother "who knows best" with a teenage daughter "who knows better" as
they move from a small town to Beverly Hills. The mother clearly has a mixed personality picture
- histrionic, dependent, borderline?
As Good As It Gets Favorite
Genre: Drama/Comedy Year: 1997 Rating: PG-13
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Greg Kinnear, Helen Hunt
Topics: OCD, Personality Disorder
Academy Award winner for Best Actor and Best Actress. Jack Nicholson with Obsessive-
Compulsive Disorder, as well as plenty of Axis II. Really great movie.

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