| | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| Movie List - Psychotic Disorders |
| Agnes of God |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1985 | Rating: | PG-13 |
| Actors: | Jane Fonda, Meg Tilly, Anne Bancroft |
| Topics: | Treatment, Psychosis, Forensic |
| Meg Tilly as a novice nun who became pregnant and the baby is found strangled in the cloistered |
| convent. Jane Fonda as the psychiatrist appointed to determine if Tilly is mentally competent to |
| stand trial.[Suggested by Nell Stewart] |
| Angel Baby |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1995 | Rating: | R |
| Actors: | John Lynch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Colin Friels |
| Topics: | Treatment, Schizophrenia |
| An Australian film about two schizophrenics who fall in love at group therapy. Everything is fine |
| until they decide to stop taking their medications and she becomes pregnant. [Suggested by |
| Tammy Schneider, Champaign, IL] |
| Arsenic and Old Lace |
| Genre: | Comedy | Year: | 1944 | Rating: | NR-PG-13 |
| Actors: | Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair |
| Topics: | Psychosis |
| Classic movie with Cary Grant discovering his aunts poison gentleman visitors and his brother |
| thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill. [Suggested by Darlene Puck, Cincinnati, |
| OH] |
| Aviator, The | Favorite |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 2005 | Rating: | R |
| Actors: | Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale |
| Topics: | OCD, Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective |
| Academy Award winner for Best Supporting actress and other accomplishments (cinematography, |
| etc.). Excellent movie. There is much room for diagnosis debate - clear OCD symptoms early on, |
| but what about paranoia? Manic-type symptoms? Personality considerations? Be sure to also watch |
| the special features segment on OCD. |
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