| | Friday, December 28, 2007 |
| Movie List - G, PG, or PG-13 |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| Awakenings | Favorite |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1990 | Rating: | PG-13 |
| Actors: | Robin Williams, Robert DeNiro, Julie Kavner |
| Topics: | Neuropsychology, Treatment |
| Wonderful movie. Based on Oliver Sacks' clinical cases. L-dopa's effects on encephalitis lethargica. |
| Interesting glimpse inside a mental hospital in the 1960s. Why do you think paranoia/psychosis |
| developed after prolonged L-dopa treatment? Neuronal supersensitivity? |
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