| | Sunday, June 24, 2007 |
| Movie List - Treatment and Ethical Issues |
| Abre los ojos ("Open Your Eyes") |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1997 | Rating: | R |
| Actors: | Eduardo Noriega, Penelope Cruz, Cheta Lera |
| Topics: | Treatment, Trauma |
| Spanish film told in retrospect as an imprisoned man, whose face is horribly disfigured, tells his |
| story to a psychiatrist. How's his reality testing? Remade as Vanilla Sky; see this original. |
| [Suggested by Erin Gustin, University of Southeastern Indiana] |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| Analyze This | Favorite |
| Genre: | Comedy | Year: | 1999 | Rating: | R |
| Actors: | Robert DeNiro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow |
| Topics: | Treatment, Anxiety Disorder |
| I really liked this movie. The portrayal of mixed anxiety and depression (delayed onset PTSD?) is |
| terrific. Unfortunately, the movie also demonstrates how not to be an ethical psychiatrist (can you |
| count the number of ways that he violates confidentiality?), but he still is effective (if you believe |
| in the therapeutic miracle of sudden insight). The best character in the movie is the loyal goon, |
| Jelly. He was great. See this one. |
| 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] |
| Antwone Fisher | Favorite |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 2002 | Rating: | R |
| Actors: | Denzel Washington, Derek Luke, Joy Bryant |
| Topics: | Treatment, Childhood Disorder |
| Excellent film. Military psychiatrist treats navyman with apparent impulse control problems, as well |
| as other underlying issues. Based on a true story. Lots of material to analyze - ethical issues in |
| treatment? Influence of childhood traumas? Magical cure at end? |
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