MENTAL HEALTH REPRESENTATION IN THE MEDIA

TELEVISION + CINEMA MEDIA

AGORAPHOBIA

  • The Aviator - 2004

  • Sparrows Dance - 2012

  • What About Bob? - 1991

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

  • Still Alice - 2014

AMNESIA

ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA - the inability to form new memories

  • Memento - 2000
  • Finding Nemo - 2003
  • 50 First Dates - 2004
  • The Lookout - 2007
  • Finding Dory - 2016

LACUNAR AMNESIA - loss of memory about one specific event

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004

  • Mysterious Skin - 2004

  • Trance - 2013

  • Spider-Man 3 - 2007

PSYCHOGENIC AMNESIA - (aka dissociative amnesia) memory loss caused by psychological stress

  • The Machinist - 2004

  • Shutter Island - 2010

RETROGRADE AMNESIA - a person forgets part or all of their past

  • The Muppets Take Manhattan - 1984

  • The Addams Family - 1991

  • Anastasia - 1997

  • Spider-Man 3 - 2007

  • Rumba - 2008

  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 2014

  • Furious 7 - 2015

  • Captain America: Civil War - 2016

  • Finding Dory - 2016

  • Captain Marvel - 2019

ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER (includes psychopathy + sociopathy)

  • Rope - 1948

  • Goodfellas - 1990

  • The Silence of the Lambs - 1991

  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 2000

  • No Country for Old Men - 2007

  • The Dark Knight - 2008

  • We Need to Talk About Kevin - 2011

  • Nightcrawler - 2014

  • The Invisible Man - 2020

ANXIETY

  • What About Bob? - 1991

  • Melancholia - 2012

  • Frozen - 2013

ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER

  • Juno - 2007

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER (includes Asperger's syndrome, Savant syndrome, and prosopagnosia)

  • Rain Man − 1988

  • After Thomas - 2006

  • Mary & Max - 2009

  • Temple Grandin (film) - 2010

  • Atypical - 2017

BIPOLAR DISORDER

  • Silver Lining Playbook (2012)

  • Touched with Fire (2016)

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (aka Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder)

  • Misery - 1990

  • Girl, Interrupted - 1999

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004

  • Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith - 2005

  • Wreck-It Ralph - 2012

  • Silver Linings Playbook - 2012

  • Ralph Breaks the Internet - 2018

CATATONIA - a significant decrease in someone's reactivity to their environment

  • Awakenings - 1990

CONDUCT DISORDER - repetitive and persistent pattern of behaviour in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate norms are violated

  • The Good Son (1993)

CONVERSION DISORDER (used to be referred to as hysteria) - a person experiences blindness, paralysis, or other symptoms affecting the nervous system that cannot be explained solely by a physical illness or injury

  • Tommy (1975 film) - 1975

DEMENTIA

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

  • The Notebook - 2004

  • Away From Her - 2006

  • Still Alice - 2014

  • Logan - 2017

  • Coco - 2017

PARKINSON'S DISEASE

  • Love & Other Drugs - 2010

DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER (aka Multiple Personality Disorder or Split Personality)

  • What About Bob - 1991

  • School of Rock - 2003

  • Arrested Development - 2003

DEPRESSION

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - 2004

  • Perks of Being a Wallflower - 2012

  • Melancholia - 2012

  • Frozen - 2013

  • The Skeleton Twins - 2014

  • Inside Out - 2015

DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER

  • Spider-Man - 2002

  • A Tale of Two Sisters - 2003

  • Hulk - 2003

  • The Machinist - 2004

  • Black Swan - 2010

  • Shutter Island - 2010

  • Dream House - 2011

  • Sucker Punch - 2011

  • Birdman - 2014

  • Split - 2016

  • Glass - 2019

EATING DISORDERS

  • Life Is Sweet - 1990

  • The Devil Wears Prada - 2006

  • Gossip Girl - 2007

  • Drag Me to Hell - 2009

  • Black Swan - 2010

  • Pretty Little Liars - 2010

  • The Road Within - 2015

  • To the Bone - 2017

  • Feed - 2017

FOLIE A DEUX (also referred to as shared psychotic disorder and induced delusional disorder)

  • Heavenly Creatures - 1994

  • Dead Ringers - 1998

  • Bug - 2006

HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY

  • Zoolander - 2001

KLEPTOMANIA

  • Marnie - 1964

  • Trapped In Paradise - 1994

  • Maid In Manhattan - 2002

MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY

  • A Child's Cry for Help - 1994

  • Phantom Thread - 2017

NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER

  • Citizen Kane - 1941

  • Wall Street (1987 film)

  • A Few Good Men - 1992

  • Once Were Warriors - 1994

  • It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - 2005

  • Breaking Bad - 2008

  • American Horror Story - 2011

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER

  • What About Bob? - 1991

  • As Good As It Gets - 1997

  • The Aviator - 2004

  • Silver Linings Playbook - 2012

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER

  • Sleeping with the Enemy - 1991

  • The Big Band Theory - 2007

PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER

  • Escobar: Paradise Lost - 2014

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER

  • Father Goose - 1964

PEDOPHILIA

  • M - 1931

  • Germany, Year Zero - 1948

  • Lolita - 1962

  • Tommy - 1975

  • Pretty Baby - 1978

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street - 1984

  • The Color Purple - 1985

  • Sleepers - 1996

  • Bastard Out of Carolina - 1996

  • Happiness - 1998

  • Donnie Darko - 2001

  • Antwone Fisher - 2002

  • Kill Bill Volume 1 - 2003

  • The Woodsman -2004

  • Mysterious Skin - 2004

  • Calvary - 2014

  • Spotlight - 2015

POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

  • The Deer Hunter - 1978

  • Mystic River - 2003

  • The Hurt Locker - 2009

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 2012

  • Iron Man 3 - 2013

  • The Room - 2015

  • A Private War - 2018

  • I, Tonya - 2018

PSYCHOSIS

  • Black Swan - 2010

SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day - 1991

SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER

  • Through A Glass Darkly - 1961

  • The Remains of the Day - 1993

  • The English Patient - 1996

  • Batman

SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER

  • Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory - 1971

SCHIZOPHRENIA

  • Angel Baby 1995

  • A Beautiful Mind - 2001

  • Donnie Darko - 2001

  • The Soloist - 2009

  • Take Shelter - 2011

SELF-INJURY DISORDER

  • Girl Interrupted - 1999

  • Thirteen - 2003

  • The Wrestler - 2008

  • Black Swan - 2010

  • Young Adult - 2011

  • My Mad Fat Diary - 2013

  • Short Term 12 - 2013

  • Split - 2016

  • Sharp Objects - 2018

STUTTERING

  • Girl Shy - 1924

  • The Case of the Stuttering Pig - 1937

  • The Waterboy - 1999

  • The King's Speech - 2010

  • IT - 2017

  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - 2019

SUBSTANCE/MEDICATION-INDUCED PSYCHOTIC and SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER

  • The Lost Weekend - 1945

  • Clean & Sober - 1988

  • My Name is Bill W - 1989

  • Basketball Diaries - 1995

  • Trainspotting - 1996

  • Gia - 1998

  • Traffic - 2000

  • 28 Days - 2000

  • Requiem for a Dream - 2000

  • Thirteen - 2003

  • Half Nelson - 2006

  • Rachel Getting Married - 2008

  • The Shift - 2009

  • Flight - 2012

  • Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery - 2012

  • Smashed - 2012

  • The Anonymous People - 2013

  • Krisha - 2016

  • Phantom Thread - 2017

  • Manchester By The Sea - 2017

  • A Star Is Born - 2018

  • Ben is Back - 2018

  • Uncut Gems - 2019

  • Rocketman - 2019

  • Doctor Sleep - 2019

SOCIAL MEDIA

INSTAGRAM

  • The Latest Kate
  • Heidi Williams
  • Bianca L. Rodriguez
  • Joanna Konstantopoulou
  • Sara-Jayne Poletti
  • Christina Wolfgram
  • Anxiety Sugar
  • That Sappy Writer
  • Beth Brawley
  • Jera Foster-Fell
  • Marcela Sabiá
  • Kate Speer
  • Miss Calathea
  • Kelsey Lindell
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