Great Psychology Movies


One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (internet reader recommendation)
Abnormal Psychology

Donnie Darko (internet reader recommendation)
Abnormal Psychology

Benny and Joon (internet reader recommendation)
Abnormal Psychology

Identity (internet reader recommendation)
Psych disorders

The Cell (internet reader recommendation)
Futuristic therapy

Running With Scissors (internet reader recommendation)
Psych disorders, unethical therapy

Lars and the Real Girl (internet reader recommendation)
Delusional disorder

Little Miss Sunshine (internet reader recommendation)
Psych disorders

The Long Kiss Goodnight (internet reader recommendation)
DID

Reign on Me
PTSD

Silence of the Lambs (student recommendation)
Psychological disorders

Copycat
Psychological disorders

Awakenings (internet reader recommendation)

Rainman (internet reader recommendation)
Autism

American Psycho (internet reader recommendation)

A Clockwork Orange (internet reader recommendation)

Dexter (series on Showtime)
Antisocial Personality Disorder

Train-Man (internet reader recommendation)
Social anxiety disorder

The Butterfly Effect (internet reader recommendation)

Primal Fear (internet reader recommendation)
Psych disorders

12 Angry Men
Social psychological concepts

As Good As it Gets (student recommendation)
OCD

Passion of Mind (student recommendation)
Dissociative Identity Disorder

Control (student recommendation)
Antisocial Personality Disorder, experimentation

K-Pax (internet reader recommendation)
Psych disorders

Memento (internet reader recommendation)
Memory

A Beautiful Mind (student recommendation)
Schizophrenia

Mr. Jones
Bi-Polar disorder

Girl, Interrupted
Psych disorders

Spun
Drug Addiction

Iris
Alzheimer’s disease

Fight Club
Psych disorders

About Schmidt
Issues faced in older adulthood

Secretary
Sadomasochism

Crash (student recommendation)
Attitudes, prejudice, discrimination

Touching the Void
Theories of motivation

Normal
Gender Identity Disorder

Matchstick Men (student recommendation)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder

The Aviator  (student recommendation)
Psych disorders
                                         
Rosemary’s Baby (student recommendation)
Good illustration of persuasive techniques

Seven (student recommendation)
Psychological disorders

15 Minutes (student recommendation)
Provides examples of media influence

Hollywood’s Portrayal of Psychopathology: Movies for Psychology Students”

Punch-Drunk Love (student recommendation)

The Manchurian Candidate (original 1962 version)
Hypnosis, classical conditioning

The Experiment (student recommendation)
Based loosely on Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Study

Spider
Psych disorders

American History X (student recommendation)
Prejudice, discrimination, attitudes

The Ted Bundy Story (student recommendation)
Antisocial personality disorder

Heavenly Creatures
Shared psychosis

Thirteen
Issues of adolescence

Capturing the Friedmans (student recommendation)
Pedophilia

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