My brother recently finished his required medical school rotations in his third year of medical school at NYU. His most recent rotation was in the Psych ward and as we are both movie fanatics, we began to discuss different movies and the various symptoms/diagnoses that were incorporated into the films. The list we compiled is below. Feel free to comment and add some more of your own

General psych ward stuff

1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

2. It’s Kind of a Funny Thing

3. Girl, Interrupted

PTSD

1. Reign Over Me

2. Waltz with Bashir

3. Martha Marcy May Marlene

Anxiety

1. Perks of Being a Wallflower (peds psych)

Autism Spectrum

1. Rain Man

2. Adam (asperger’s)

3. Temple Grandin

4. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

Clinical depression

1. Side Effects

Delusional disorder

1. Sunset Boulevard

2. Misery

3. Lars and the Real Girl

Dementia (neither are specifically about dementia, rather there is a character with dementia)

1. The Notebook

2. A Separation

Dissociative Disorders

1. Psycho

2. Fight club

3. Primal Fear

OCD

1. As Good as it Gets

2. The Aviator

Schizophrenia

1. A Beautiful Mind

2. Donnie Darko

Substance use disorder

1. Requiem for a Dream

2. Trainspotting