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Cinema Education - Schizotypal Personality Disorder. Personality Disorder Movies & Videos. Movies Portraying Personality Disorders Personality Disorders exist wherever people live and are part of our culture. It should come as no surprise that many popular characters in movies and fiction portray some of the characteristic behaviors of people with personality disorders. Paranoid Personality Disorder - Home.wmv.

List of films featuring mental illness. Many films have portrayed mental disorders or used it as a backdrop for other themes.

List of films featuring mental illness

Here is a list of some of these films, sorted by disorder, regardless of whether the disorder is portrayed accurately or not. For example, although 50 First Dates presents a case of anterograde amnesia, the type depicted does not really exist. In particular, owing to the nature of drama, extreme and florid manifestations of any given disorder tend to prevail over the more subtle ones typical of the average person with that disorder. For example, people with agoraphobia are typically portrayed in drama as recluses who never or almost never leave their homes; in reality, this is rare and extreme, not typical, among the agoraphobic population. Amnesia[edit] Personality Disorders in the Movies - 1 - Paranoid Personality Disorder - The Caine Mutiny. DSM IV. The Fourth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM IV is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States. It used for patient diagnosis and treatment, and is important for collecting and communicating accurate public health statistics.

The DSM consists of three major components: the diagnostic classification, the diagnostic criteria sets, and the descriptive text. The Multiaxial System of Diagnosis in DSM IV Criteria. Psychology: Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior.