Psychiatry Movies

A tour of the Swedish mental health history, via early psychiatry, lobotomy to the outpatient care of today. Caregivers, patients, doctors and...

One in five Americans is taking a psychiatric drug, including millions of children. Pharmaceutical companies have over-hyped the benefits of these...

‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and their carers, along with input from...

Depicts a doctor looking into his patient's brain and seeing a collection of hideous and grotesque figures.

One of the patients in a group-therapy session conducted by a famous psychiatrist is a murderer.

A psychiatrist and his patient discuss their relationship in a snow-covered field.

Sarah disguises herself as Ryan's psychiatrist to haunt his dreams while also presenting a helpful educational guide to therapy.

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and...

"Evocação de Barahona Fernandes" is a short documentary directed by José Barahona, focusing on his grandfather, the esteemed...

An experimental vertical short-form fairytale about the Mouse Princess and the traps she has been in.

Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to...

A homeless man with schizophrenia slowly embraces antipsychotic medication under Hawaii's only willing psychiatrist and a court mandate, while a man...

A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity, Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing...

A solo show whose subject - the controversial Scottish psychiatrist Ronald David Laing - has largely faded from public view, starring an actor who...

Formerly known as ‘multiple personality disorder’, dissociative identity disorder, the most common cause of which is severe childhood...

Kren's second film and the first he cut according to a strictly serial, sequence technique: in various frame sizes, the 48 portraits from the Szondi...

An actual patient, Gloria Szymanski, allowed herself to be filmed while engaged in therapy with three different therapists, distinguished by their...

Lucy, a young woman comes back to her hometown to celebrate her newly appointed doctor of Psychiatry. Friends and old love finds her back, however...