I Remember Mama

Lars tells his son Nels to go to the drugstore to buy some chloroform with which to euthanize sister Dagmar's seriously injured pet cat, Uncle Elizabeth. (1:08)

Nels places the bottle of chloroform on the table. (1:12)

Marta tells her sister Jenny, "I have to chloroform a cat." (1:15)

Uncle Chris dies. (1:13)

Jenny referring to Chris, says the "wicked old man died of the DT's." (1:47)

Bereavement | delirium tremens | inhalant

Read the Kathryn Forbes book that inspired the movie:

The Boy Who Could Fly

Mother Charlene sheds tears over the loss of her husband Donald. (0:08)

High school student Milly's brother Louis buries his toy soldier Duke after, "A sniper got him." (0:15)

High school student Milly tells her mother Charlene about neighbor Eric, "They think he's autistic... He's never spoken a word in his life and he doesn't like to be around people. There's some institute that wants to take him away... When Eric was five years old, his parents went on a trip to Spain or France or someplace like that. The plane crashed, and his parents died... Eric... started to pretend to fly. It's like somehow he knew that his parents were about to crash. The way he figured he could save them was by being an airplane. He's been one ever since." (0:17)

Uniformed attendants escort Eric, restrained in a camisole, from a car to his bedroom. Ms. Sherman (?) orders them, "Take that damned straight jacket off him." (0:19)

Eric turns away when Milly addresses him. (0:22)

Eric shows Milly a picture of him with his parents. (0:29)

Uncle Hugo asks Milly, "Are you calling me a drunk?... It's more polite to be called a drunk than a mad man..." (0:31)

Geneva tells Milly, "You can't be in love with a retard." (0:36)

Eric and Milly mimic each others actions. (0:38)

Erica sheds tears as she watches a home movie of her deceased father. (0:54)

In the hospital after she is injured in a fall, psychiatrist Dr. Granada (Remember her as nurse Ratched in Cuckoo's Nest?) approaches Milly who asks, "What are you, a shrink?" Dr. Granada responds, "Let me be the judge of whether you're wacko or not." She goes on to say she understands Milly's father "committed suicide not long ago." Milly tells her after he was diagnosed with cancer in order to keep the family from suffering he "went away." (1:06)

Eric and what appears to be a psychiatric ward. (1:15)

Panorama of burial sites for Louis's toy soldiers. (1:18)

Louis tells Milly, "Dad quit." (1:22)

Eric speaks. (1:34)

Dr. Karyn Siegel on television speculates, "The children in an adolescent sexual frenzy somehow mesmerized the crowd." (1:39)

Autistic Disorder | Bereavement | camisole | echokinesis | mutism | psychiatric hospital | psychiatrist | suicide

The Parallax View

A spokesman for a committee of inquiry states that the killer, "acted entirely alone, motivated by... a psychotic desire for public recognition." (0:06)

Reporter Joe asks police officers, "Are you looking for dope?" (0:08)

Reporter Lee tells Joe, "I've never tried to kill myself successfully." She tells him she believes someone wants to kill her. (0:13)

Joe tells Lee, "He found out his wife was banging her psychiatrist." (0:16)

In the morgue a pathologist tells Joe, "There was enough alcohol and barbiturates in her bloodstream to kill her if she'd fallen asleep in bed, let alone at the wheel of a car... Face it. Some people want to die." (0:18)

Ex-FBI agent Will tells Joe, "Let's make him a weenie wagger... You look a little bit like a flasher." (0:21)

A research psychologist in his laboratory tells Joe (now posing as Harry) that questions on a psychological test we see entitled "Personality Inventory" are designed to "pull out anger, repression, frustration..." (0:38)

Joe tells recruiter Jack (?), "People say I've got antisocial tendencies." (0:53)

Joe undergoes testing at parallax. While he sits in a chair in a large room with his fingers on sensors a series of photographs flash on a screen accompanied by words and music. (0:54)

Jack (?) makes a reference to Joe about "antisocial people." (1:16)

A spokesman for another committee of inquiry states that killer "Frady was obsessed with the Carroll assassination." (1:38)

psychological testing | psychologist

The Brave One

Reluctantly venturing out of her apartment, assault victim Erica appears to react with increased fear to innocent strangers she encounters on the sidewalk, perhaps because of reminder of her assault. (0:23)

Erica visits the grave where her murdered fiancée David lies buried. (0:44)

Mugging victim Ethan and friends share a joint. (1:24)

Bereavement | joint | Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | startle response

Anatomy of a Murder

Attorney Paul interviews murder defendant Manion, "The newspapers say your wife volunteered to take a lie detector test." (0:18)

Manion tells Paul, "I must have been mad... I mean, I must have been crazy." (0:23)

Manion tells Paul, "I tried remembering. There were some pieces missing... don't remember anything else, not even going home... I remember hearing shots... seemed far away, like somebody else was doing the shooting."  (0:36)

Manion tells Paul, "I've got my defense now, right? Insanity." Paul tells Manion, "We're going to need a psychiatrist." (0:37)

Paul tells district attorney Mitch, "... a great big fat lie detector test on his wife has given proof to the rape story." Mitch tells Paul, "The results of a lie detector test isn't admissible evidence." (0:39)

Paul tells Manion's wife Laura, "You might be interested to know that your lie detector test turned out in your favor." (0:41)

Paul tells bartender Paquette after he offers him a drink, "I don't have the shakes yet." (0:45)

Paul tells Judge Weaver, "The defendant is in Detroit being examined by a psychiatrist... it was very urgent that we get the defendant to the psychiatrist." (1:00)

When Paul asks Manion about the psychiatrist's opinion, he replies, "I was temporarily insane... He said that when I shot Quill I was suffering from 'dissociative reaction.'... It means 'I had an irresistible impulse to shoot Quill.'" Paul asks Manion, "What did he say about your knowing the difference between right and wrong when you shot Quill?" (1:02)

Attorney Parnell asks Paul, "You ever heard of a Michigan court accepting 'irresistible impulse' as insanity?" (1:03)

Parnell reads to Paul from a law book, "People versus Durfee, 62, Michigan, 486, Year 1886." Paul finds it in his book and reads, "The right and wrong test, though condemned as being unscientific, is adhered to by most of the states, but... the fact that one accused of committing a crime may have been able to comprehend the nature and the consequences of this act and to know that it was wrong, nevertheless... if he was forced to its execution by an impulse... which he was powerless to control, he will be excused from punishment.' The Michigan Supreme Court did accept irresistible impulse, Parn. This is precedent..." (1:04)

Prosecutor Dancer tells Judge Weaver, "Since the defense plea is insanity the prosecution has retained a psychiatrist. Under the statute we have a right to petition for a mental examination of the defendant by our own doctor." (1:08)

Outside the courtroom Paul implores his secretary Maida, inquiring about Parnell's absence: "He hasn't fallen off the wagon..." Maida replies, "No. He was sober." (1:15)

Mitch introduces the "people's psychiatrist," Dr. Harcourt, to the court. (1:16)

Mitch tells the court, "The defendant's plea is one of insanity..." (1:24)

Mitch tells the court, "The burden is on the defense to prove temporary insanity at the time of the shooting. Now, if the reason for the alleged insanity is important to this case then that is a matter for a competent witness, an expert on the subject of the human mind. (1:31)

On the witness stand Manion tells the court, "I don't remember shooting him." (1:55)

On the witness stand Dancer cross-examines Manion: "Were you ever treated for shell shock, battle fatigue, or any war neurosis or psychosis? (1:58)

Parnell meets Dr. Smith, the defense psychiatrist, at the train (2:13)

Paul examines Dr. Smith on the witness stand: "Doctor, have you formed an opinion as to Frederick Manion's mental and emotional state at the time he killed Barney Quill?
Smith: "He was temporarily insane at the time of the shooting."
Paul: "At the time of the shooting did you believe that he was able to distinguish right from wrong?"
Smith: "He may or may not have been. It doesn't make too much difference."
Paul: "... will you explain Frederick Manion's temporary insanity?"
Smith: "It is known as dissociative reaction, a psychic shock which creates an almost overwhelming tension which the person in shock must alleviate."
Paul: "Is there another name for dissociative reaction that we might recognize?"
Smith: "Yes, it has been known as irresistible impulse."
Dancer cross-examines: "... did you find any psychosis in Frederick Manion?"
Smith: "I did not."
Dancer: "Any neuroses?"
Smith: "I found no history of neuroses."
Dancer: "Any history of delusion?"
Smith: "None."
Dancer: "Loss of memory?"
Smith: "Not before this instance."
Dancer: "Did you find any history of conversion... Did you mean that at the time of the shooting he could have known the difference between right and wrong?"
Smith: "He might have, yes."
Dancer: "Dr. Smith, if the defendant could have known what he was doing and could have known that it was wrong, how can you come here and testify that he was legally insane?"
Smith: "I'm not saying he was legally insane." (2:14)

Dancer examines Dr. Harcourt. Dr. Harcourt tells the court, "I'm the medical superintendent of the Bonder State Hospital for the Insane."
Dancer: "It's been stated here that dissociative reaction, or irresistible impulse is not uncommon among soldiers in combat..."
Harcourt: "Dissociative reaction is not something that comes out of the blue and disappears as quickly. It can only occur, even among soldiers in combat, if the individual has a psychoneurotic condition of long-standing."
Dancer: "It's been testified hear that a psychiatric examination of the defendant showed no evidence of neuroses and no history of dissociative reaction... have you formed an opinion about the defendant's sanity on the night of the shooting?"
Harcourt: "I'm of the opinion that he was in sufficient possession of his faculties so that he was not dominated by his unconscious mind."
Dancer: "In other words, he was not in the grip of irresistible impulse."
Harcourt: "In my opinion, he was not."
Paul cross-examines: "Dr. Harcourt, psychiatry is an effort to probe into the dark undiscovered world of the mind. And in there the world might be round; it could be square. Your opinion could be wrong. Dr. Smith's could be right. Isn't that true?"
Harcourt: "I'd be a poor doctor if I didn't agree with that. But I believe my opinion to be right."
Paul: "Do you think you might have changed your opinion if you had examined the defendant as Dr. Smith did?"
Harcourt: "I don't believe so."
Paul: "But Dr. Smith's opinion was made under better circumstances, wasn't it?"
Harcourt: "If you mean that he was able to examine the man, yes." (2:19)

cognitive arm | Dissociative Amnesia | insane | insanity defense | irresistible impulse | on the wagon | psychiatrist | volitional arm

Read the novel by Robert Traver:

The Professional

Brief scene in which a man opens then rapidly closes a briefcase packed with several plastic bags containing white powder. (0:03)

Brief scene in which a man appears to place a powder drug on his finger into his mouth. (0:05)

Crooked DEA agent Stansfield takes a green and yellow capsule from a pillbox, places it in his mouth and appears to crash it between his teeth. His reaction suggests a stimulant effect of very rapid onset. Perhaps the drug is intended to represent the Bontril brand of phendimetrazine. (0:23, 1:14)

A DEA agent finds a plastic bag of white powder drug hidden in a tabletop radio. (0:33)

drug | phendimetrazine

La Bamba

Spoiler alert!

Marijuana (?) strapped around Bob's waste under his clothes. (0:15)

Bob, his wife Rosie, and two friends smoke joints. (0:17)

A man at the party tells rock singer Ritchie Valens that his brother Bob has been "on the wagon for a month now." (1:31)

Bob and Rosie learn that Ritchie has been killed in a plane crash from a radio broadcast. Bob tells his mother Connie, and Ritchie's girlfriend Donna (who provided the inspiration for the song by the same name) learns from a classmate at school. The funeral follows. (1:41)

Bereavement | cannabis | joint | on the wagon

Run, Fatboy, Run

Brief scenes of a male to female transsexual or cross-dressed man. (0:04, 1:11, 1:12)

cross-dressing | gender transition

Stash

Stan and CJ share a joint in the car. (0:01, 0:51)

Villain Bud with a Ziploc bag containing marijuana. (0:14)

Bud injects victim Sarah with an unidentified drug, sedating her. (0:24)

Stan and CJ share a joint in Stan's room. (0:28)

Bud injects victim Jimmy with an unidentified drug. (0:40)

A law enforcement officer arrests CJ and Stan after finding a bag of marijuana in CJ's pocket. (0:54)

A grotesque, dysplastic appearing boy at a crude monument to Bud, asserts, "I won't let you down, Daddy." (1:14)

Bereavement | joint | cannabis

Secretariat

Wake for horse breeder Penny's mother. (0:03)

Penny's mother's burial. (0:06)

Penny and her brother Hollis discuss their father's (Chris) dementia. (0:08)

Chris dies. (0:47)

Hollis, referring to his hope of invalidating Chris's will, says to Penny and her husband Jack, "We could argue he already had dementia." (0:51)

Penny tells her recently deceased attorney's son Seth, "Work is good for grief." (0:56)

Bereavement | Dementia

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

A physician says he gave an injured girl "one sixth grain of pentothal". (0:04)

Physician Han Su learns of reporter Mark's death. (1:36)

Bereavement | thiopental

It's Kind of a Funny Story

16-year-old Craig rides his bicycle onto a bridge and tells us, "I'm killing myself." (0:01)

Craig tells the clerk at the front desk of an emergency room, "I want to kill myself." The clerk tells him, "Fill this out." She hands him a form. (0:03)

An emergency room doctor asks Craig, "How long have you been suicidal?" Craig apologizes, "Sometimes I wish I had an easy answer to why I'm depressed." He goes on to say that he is "obsessed with this girl" and that he was taking Zoloft but stopped. The physician refers him to an outpatient clinic. (0:05)

As mental-health technician Smitty escorts Craig onto the ward we see the sign "Adult Psychiatric." (0:08)

Smitty tells Craig about another patient, "He's schizophrenic." We see the psychiatry ward day room. (0:10)

Catatonic patient Roger "plays" table tennis. (0:11, 0:35)

Craig tells Dr. Minerva, the psychiatrist, "I didn't think I'd be committed." She tells Craig, "Depression is a medical illness." (0:14)

Craig overhears a group of patients in the dining room listing the names of famous people who have killed themselves. (0:17)

Patient Humble tells Craig, "If you don't open up you're never going to heal." (0:18)

Dr. Minerva evaluates Craig in her office. On the bookshelf we see DSM III R; DSM IV R; Melvin Marx, Theories in Contemporary Psychology; Ethan Watters, Therapy's Delusions; The Psychology of Women by Mary R. Walsh; Ernest L. Rossi, Psychology of Mind-Body Healing; Susan Vaughan, The Talking Cure; George E. Vaillant, The Wisdom of the Ego; a phrenology bust. (0:19)

Dr. Minerva conducts a group psychotherapy session. (0:26)

In a telephone call Craig's friend Nia admits to him, "I see a therapist." When she hears unfamiliar voices in the background she asks him, "Are you in a crack den or something?" (0:31)

While talking with Craig teen patient Noell self-consciously covers scars on her left forearm. (0:36)

Recreation therapy: arts and crafts. (0:39)

Roger, still catatonic. (0:40)

In a telephone call Craig's friend Aaron asks him, "Dude, can you give me any Vicodin?" (0:44)

Adult patient Bobby goes berserk in the day room. Craig meets (No. 2) with Dr. Minerva. (0:49)

Dr. Minerva recites the serenity prayer for Craig. (0:51)

Bobby tells Craig he is "zoned out on Ativan." (0:53)

Bobby tells Craig that Hasidic Jewish patient Solomon is "part of this Hasidic acid head scene." We see visual distortion effects. (0:54)

Craig tells Bobby, "I heard your accountant say that you tried to kill yourself."
Bobby tells Craig, "I've tried to kill myself six times." (1:07)

Craig takes unidentified medication handed to him by a nurse. Craig meets (No. 3) with Dr. Minerva. (1:18)

Roger speaks: "Rolling pin." (1:27)

Aaron tells Craig, "I get that depression stuff too... Don't kill yourself, OK" (1:28)

catatonia | group psychotherapy | hydrocodone | lorazepam | LSD | phrenology | psychiatric hospital | psychiatrist | recreation therapy | serenity prayer | sertraline | suicidal | suicide

Read the novel by Ned Vizzini:

Short Circuit 2

Sequel to Short Circuit.

While watching television and assembling toy replicas of himself, robot Number Five watches television. In a commercial suspiciously reminiscent of those of Crazy Eddie in New York City circa 1980 "Manic Mike" hawks electronics: "I admit it. I need therapy, but 'til I'm cured you can save big... Take advantage of Manic Mike's emotional problems... Look at me. I'm in a panic. I'm frantic, and I'm manic." (0:21)

mania

Bedazzled

Spoiler alert!

Short order cook Stanley, distraught that he cannot muster the courage to tell waitress Margaret how he feels about her, after consulting a book to learn how to properly tie a noose, attempts to hang himself and fails at that as well. George (the devil) observes "I couldn't help but noticing that you were making an unsuccessful suicide bid." (0:05)

George says, "You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hanged you for it." After Stanley explains why he wants to end his life George asks, "Don't you think it's taking the easy way out?" George responds that he "can't even manage to kill myself." (0:07)

George introduces himself as the devil. Stanley tells him, "You're a nutcase. You're a bleedin' nutcase." George replies, "They said the same of Jesus Christ, Freud, and Galileo." (0:9)

Stanley tells George, "How about you checking into the nearest loony bin." (0:11)

On a bus Stanley tells Margaret, "The conventions of an ordered society have made us lose what Freud called [unintelligible German?]" (0:20)

Lord Dowdy stutters. (0:38, 0:41)

Burning trash at a park George tells Stanley, "It's a compulsion." (0:47)

Vanity (one of the seven deadly sins) wears a large mirror in front. (0:48)

At a rock concert Stanley sings, "Love me." (0:55)

George tells Stanly, "I'm so depressed."(1:04)

Having come full circle, Stanley tells George, "If I can't have Margaret, I'll kill myself." (1:33)

Sigmund Freud | narcissism | Pyromania | Stuttering | suicide

Never Talk to Strangers

Spoiler alert!

The film opens with forensic psychologist Sarah conducting an examination of murder defendant Max. Sarah tells Max the police positively identified him.
Max: "Yes. By a little teenage crack whore..."
Sarah: "And how often would you say you suffer from bouts of amnesia?"
Max: "I don't remember... Just kidding."
Sarah: "I am here at the request of the court. My job is to find out whether or not you are competent to stand trial. Tell me about these voices that you hear. Do the voices come from inside of your head. Do they come from outside of your head?"
Max: "Outside. Sometimes I hear the voices coming from the TV, telling me to do things... Does it make a difference... if I have MPD, multiple personality disorder."

Sarah dictates Max's evaluation at her office: "A cousin had a psychiatric hospitalization. The defendant has no former prior psychiatric history, however he does exhibit signs of multiple personality disorder. He describes finding himself places and having no idea how he got there." Max's attorney Wabash enters her office and says, "This guy's a total schizo. We're talking Jekyll and Hyde here."
Sarah: "I think you're confusing schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder... He could be suffering from schizophrenia or he could be suffering from MPD, but unless he's making psychiatric history he can't be both."
Wabash: "What you're saying is he's faking this in order to beat the rap..." (0:07)

Sarah tells her new lover Tony, "My mother was killed when I was five, and we moved away... in a car crash." (0:20)

Sarah continues her examination of Max in jail.
Max: "You're a very judgmental person for a psychologist."
Sarah: "I want to ask you a little more about these voices that you say you hear." (0:24)

Shooting at targets at an amusement park appears to trigger a flashback of someone falling down stairs and Sarah loses consciousness. (0:28)

On television the reporter says, "Accused serial killer Max Chesky... awaiting trial... defense maintains he is not guilty by reason of insanity, and yesterday the prosecution's only witness OD'd on crack cocaine." (0:38)

Sarah tells Wabash in a bar, "If he is really suffering from multiple personality disorder one personality doesn't even know what the others are doing." (0:40)

Sarah continues her examination of Max in jail. She asks him how he feels about the person who committed the crime.
Max: "... can't tell the difference between right and wrong" (0:44)

In Tony's apartment Sarah experiences another flashback after she finds newspaper clippings describing her mother's shooting death. (1:04)

Sarah tells Tony, "I know you've been stalking me right from the beginning." (1:11)

Tony shows Sarah a video proving that, "You've been stalking yourself. You need help." (1:13)

When Sarah's stepfather Henry enters the apartment she experiences another flashback, this time of Henry pushing her mother down the stairs then forcing her to shoot and kill her own mother." (1:13)

Sarah describes childhood sexual abuse by Henry. (1:15)

Sarah seems to change. Is she switching personalities or parts? (1:18)

Sarah tells herself, "It never happened. I'm not going to remember any of this." (1:19)

At her office desk Sarah dictates to prepare for a presentation: "Multiple personality disorder cannot easily be faked. Witness the case of recently convicted serial killer Max Chesky who tried to use it as the basis of his defense. The creation of multiple personalities can always be traced back to childhood trauma, often involving violent sexual abuse. Subconsciously the child creates other personalities that share the burden, the literally unbearable burden of shame underlying the repressed memory of the childhood event. These personalities often turn against their creator, some times inflicting actual bodily harm." (1:21)

command hallucination | Dissociative Amnesia | Dissociative Identity Disorder | flashback | forensic psychologist | insane | Malingering | NGRI | Sexual Abuse of Child | stalking

Change of Plans

On hospital rounds oncologist Alain asks another doctor or nurse about "painkillers" for patient Mr. Andrieux. She answers, "Morphine via electric syringe." (0:05)

Divorce attorney Marie-Laurence asks her husband, Piotr, after observing that he never gets worked up, "How many you taken today?" He replies, "None, I dumped the whole box in the stew, so we'll all be high." (0:07)

Gynecologist Mélanie asks her husband Alain whether Piotr is sick. He replies, "No, depressed. Once we define something wrong." (0:12)

Marie-Laurence discusses her husband with Alain. She says, "Depressions start that way." He responds, "He's not there yet." (0:21)

At the dinner table author Sarah observes, "We're all alike except at the shrink." Piotr asks her, "You been analyzed?" She responds, "10 or 15 times, like Woody Allen." (0:26)

Sarah tells the dinner party, "I'd screw up my own suicide." (0:28)

During her pelvic examination Marie-Laurence tells Mélanie, "You know Piotr, a hypochondriac... He's off tranks... He's out of his depression..." (0:36)

Alain says to the dinner party, "She's got Alzheimer's or AIDS..." Actress Juliette tries to talk to her sister Marie-Laurence about their mother's death. "How did you dress her... in her coffin?" (0:43)

Dance teacher Manuela asks, "Do you lie to the dying... So what do you tell the dying?" Alain responds, "You also have to be a psychologist." (0:47)

Attorney Lucas tells the party his wife Sarah is working on a book, the subject of which is "Daring, but commercial: autism." He says, "Autism isn't taboo." Juliette's lover Erwann agrees, "You're right, autism isn't taboo." (0:54)

In a television interview, after publishing her book, Sarah says, "My brother's autistic." (1:32)

Austistic Disorder | Bereavement | depression | hypochondriasis | morphine | suicide

Grace Is Gone

Stanley answers the front door. Two uniformed soldiers inform him that his wife Grace has been killed during military service in Iraq. (0:07)

Stanley cries in his room in his childhood home. (0:31)

Stanley's daughter Heidi meets a young man who tells her the woman with whom she saw him at the motel pool was "an autistic woman. I take care of her for money." (0:45)

Heidi and Stanley discuss her insomnia. (0:47)

Stanley leaves a voicemail message for Grace on their home answering machine. He tells her, "It should have been me." (1:01)

Stanley tells Heidi and her sister Dawn that their mother was killed in Iraq. (1:15)

Heidi speaks at a memorial service for her mother. (1:19)

Bereavement | survivor guilt

Witness for the Prosecution

His doctor tells attorney Sir Wilfrid "You're to have... tranquilizing pill every hour." (0:54)

The prosecuting attorney defendant Leonard on the witness stand, "... insanity is the only reason that you can suggest." (1:26)

insane | sedative

Love in the Time of Cholera

The film opens with the death of Fermina's physician husband Juvenal. Fermina grieves. (0:00)

Funeral for Juvenal. (0:06)

Florentino's mother Tránsito tells her son she did not recognize him at first. (1:04)

Tránsito wanders in the street, apparently disoriented. (1:25)

Funeral for Tránsito. (1:32)

Bereavement | Dementia | disorientation

Read the book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

The Reader

Spoiler alert!

Law professor Rohl announces to the class his intention to discuss Karl Jaspers and "the question of German guilt." (0:49)

Just prior to release after serving a sentence for murder Hanna prepares to hang herself. (1:42)

Karl Jaspers | suicide

Based on the book by Bernhard Schlink:

Skins

A television commentator notes that at Pine Ridge reservation "death from alcoholism is nine times the national average." (0:02)

Policeman Rudy tells his woman friend, referring to his brother, "I think Mogie's mind short circuited in Vietnam." She tells him she does not know how he does it, "having to deal with an alcoholic brother." (0:21)

Mogie's physician in the hospital tells Rudy, referring to his brother Mogie, "Transplant patients don't include practicing alcoholics." (0:23)

Mogie's son Herby tells his father, "I thought you were going to cut back on your drinking." (1:01)

When he returns to Mogie's hospital room Rudy discovers that his brother has died. The funeral ceremony blends military and Native American tribal elements. (1:10)

alcoholic | Alcohol Intoxication | alcoholism | Bereavement

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Dr. Miles Bennell implores Dr. Basset, "Doctor will you tell these fools I'm not crazy?"
Dr. Hill orders the police officers to release Miles and introduces himself: "I'm Dr. Hill from the state mental hospital."
Miles screams, "I'm not insane. I'm not insane." (0:02)

Becky, referring to her cousin Wilma, tells Miles: "She has a, well I guess you'd call it, a delusion..." She tells Miles that Wilma thinks her uncle Ira is an imposter." (0:06)

Hysterical young Jimmy thinks his mother is an imposter. Miles gives Jimmy's grandmother a bottle of medication, then has Jimmy swallow a pill. (0:09)

Wilma discusses her uncle Ira with Miles, who tells her, "Then you'll know that the trouble is inside you." (0:10)

Wilma: "Miles, am I going crazy?"
Miles: "Even these days it isn't as easy to go crazy as you might think. But you don't have to be losing your mind to need psychiatric help. I'd like you to see a doctor friend of mine."
Wilma: "Psychiatrist?"
Miles: "Dan Kauffman." (0:12)

Miles tells Becky, "I could start talking psychiatrical jargon..." (0:14)

Miles introduces Becky and Dr. Kauffman: "This is Dr. Kauffman, our one and only psychiatrist." (0:15)

Miles tells Dr. Kauffman, "I knew you'd been studying hypnosis, but when did you start reading minds?" Dr. Kaufman replies, "A strange neurosis, evidently contagious, and epidemic mass hysteria." (0:15)

Becky tells Miles, "That way lies madness." Miles responds, "What's wrong with madness?" (0:24)

Dr. Kauffman tells Miles, "Doctors can have hallucinations too... the mind is a strange and wonderful thing. I'm not sure it'll ever be able to figure itself out." (0:33)

Dr. Kauffman tells Miles, "These things happen, even to witch doctors like me... These gentlemen are patients badly in need of psychiatric treatment." (0:34)

Miles tells Becky, handing her some pills, "Here. Take two of these. They'll help you stay awake." (0:53)

Becky asks Miles, "Why didn't they just give us a shot or sleeping pill or something?" Miles replies, "Drugs dull the mind." Miles picks up a vial and draws up several syringes. When he and Becky inject their captors, they promptly lose consciousness. (1:01)

Miles tells Drs. Basset and Hill, "Don't just sit there measuring me for a straitjacket."
Basset asks Hill, "Well what do you think? Will psychiatry help?... Mad as a March hare." (1:18)

Capgras' syndrome | psychiatrist | psychostimulant

Party Girl

Brief shots of cross-dressed men waiting to party. (0:00)

Party girl Mary taking a hit from a joint. (0:01)

After she makes a mistake ordering book numbers in the library her boss, Judy, says, "Mary's a bit dyslexic." (0:16)

Mary tells her gay friend Derrick, "The two of you were on ecstasy. It turns out in your spinal fluid." (0:20)

Judy tells Mary, "For your information Freud's study of Dora is not a biography. It is the cornerstone of his psychoanalysis. That's psychology dear. The psychology section is for your information in the 100s along with philosophy and logic." Shot of the title page "The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud." (0:29)

Mary lights a joint. (0:33)

Recovering alcoholic and club owner René is on her way to an AA meeting at the library when she encounters Mary there. "I connect with that meeting... I was so close to a slip." They walk to the door of the meeting room together. René tells Mary, "Running into you like this, it was like my higher power was watching. Hi everyone. I'm Renée, and I'm a god damn alcoholic." Mary coughs and has to leave because of the cigarette smoke. (0:50)

cross-dressing | Dora | Sigmund Freud | higher power | joint | meeting | Reading Disorder | slip

A Texas Funeral

Young Sparta views the body of his namesake rancher grandfather. (0:00)

Sparta's mother Mary Joan says, "It's called passive aggression." (0:04)

Sparta's father Zach, Mary Joan, and Sparta pickup Zach's sister Miranda from a psychiatric hospital for an overnight pass to attend her father's funeral. (0:05)

Referring to his son Sparta, Zach says, "We got ourselves a little mute boy." (0:08)

Mary Joan asks Zach's mother Murtis, "Honey, I'm hunting for some sleeping pills." Murtis replies, "There's a whole bottle in the medicine cabinet." (0:56)

Miranda tells medical student Walter, "I'm a bona fide schizophrenic." (1:01)

Miranda tells Walter, "Not long after that -- I couldn't tell you how long -- I found myself in the sanitarium." (1:07)

Miranda, still grieving the loss of her unborn child years ago, tells Mary Joan and her cousin in law Charlotte, "In my heart I killed my baby." (1:16)

Funeral for elder Sparta. (1:29)

Young Sparta talks. (1:34)

Bereavement | mutism | psychiatric hospital

The Social Network

Facebook founder Mark asks Erica, "Are you delusional?" Erica tells Mark, "You're obsessed with finals clubs. You have finals clubs OCD. You need to see someone about it who will prescribe you some sort of medication. You don't care if the side effects may include blindness." (0:01)

Marks friend Eduardo, during the deposition, says "I'm not a psychiatrist... A psychiatrist would say that he's paranoid... and delusional." (1:08)

Napster founder Sean tells Mark how Victoria's Secret founder "Roy Raymond jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge." (1:21)

After a girl proclaims "bong hit," her friend smokes marijuana with a very tall glass pipe. (1:29)

Girl using a straw to snort cocaine from another girls bare abdomen. (1:48)

cannabis | cocaine | suicide

Wild Grass

Retiree (?) Georges composes a letter to dentist Marguerite: "We buried my father a week ago... My mother is threatening suicide." (0:39)

Marguerite plays back Georges' message left on her answering machine: "I heard my father saying, 'Your mother tried to commit suicide.'" (0:40)

Two policemen come to Georges' home to ask him to stop contacting Marguerite. Implying that he might follow a similar course he exhorts them, "Look at the state I'm in! If I could, do you know what I'd do? The same thing my old neighbor did! On the dole at 50. Married, two kids. He blew his brains out!" (0:53)

Based on the book: L'incident (French Edition)

stalking | suicide