Rize

Baby Tight Eyez' about his mother: "She been smokin' dope..."
Baby Tight Eyez' Pastor: "His mom had a drug problem... mom who was sober, dad is sober." (0:35)

Lil C: "Dad committed suicide. Shot himself in the head... didn't sing at the funeral." (0:36)

Lil C or Tight Eyez: "I had to go to a crack house to get my mama out..." (0:37)

Dragon's mom: "My mother and father were both addicts... I had a bout with substance abuse.." (1:09)

Bereavement | suicide

Comedy of Innocence

When his mother Ariane finds him at a Park, Paul calls her by her first name and says, "You must have the wrong child... You're not my mommy. (0:09)

Violin teacher Isabella, visiting the home of Ariane and Paul says, "You said your brother's a psychiatrist." (0:47)

Martine, psychiatrist Serge's assistant, takes Isabella to Serge's psychiatric hospital. People in white coats stroll the grounds with patients. Isabella says to Serge, "I'm in the madhouse." (1:11)

Paul's friend Alexander talks about Paul with Ariane. He tells her, "I pointed out that a ghost was just a hallucination..." (1:22)

intermetamorphosis | misidentification syndromes | psychiatric hospital | psychiatrist

Confessions of a Porn Addict

Video pornography fan Mark raises the possibility that he might suffer from an addiction. (0:06)

Mark says, "Just like a heroin addict I needed stronger stuff." (0:09)

Recovering pornography addict Bob says, "I suggested to Mark that he should seek the counsel and safety of a porn addicts support group." In the meeting he says, "My name is Bob and I'm an addict." Bob talks about watching material involving "... bondage, incest, bestiality." (0:16)

The group recites the Serenity Prayer then proclaims in unison "one day at a time."Mark says, "I'm basically going cold turkey." (0:18)

Bob offers support to Mark by telephone.
Bob: "What's the craving like?"
Mark: "I'm Jonesing..."
Bob arrives at Mark's door: "I'm your sponsor." (0:20)

Another meeting. (0:22)

Mark says, "You don't have to be... Sigmund Freud to figure this one out." (0:25)

Bob says, "That's what a sponsor does... I'm always afraid of a relapse." (0:29)

Man cross-dressed as Marilyn Monroe says, "Nancy's the most anorexic..." (0:31)

Mark tells Bob of pornographic film producer Rob Black, "He's a... psychopath." (0:40)

Array of bongs in shop display case (0:50)

Mark's ex-wife Felice says of Mark, "He was a porn addict." (1:00)

At another meeting Mark reads the Serenity Prayer, says "one day at a time," and is echoed by the group. (1:16)

addict | addiction | cold turkey | craving | meetings | recovery | relapse | serenity prayer | Sigmund Freud | sponsor

Sherlock Holmes

Inspector Lastrade tells detective Holmes, "He's catatonic," referring to the cemetery groundskeeper who believes he has just witnessed a dead man break out of his tomb. (0:38)

Dr. Watson tells Holmes, "I'm psychologically disturbed." (0:55)

Finding Holmes hanging from the ceiling by a noose around his neck, apparently dead, Watson observes, "Suicide is not in his repertoire." (1:56)

catatonia | suicide

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Eustace writes, "So far every person I've met in this strange place suffers from the most florid delusions..." (0:27)

Lucy reads from a book of spells: "Spells to Make the Unseen Seen: Like the 'P' in psychology and the 'H' in psychiatry..." (0:39)

delusion

L'Age d'Or

Before talking to "The Man" on the telephone the Minister of the Interior (?) handles a small pistol before closing it in a drawer. The ensuing conversation disturbs him. We hear a gunshot then see the pistol on the floor and the Minister's body stuck to the ceiling. Is this a surrealist representation of suicide? (0:48)

suicide

The Hunt for Red October

The loss of his wife seems to motivate Capt. Ramius' plot.

Russian ambassador Lysenko tells presidential aide Pelt, "The submarine in question... is commanded by Captain Marko Ramius. Apparently he's suffered a kind of mental or nervous breakdown." (1:27)

Bereavement | nervous breakdown

Creation

Scientist Charles Darwin thinks to himself how best to address his own symptoms: "Consider increasing laudanum by 10% perhaps." (0:10)

Charles' deceased daughter Annie appears to him. (0:27, 0:51, 1:01, 1:18, 1:41)

Charles hallucinates. (0:57)

Charles encounters his wife Emma for the first time after Annie's death. (1:14)

Charles talks with Dr. Gully who asks him about his familiarity with the works of (presumably Thomas Confessions of an English Opium Eater) "De Quincey... He maintains that certain thoughts can reside in our mind without us being aware of them. They then may manifest as boils and fainting spells, and ghosts." (1:16) Did De Quincey actually formulate early theories of unconscious production of physical (somatization) or mental symptoms or pathology.

Annie dies with Charles at her bedside, and, back in the present, he cries. (1:25)

Bereavement | hallucination | laudanum | somatization | unconscious

Based on the book by Keynes:

Exit Through the Gift Shop

We learn of graffiti maven Thierry's compulsion to record almost everything with his video camera. (0:04)

Graffiti artist "Borf" explains that the name he uses was "The name of my best friend who killed himself when we were 16." (0:21)

Thierry tells how "I lost my mother when I was 11 years old." He explains how the circumstances of his learning of her death seem to have led to his video compulsion. (0:25)

Bereavement | suicide

Pearl Harbor

Spoiler alert!

Pilot Red stutters. (0:09, 0:10, 0:20, 0:54, 1:17, 1:32)

Pilot Danny visits nurse Evelyn to tell her Pilot Rafe was killed in action. (0:47)

Evelyn tells  Rafe goodbye. (0:58)

Evelyn, Rafe, and Evelyn's son Danny visit the grave of Danny's father. (2:51)

Bereavement | Stuttering

Ward No. 6

Series of interviews of psychiatric hospital patients. (0:00)

Patients loiter in the hospital court yard. Psychiatrist Khobotov explains: "Schizophrenia is the most widespread psychiatric disease. The name was suggested by German doctor Bleiler [sic]... The Greek 'schizo' means 'to split' and 'phren', is "mind." Incidentally the borderline between psychotic and normal people is pretty illusory. It would be correct to say all of us have mental disorders..."
Inteviewer: "How do you diagnose it?"
Khobotov: "... a schizophrenic has the smell of rancid oil and almond." (0:09)

Khobotov introduces patient Igor. The camera pans around the day room filled with patients. A nurse says of Igor, "He hears voices." Patient Alex says, "My neighbors irradiate me... [with] a special device." (0:11)

A nurse tells us about patient "Pankratov... said he had killed John Lennon on orders form Yuri Andropov... hears voices..."
Pankratov: "The voices are good... both male and female"
Khobotov: "Acute Schizophrenia"
Khobotov: "Patient Ivan Gromov... persecution mania... Dr. Ragin believed him to be a prophet. How is Ragin now?"
The nurse: "No change"
Gromov: "He's the former chief doctor?"
Khobotov: "Yes" (0:13)

A nurse asks Dr. Ragin to go to the dining room. (0:15)

The chief psychiatrist preceding Ragin provides some history of the hospital and Ragin (0:17)

Ragin's friend postmaster Mikhail tells Khobotov, "I was the only person in town whose company didn't depress Dr. Ragin." (0:20)

Mikhail tells of hinting to Ragin to stop drinking, telling him of a man who "... completely recovered after going on the wagon." He tells us Dr. Khobotov advised Ragin "to take potassium bromide." (0:42)

Khobotov administers a mental status examination to Dr. Ragin during a meeting with other staff. (0:43)

Ragin tells Mikhail, "It has taken me 20 years to find one intelligent man in town, and he is insane." (0:54)

Khobotov and Ragin enter ward 6. Khobotov leaves. Assistant Nikita shows Ragin a bed. (0:58)

Dr. Ragin restrained in his bed. (1:08)

Eugen Bleuler | hallucination | mental status examination | psychiatric hospital | psychiatrist | restraint | Schizophrenia

Based on the Chekhov Novella:

Bad Influence

Financial analyst Michael tells his loser brother Pismo, "I just think you could do better than sitting around your apartment smoking pot all day.

At a party Alex snaps the top off of a small container and offers it to Michael. "Decongestant?" Michael snorts it. (0:43) Alex snorts from the same container while driving. (0:48)

Michael, looking at himself in his mirror, realizes he cannot recall how he injured his hand the night before. (0:50)

Pismo smokes marijuana in a glass pipe. (1:14)

Should we regard Alex as a psychopath?

alcoholic blackout | cannabis | cocaine | psychopath