Dragon Seed

#dragonseed

Bereavement. (0:38, 0:40, 1:07)

A soldier kills Third Cousin's son. (0:57)

Ling Tan and his wife find grandmother dead. (1:06)

Orchid's husband brings her lifeless body home. The family grieves. (1:08)

Wu Lien tells Ling Tan what he trades to survive: "... opium..."
Ling Tan, shocked: "Opium!" (1:37)

Wu Lien is killed. (2:03)

Bereavement | opium

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Analyze This

#analyzethis

In a psychotherapy session a tearful patient tells psychiatrist Ben, "He did take out a restraining order..." A fantasy of what he wanted to say, but did not, distracts Ben. (0:05)

Ben tells his son Michael, "Please don't analyze me. I can't be analyzed by somebody who..." (0:08)

Gangster bodyguard Jelly asks Ben, "You a doctor?"
Ben: "A psychiatrist."
Jelly: "Oh, a shrink. I talked to a shrink one time." (0:10)

At a party, Ben's father Isaac interjects, while singing and playing the piano, "Neurotics only." then sings, "Thank God for Prozac." (0:11)

Mob boss Paul has a panic attack. (0:13)

Emergency room doctor tells Paul, "You had an anxiety attack... panic attack. Don't worry. I can give you some Xanax." (0:14)

Paul: "I need... a psychiatrist."
Jelly: "What do you need a shrink for anyway?"
Paul: "Talking to a shrink could be taken the wrong way." (0:15)

Paul interrupts Ben's psychotherapy session with a male patient. (0:16)

Paul tells Ben, "This friend... see a shrink."
Ben: "Tell me why you think you need therapy."
Paul: "I don't need therapy.."
Paul describes panic attack.
Ben: "Panic attacks... medication could help... some form of therapy... " (0:18)

Paul tells Ben, "I couldn't get it up last night." (0:28)

Ben tells Paul, "When I got into family therapy this wasn't the kind of family I had in mind. (0:30)

Been asks Paul, "Have you been under a lot of stress lately?" He continues, "Stress is a very powerful force."
Paul: "You are my shrink." (0:31)

Paul tells Ben, "I didn't have an actual panic attack but I started panicking thinking I might get an attack."
Ben: "What were you thinking about when you started to get anxious?"
They continue discussing the death of Paul's father. (0:37)

Ben tells Paul, "There may have been some unresolved Oedipal conflict."
Ben: "It's Freud."
Paul: "Then Freud's a sick f***r, and you are too." (0:39)

Paul tells Ben,"Hey, people get depressed..."
Ben: "So now you're going to tell me it was a suicide?"  (0:45)

Ben tells Laura, referring to who will be at their wedding, "any of your family members who are done with their crisis counseling." (0:50)

FBI agents introduce themselve as from "OCD."
Ben: "Obsessive compulsive disorder?" (0:51)

Ben tells FBI agents, "I'm a psychotherapist." He explains the fountain is a "gift to celebrate the completion of therapy." (0:52)

A gangster tells Paul, "The word is out that you're talking to a shrink..."
Gangster: "If you're looking to establish an insanity plea for later on, that's okay... Get rid of the shrink." (0:53)

Ben tells Paul why gifts can be a problem: "It's a boundary issue." (0:56)

At a funeral service Paul tells Ben, "You may need therapy yourself." (0:57)

Ben tells Paul, "Freud believed..."
Paul: "Hey. F**k Freud."
Ben tells Paul about his father, "He's a psychiatrist." (0:58)

Paul asks Ben, "Don't you want to analyze me no more?" (1:00)

Ben listens to FBI recording: "Get rid of the shrink."
Paul and Ben discuss Paul's father's death. (1:01)

Ben tells Paul, "This is what we call a transference neurosis..." (1:07)

Paul and Ben discuss Paul's father's death.
Ben: "You blame yourself."
Paul: "I let him die."
Paul: "I was real conflicted about it." (1:11)

Ben conducts a psychotherapy session with a man and woman. He tells Elaine, "Smoke some joints." (1:16)

Paul cries while watching a television commercial portraying a father and son. (1:18)

Ben assures Jelly, "I'm a psychiatrist. Believe me, I can be vague." (1:22)

Ben tells Paul, "We say you have a corrective emotional experience." (1:37)

See the sequel: Analyze That

alprazolam | Bereavement | boundaries | family psychotherapy | fluoxetine | Sigmund Freud | Male Erectile Disorder | Oedipus complex | panic attack | psychiatrist | psychoanalysis | psychotherapist | psychotherapy | stress

Troubled Water

#troubledwater

Preacher Anna finds a man near her church in such severe (heroin?) withdrawal that he cannot inject himself. With help from organist Thomas she injects the drug for him. (0:17)

Thomas tells Anna, "When someone's dead, there are no words that can help." (0:23)

Thomas' bosses wife talks to teacher Agnes about losing her son who still lives: "He's a drug addict...But he's my boy...I buried the son I once knew." (1:15)

Agnes follows Thomas. (1:25)

Agnes and Jon's adopted daughter Selma buries dead adoptive brother Isak's shoes next to their house. (1:31)

Agnes follows Anna's son Jens and Thomas. (1:39)

Bereavement | stalking

The Twilight Samurai

#twilightsamurai

In the opening scene: The family grieves over the body of young Ito’s mother. (0:00)

Twillight is happy that his demented mother Kinu recognizes him. (0:10)

His great uncle tells Twillight, referring to his poor hygiene, appearing unbathed before his lordship, “This would have meant hara-kiri!” (0:16)

His friend, samurai Iinuma tells Twilight, “My condolensces on your bereavement.” (0:27)

Twilight's mother fails to recognize him. (0:32)

Twillight tells Iinuma’s wife, “Some people have even been ordered to commit suicide.” (1:09)

Lord Hori tells Twillight: “His Lordship orded Shima Hasegawa and his faction to commit suicide... But... Zenemon Yogo... refuses to commit suicide.”(1:15)

Samurai Zenemon tells Twillight, “Twelve years ago he was ordered to commit suicide after a power struggle within his clan... Why do I have to cut open my stomach? When she [his daughter] should have been a bud swelling into a bloom she died.” (1:47)

Ito, now an adult, at the grave of her father Twillight and her step-mother, Tomoe. (2:04)

Bereavement | dementia | suicide

Everlasting Moments

#everlastingmoments

His friends bring stevedore Sigge home drunk. (0:04)

Temperance Society meeting: “And Sigfrid Larsson. He has been seen yet again intoxicated in public.” (0:10)

Sigge takes off his belt to beat his son Ville.
Ville's sister Maja comes to his defense: “Kalle said you were a drunkard, Father
Sigge beats Maja. (0:16)

Sigge drunk with friend at home. (0:17)

After she is shamed in class student Ingeborg walks out onto the ice. Maja tries to run after her, but stops when she realizes the ice is too thin. Ingeborg's lifeless body is brought home on a cart. Maja prays for forgiveness. Ingeborg's mother asks Maria to photograph the body. (0:48)

Sigge comes home drunk and continues drinking as he takes the family on horse and cart. He passes out. (0:59)

Sigge drinks. (1:20)

Sigge finds his friend Englund having hanged himself in the mill. (1:31)

We hear Sigge beating Maria off camera. (1:35)

Alcohol Intoxication | alcoholism | Bereavement | Physical Abuse of Adult | Physical Abuse of Child | suicide

Old Dogs

#olddogs

Business man Charlie tells business man Dan, reading from the label of a prescription bottle, “I’d like to see troop leader Barry deal with the side effects of even one of these little puppies... Side effects include swollen tongue..." (0:41)

Interpreter Jenna tells Charlie “It’s a bereavement group I belong to... My grandma passed away six months ago.” (0:45)

Jenna tells Charlie about "circle time": “It’s when the whole group gathers together to share their grief.” (0:47)

Charlie displays inappropriate affect, smiling in a sad situation. (0:48)

Charlie brags at a board meeting, “I’m the first guy to insult a bereavement group and still get the girl.” (1:08)

Charlie learns Lucky the dog has died while he was away. (1:11)

Burial service followed by wake for Lucky. (1:12)

adverse effect | Bereavement | inappropriate affect | side effect

The Country Girl

#countrygirl

Director Bernie: "I hear he hasn't had a drink in a long time."
Producer Cookie: "To a drunk 10 minutes is a long time." (0:03)

Cookie asks Bernie, “Why can’t you be satisfied with a good, reliable, adequate, normal, sober actor?”
Bernie: “Because he’ll give you a good, reliable, adequate, normal, sober performance.”
Cookie: “You had to go to Stillman’s gym and get a punch-drunk fighter...”
Bernie: “A binge would be a real cause...” (0:10)

Bernie asks Frank’s wife Georgie about Frank, “Does he still drink?” (0:14)

Bernie tells Frank, “Cook thinks you’re a drinker.”
Frank explains to Bernie why he was drinking: "While I was playing in that show our son died."
Bernie: “I need an actor who can stay sober and learn lines.” (0:16)

Frank explains to Bernie, “And then our son died.” He continues about Georgie, “And there she is stretched out across the bed dead drunk, with her wrists cut and bleeding like... Inside of a year she was a hopeless drunk... She had fits of depression... That’s when I began hitting the bottle pretty hard.”
Bernie: “You are the weak one now. That’s what she wanted.” (0:24)

Frank recalls his son Johnnie’s death when he wanders into traffic while Frank poses for a photograph. Georgie discovers that Frank has started drinking again.
Georgie: “When we get to Boston I’ll get you some sleeping pills.” (0:36)

Georgie tells Bernie, “Next day you read he’s hung himself from the chandelier.”
Bernie, later: “Did it ever occur to you that you and your strength might be the very reason he is weak.?” (0:45)

Georgie tells Frank, “I’ll get you another sleeping pill.” (0:51)

While posing for a photograph again Frank experiences a flashback to his son’s death. A little later he takes a drink from a bottle. Georgie observes that the cough syrup has “22% alcohol in it.” (0:56)

Georgie predicts to Bernie about Frank, “He’s heading for a bender... after handling a cunning drunkard for ten years.”
Bernie: “... you could never call him a cunning drunkard.”
Georgie: “I’m a drunkard’s wife.”(0:58)

After finding the cough syrup bottle empty Georgie looks for another even though Frank tells her he poured it down the sink. After she leaves he pulls another bottle from a boot. In the next scene he drinks at a bar. (1:05)

At the jail Bernie confronts Frank, “She’s driven you to drink for ten years, and you call her weak?” (1:13)

Bernie, based on Frank’s story, admonishes Georgie not to make any “Phony suicide attempts.”
Georgie: “Suicide attempts are Frank’s department.”
When Bernie demands of Frank “Show me your wrists!” he realizes the truth.
Georgie asks Bernie, “Was I a hopeless drunk? Did I have fits of depression?” (1:14)

GeorgIe explains to Bernie how Frank behaved after “the boy was killed. Ever since then Frank has acted like a murderer... shunned any responsibility...”
Georgie: “He’ll be in the strong sober hand of Bernie Dodd.” (1:18)

Bernie tells Frank the only reason he will leave the show: “Because I fire you for being an unreliable slobbering drunk.”
Frank: “I could drink a little more. Nobody blamed me. They blamed it on the accident... I cut my wrists, not deep enough to die, just enough to bleed myself back into the center of attention. ” (1:24)

Georgie asks Bernie, “Depressed, aren’t you?”
Bernie: “Depressed and mean.” (1:31)

Bernie tells Frank, “Frank, there are as many reasons for drinking as their are drinkers, but there are only two reasons why a drinker stops: He dies, or he decides to quit all by himself.” (1:37)

alcoholism | Bereavement | enabling | flashback | para-alcoholic | reciprocity | suicide

Trainspotting

#trainspotting

Heroin addict Mark as narrator asks, "Who needs reasons when you've got heroin?" (0:01)

Addict Sick Boy injects addict Allison using a tourniquet.
Dealer Swanney cooks heroin in a spoon for injection. (0:02)

Swanney holds a syringe.
Mark talks about "all the things that don't matter when you've got a sincere and truthful junk habit." (0:03)

Mark tells Swanney: "I'm finished with that..." (0:05)

Mark prepares to kick, listing the supplies he needs which include "one bottle of Valium." He swallows one while saying he procured it "from my mother who is in her own domestic and socially acceptable way also a drug addict... All I need is one final hit to soothe the pain while Valium takes effect." (0:06)

Mark holds suppositories provided by Mikey, inserts them while standing in front of Mikey. He explains, "Heroin makes you constipated. The heroin from my last hit is fading away and the suppositories have yet to melt." He bends over in pain from cramps. He enters "the worst 'TOILET' in Scotland." Realizing he has expelled the suppositories into the toilet he dives in to retrieve them, finds them on the bottom and surfaces through the toilet. (0:07)

Mark talks about "the downside of coming off junk... Sickboy... came off junk at the same time as me." (0:11)

Mark: "Without heroin I tended to lead a useful and fulfilling life as a good citizen." (0:13)

Mark passes addict friend Spud some powder on a torn square of paper.
Spud says, "A little dab of speed is just the ticket mate." His speech turns pressured. (0:14)

Addict Tommy tells Mark about their friend Begbie "He's got a hangover so bad..." (0:17)

Mark explains, "Begbie didn't do drugs either..." (0:19)

Mark describe drug effects: "Heroin had... sex drive... fueled by alcohol and amphetimine..."
Sick Boy passes a pill to girl's mouth with his tongue (0:22)

Mark says, "[we] made a healthy informed democratic decision to get back on heroin as soon as possible." (0:33)

Preparing to use: Pouring brown powder in a spoon of water (close up shot), stirring the mixture with a matchstick. (0:34)
Boiling the mixture with flaming matches. (0:35)

Sickboy Says, "Like heroin... Heroin's got great... personality." He swivels shoe heel to reveal hidden paraphernalia. (0:36)

Tommy and Mark nod. Sick Boy nods with tourniquet still on his arm, needle in his vein. (0:37)

Mark explains how the "National Health Service... was the source of much of our gear. We stole drugs. We stole prescriptions or bought them, sold them, swapped them, forged them, photocopied them, or traded drugs with cancer victims, alcoholics... We took morphine, diamorphine, cyclazine, codeine, temazepam, nitrazepam, phenobarbital, sodium amytal, dextropropoxyphene, methadone, nalbuphine, pethidine, pentazocine, buprenorphine, dextromoramide, chlormethiazole. The streets are awash with drugs.
Close up of filtering cooked mixture through a tiny wad of cotton on the syringe tip.
Mark with a tourniquet.
Allison injects Swannye in his thigh. (0:37)

The baby is discovered dead in its crib. Mark announces, "I'm cooking up."
Allison tells him, "I need a hit."
Mark holds a needle. (0:39)

In court the judge tells defendants Spud and Mark, "Heroin addiction may explain your actions, but it does not excuse them... Mr. Renton, I undertand that you have entered into a program of rehabilitation in an attempt to wean yourself away from heroin." (0:42)

Mark: "... state sponsored addiction... three sickly sweet doses of methadone a day instead of smack, but it's never enough... I need... one hit..." (0:44)

Mark applies a belt for a tourniquet: "intravenous injection of hard drugs please." Swammey brings Mark a full syringe. He pushes the air out, injects, pulls blood into the syringe, pushes the drug into his vein and falls back, not just onto the floor, but down through the floor, pulling the rug in after him. Could he be seizing? (0:45)

Swammey sends Mark, apparently overdosed, by cab to hospital where another injection, this time likely of naloxone, brings him abruptly up out of the hole with a gasp, fully awake. (0:47)

Back at their home Mark's parents lock him in a room to withdraw in "junkie limbo... sickness is on its way. Sweat, chills, nausea, pain and craving..." Mark experiences visual distortions, hallucinates Begbie and the dead baby, now alive crawling on ceiling. He writhes in bed, sees visions of Spud, a TV quiz show. (0:50)

Mark's mom says, "No methadone..."
Mark asks, "Jellies?" (chloral hydrate?)
Mom: "You're worse coming off that than you are with the heroin." (0:52)

Mark describes "several years of addiction... depression" (0:57)

Diane asks Mark "Is that hash I can smell?" (1:00)

Begbie discovers his date is really a man dressed as a woman. (1:07)

Mark talks about Sick Boy and "the one smack deal..." (1:08)

Memorial service for Tommy: Gavin (?) tells Mark how before his death Tommy "just uses more smack for the pain"
The group grieves in a pub. (1:10)

Mark draws up a syringe to test a sample of drug before selling it. Referring to Begbie, Mark talks about what might happen "If he got caught with a bag full of smack..." (1:15)

For Mark's "final hit" he injects in a bus toilet. (1:16)

At the drug deal we see bags of brown powder, presumably heroin. (1:18)

addict | addiction | amobarbital | amphetamine | Bereavement | buprenorphine | chloral hydrate | chlormethiazole | codeine | cross-dressing | dextromoramide | diazapam | drug | hallucination  | heroin | meperidine | methadone | methadone maintenance therapy | morphine | nalbuphine | naloxone | nitrazepam | Opioid Intoxication | Opioid Withdrawal | overdose | pentazocine | phenobarbital | pressured speech | temazepam | Transvestic Fetishism

Pollock

#pollockmovie

Artist Jackson Pollock drunk. (0:03)

Pollock hysterical in a psychiatric hospital room as his wife Lee and his brother Sande prepare to take him home. (0:17)

Jackson explains to his friend Reuben why the military did not draft him: "4F, too neurotic." (0:20)

Lee asks Jackson, referring to his painting, “What is this, free association, automatism?” (0:24)

Lee tells art collector Peggy, “The source of art comes from the unconscious.” (0:27)

Lee places unidentified pills on a table for Jackson, he washes them down. (1:13)

Jackson announces, “first one I’ve had in two years” as he takes a drink. (1:32)

Jackson drinks. His behavior escalates to full blown rage. Intermittent Explosive Disorder? (1:34)

After he drinks and becomes progressively abusive, Lee tells Jackson, referring to his psychotherapy, “Weekly trips to your therapist, what a joke.” He rages again, breaking furniture. (1:39)

Intoxicated and despondent Jackson's car leaves the road resulting in a crash that ended his life and that of a passenger. Did he intend to kill himself? (1:55)

Alcohol Intoxication | alcoholism | automatism | driving while intoxicated | Intermittent Explosive Disorder | rage | suicide

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Romance

Marie tells Paul, “I’ll kill myself.” (0:11)

Paul’s casket removed from horse drawn cart. (1:35)

Bereavement | suicide

Happiness

#happinessmovie

Psychotherapist Bill daydreams and struggles to stay awake while patient Allen talks. (0:06)

Bill takes a turn as patient with his psychotherapist or supervisor. (0:16)

Bill's wife Trish sarcastically tells Bill, referring to their son Billy, “He’s depressed.”
Trish: “Sometimes I wonder how any of your patients can talk to you.”
Bill: “Sometimes I wonder if they’ll ever stop.” (0:19)

Trish's mother Mona at the medicine cabinet yells to her husband Lenny, “Where’s my Valium?” (0:24)

A police officer tells struggling singer-songwriter Joy in a phone call that her friend Andy appears to have killed himself: “Looks like a pill-vodka OD with a bag over his head for a chaser.” Later at work she cries. (0:35)

Bill dumps the contents of some capsules into chocolate syrup for ice cream for Billy and his friend Johnny who is sleeping over. When Johnny turns down the ice cream he puts more drug in a sandwich for him. Billy falls asleep. (0:47)

Billy tells his family about his teacher: “Because she’s a drug addict... She’s a junkie...”
Trish: “Well if Mrs. Paley turns out in fact to be a junkie then she should be fired... When it comes to drug abuse and my children...” (2:00)

Bill admits to Billy that he sexually abused Johnny: “I couldn’t help myself...” (2:06)

diazepam | hypnotic | Pedophilia | psychotherapist | psychotherapy | Sexual Abuse of Child | suicide

Jesse Stone: Stone Cold

Deputy Molly catches suspect Bo smoking a joint in the boys' room at school. (0:36)

Alcoholic (?) police chief Jesse pours the rest of his glass of Scotch on the ground. Will he stop drinking? (0:59)

alcoholic | Bereavement | joint

Dahmer

#dahmermovie

(See also: Raising Jeffrey Dahmer)

Candy factory worker Jeffrey objects to shopper Khamtay, "that we've gotten to a point where doing nice things for people is considered insane." (0:05)

Jeffrey crushes pills from a prescription bottle, pours the powder into a drink, stirs it and serves it to Khamtay. (0:06)

Khamtay appears sedated. (0:08)

Jeffrey pours a substance from a small vial into a drink, gives it to a man in a bar who becomes sedated. (0:39) He repeats the process over and over. (0:42)

Jeffrey has only two pills left. He crushes them for knife shop salesman Rodney's drink. (0:45)

Jeffrey ask Rodney about his aunt: "She lose her memory?"
Rodney: "She had that old folks' disease."
Jeffrey: "Alzheimer's?" (0:56)

Jeffrey picks up wrestler Lance who is walking down a road. "You wanna smoke some weed?" Jeffrey lights a bong, shares it with Lance.
Lance lights a glass pipe. Jeffrey tells Lance, "You're going to become completely depressed." (1:10)

Jeffrey tells Rodney: "I'm a pervert. I'm an exhibitionist." (1:27)

Jeffrey's father Lionel tells Jeffrey: "Drinking is a disease... Therapy can give you some help." (1:35)

cannabis | sedative | Exhibitionism

A Prophet

#aprophet

Another inmate asks new prisoner Malik, "Got anything from outside? Cell phone, hash, pills?" (0:07)

Inmate Reyeb asks Malik, "Want some hash?" (0:12)

Malik hallucinates Reyeb. (0:34, 0:37)

Jordi tells Malik, "enough to stop and buy my own dope." (0:52)

Jordi with crack cocaine in foil, and hash. (0:53)

Jordi asks Malik, "Don't you smoke my hash every day?"
Malik, later: “Just for a few joints?” (1:01)

Malik talks to hallucination of Reyeb. (1:02, 1:24)

Jordi tells Malik, "It's crowded here, and we got hash." (1:25)

César asks Malik, "What's your thing? Hashish? Pills?"
Malik: "Hash." (1:29)

Malik talks to a hallucination of Reyeb burning. (1:34)

Jordi draws up a syringe and gives some to Malik who hallucinates Reyeb. (2:03)

Hallucination of Reyeb talks to Malik. (2:07)

cannabis | cocaine | hallucination | PTSD

Analyze That

#analyzethat

The sequel to Analyze This

Psychiatrist Ben speaks of the two sides of his deceased father at the memorial service: "One is the public Isaac Sobel, the eminent psychotherapist... He was a psychotic, mind f**king prick." Dr. Joyce Brothers sits next to Ben's mother. (0:05)

Ben apologizes to FBI agents for his wife Laura, "She's grieving. It's a process."
Agent Miller: "Well shortly after you two spoke he seemed to have some kind of breakdown." (0:09)

Observing gang boss Paul in his prison cell prison psychiatrist Dr. Kassam tells Ben, "I'm shooting him with Thorazine 300 mg bid. It seems to keep him pretty calm." When they enter the cell Paul does not respond to his real name but does respond to "Tony" (the character from West Side Story). He addresses Ben as "Maria." Intermetamorphosis? (0:10)

Dr. Kassam tells Ben, "He sings for a while then he goes completely catatonic."
Ben: "When I was a resident we used to play with the catatonics." Holding a syringe with needle in front of Paul he continues, "So if he is truly catatonic, if I stuck him with this needle.. then he shouldn't feel a thing." He plunges the needle into Paul's thigh. Paul remains still.
Ben: "When he comes out of this I want to do some neuropsychological testing." (0:11)

Ben administers the tests to Paul, first using ink blots, then colored blocks. (0:12)

Ben relates his diagnosis to agent Chapin: "Based on his symptoms and his test results I would call it brief psychotic disorder and if it persists, schizophreniform disorder. Dr. Kassam, the psychiatrist at Sing Sing, concurs with the diagnosis... In certain people prolonged exposure to stressful situations... can produce a temporary psychotic state... He could deteriorate to the point that he's permanently schizophrenic."
Ben: "My father just died, and I'm grieving."
Chapin: You want to see him sent to a facility for the criminally insane?"
Ben: "I handle neurotic soccer moms and alcoholic Gentiles." (0:14)

Paul tells Ben, referring to his father's death, "He's dead so get over it." (0:18)

Psychotherapy session for Paul at Ben's home office. Paul says, "I'm anxious." (0:25)

Ben talks to Paul about "when your father was murdered"
Paul: "I think about it every day." (0:29)

Paul's bodyguard Jelly tells Ben about the death of the witness, "the guy committed suicide..." (0:31)

Psychotherapy session. (0:36)

Paul describes a dream to Ben: "I'm 16. You're Freud." We see Ben as Sigmund Freud, first using a spoon to snort cocaine, then holding a cigar." (0:39)
Ben: "In this case it's about perfomance anxiety."
Paul: "I'll f**king kill myself." He has a panic attack. Ben has him breathe into a paper bag.
Ben, himself as a panic attack, grabs the bag from Paul and uses it himself: "I'm grieving. It's a process." Ben pops a pill which he tells Paul is "Echinacea." (0:40)

Ben takes more pills, begins to slur his speech. Paul tells him, "You sound like a f**kng retard." (0:42)

Laura tells Ben, "You need to be grieving for your father."
Ben: "I became a therapist because he was a therapist." (0:45)

Director (?) Raoul apologizes to Paul, "It's a nervous defense mechanism."(0:50)

Gangster Masiello asks Ben, "You the shrink taking care of Paul Vitti?"
Ben: "Yes. I am."
Eddie: "So's he nuts or what?"
Ben: "I'm sorry. I don't discuss my patients cases with anyone."
Eddie: "Discuss it."
Ben: "He's suffering from a chronic anxiety antisocial personality disorder sociopathy." (0:53)

Ben tells Paul, "You passive-aggressively arrange for me to look like a fool." He pops a few more pills.
Paul: What're you doing, self-medicating again?" (1:02)

Laura tells Ben, "A few days ago you weren't even sure you were still going to be a therapist." (1:09)

Paul comforts Ben when he has another panic attack. (1:20)

Ben and Paul cry together about their father's deaths. (1:21)

Ben attacks Eddie when he threatens Paul with a revolver: "That's what I hate about you f**king sociopaths... You antisocial misfit piece of sh*t. This time you f**ked with the wrong shrink." As Ben points his revolver at Eddie he says, "This session is over." (1:22)
One gangster asks another, "What's a sociopath?" (1:23)

On the bus a gangster tells Ben, "You're one tough shrink." (1:25)

Been tells Paul, "You're grieving, Paul." In unison they say, "It's a process." Paul tells Ben, "You give'm a little psychology, then you beat'm up." (1:28)

Bereavement | boundaries | Brief Psychotic Disorder | catatonia | chlorpromazine | cocaine | Sigmund Freud | intermetamorphosis | malingering | panic attack | psychiatrist | psychological testing | psychotherapist | psychotherapy | Schizophreniform Disorder | self-medication

Like Water for Chocolate

Wake for Juan, Elena's husband. (0:04)

Tita at maid Nacha's grave marker. (0:22)

Tita learns her young nephew Roberto has died. (0:45)

Elena tells Chencha, "Let her go to the crazy house." Dr. John Brown takes her to the psychiatric hospital. A boy outside asks, "Is she crazy?" (0:47)

Elena has lost her appetite. (0:49)

Narrator referring to Tita: "Above all she never wanted to speak again." (0:50)

Narrator, as Dr. Brown enters Tita's room with a bowl of broth, followed by Chencha: "Broths can cure any type of illness, physical or mental." Tita resumes talking. (0:54)

Tita at the burial of her mother's body. (0:58)

After her lover Pedro dies Tita eats matches to start a fire so she can join him in death. (1:41)

Bereavement | mutism | psychiatric hospital | suicide

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My Own Love Song

Ex-fireman Joey stutters and talks to ghosts. (0:10)

Joey goes berserk and wrecks Jane's house before he is taken to the hospital. (0:13)

Men appear at Jane's door: "I'm Dr. Clark from the Marshall County psychiatric hospital..."
Cop: "Your patient is clearly a danger to himself and others." (0:18)

Joey asserts, "I ain't gonna be sedated anymore... I need to know if I'm the only one hears these voices." (0:20)

Jane's son Devon tells a girl, referring to his father, "He died when I was three." Jane tells her friend Billie about the loss of her mother, "When she passed away I guess I went crazy." (0:46)

Jane tells Billie about meeting Joey "when they put me in the psych ward... There's a fire in the subdivision where Joey's family lived. He saw his parents and his sister and his little niece die." (0:48)

Singer Caldwell tells Jane, Joey and Billie, "I gotta tell you there's something special about this cake. It can make you feel..." The cake appears to produce a psychedelic effect. (0:52)

Joey hallucinates angels flying around the moon, stutters as he talks with Billie. (1:18)

Bereavement | hallucination | psychedelic | PTSD | Stuttering

Leprechaun in the Hood

#leprechaunhood

Gangster Mack lights a joint and shares with Leprechaun. (0:23)

Transexual Fontaine, cross-dressed, accepts cash as she says, "You know every little bit helps so Miss Fontaine get her little operation." (0:36)

Fontaine cross-dressed. (0:40, 0:41, 0:42)

Leprechaun smokes a joint. (1:10)

Singer Butch shows singer Postmaster a joint. "This weed got four leaf clovers." (1:15)

Butch tells Postmaster, "He got them zombie hos hypnotizin' people."
Buch: "We gotta get in there, get him stoned... run like hell while he's still trippin'."
Butch and Postmaster, cross-dressed, apply makeup. (1:15)

Zombie girls share a joint. 1:17

Butch lights a joint for Leprechaun. He smokes then nods off. (1:18)

Leprechaun calls Postmaster a "cross-dressin' imposter." (1:23)

cannabis | cross-dressing | Gender Identity Disorder | joint | sex reassignment surgery

Sherlock Holmes: Murder by Decree

Spoiler alert!

Hookah in detective Holmes' flat. (0:42)

Funeral procession and memorial service with a bagpiper. (1:01)

Holmes, amnesic after a blow to the head, says to Dr. Watson, "I don't seem to be able to recall anything."
Watson: "I'm not surprised. You may have sustained a slight concussion." (1:07)

Watson tells Holmes of Annie Crook, "They took her to a hospital near Reading. It's more like an asylum... the poor woman is insane." (1:11)

Holmes and Watson find Annie in a crowed women's ward in the asylum. The asylum physician explains to them, "She hasn't spoken a word in six months." (1:14)

Holmes tells Watson, "They thought Annie Crook was hopelessly insane." (1:2)

Inspector Foxborough tells Holmes, "You're insane." (1:31)

Annie in the women's ward. (1:48)

Prime Minister Lord Salisbury tells Holmes, "Spivey is insane." (1:53)

Salisbury tells Holmes how Annie died: "She took her own life." (1:55)

Holmes' hookah. (1:57)

amnesia | Bereavement | (brain) concussion | hookah | insane | psychiatric hospital | suicide

8 Women

#8women

Spoiler alert!

Maid Louise finds patriarch Marcel apparently murdered in his room with a knife in his back triggering grief in the women. (0:10)

Marcel's sister-in-law Augustine threatens suicide by overdose of pills for her heart condition: "Okay. I'll take them all and you'll be rid of me." (0:18)

Augustine's mother Mamy tells Marcel's wife Gaby, "Your sister wants to take all her pills." (0:20)

Marcel's sister Pierrette tells the other women, "I was depressed." (0:44)

Gaby tells her daughter Suzon of the fate of her biological father, "He died." (0:59)

Having hit her mother over the head with a bottle (1:17) Gaby later tells her daughters, "Mamy is delirious." (1:24)

Catherine enters Marcel's bedroom. As she watches in horror he puts a pistol to his head and pulls the trigger. (1:42)

Bereavement | suicide

Love Happens

#lovehappens

A film about bereavement.

Inspirational speaker Burke talks to the audience about loss of loved ones. He tells how a coach who lost his brother came home after celebrating the end of a winning season, took his shotgun, "put it to his chin and pulled the trigger." (0:06)

Burke tells portrait photographer Jessica, "My wife died." He describes the motor vehicle accident that killed her. (0:08)

Symposium attendee Walter describes the death of his son to Burke. (0:12)

Burke confronts a woman as he signs her copy of his book: "Your cigarettes are more than just a habit. They're a denial mechanism. (0:25)

Attendees talk about their losses. Walter blames himself for the death of his son, tells how he avoids hardware stores. (0:36)

Burke, Eloise, and others share a hookah. (0:55)

Burke: "Funerals are an important ritual in the grieving process." He describes his wife's funeral. (1:00)

Alone atop the Space Needle Burke sees his wife followed by a replay of the accident that killed her. (1:03)

Burke talks to a "smaller session." Attendee Olivia says, "I think I'm coming to terms with some of my anger. I'm going to stop projecting it onto others." (1:05)

Burke tells Eloise, "Maybe you're the one who needs psychoanalysis." (1:23)

Burke admits to his audience that he was driving and felt responsible for his wife's death. His father-in-law confronts him that he never blamed Burke for his daughter's death. (1:32)

Bereavement | hookah | psychoanalysis | suicide

Equus

#equus

The film opens with psychiatrist Martin Dysart talking about Alan, the boy he will treat, and a horse: "...and turn them into grief... an overworked psychiatrist..." (0:01)

A series of scenes: In a psychiatric hospital recreation room Martin breaks up a fight among teen patients. He listens to a male patient on a couch in his office. He prevents a young man newly arrived with his mother from escaping admission. He attends a psychotherapy group. He eats lunch with young patients in the hospital cafeteria. In an examining room he performs a physical exam on a man on a table. He holds a punching bag for a young man. (0:04)

Psychiatrist (?) Hesther asks Martin to take on the case of a young man who blinded six horses. (0:06)

New patient Alan sings as Martin starts to interview him. (0:08)

Martin tells Alan, "This is not a luny bin... you'll be packed off to a mental hospital..." (0:10)

Martin describes his own violent dream. (0:12)

Martin interviews Alan's parents at their home. (0:14)

Alan awakens Martin who was sleeping in his office. Alan assumes a posture. (0:22)

Harry, owner of the horses Alan blinded, tells Martin of a girl who suffered a "breakdown." (0:40)

Martin listens to a tape Alan recorded alone. (0:46)

Alan beats himself with a wood coat hanger in his bedroom. (0:51)

Session in Martin's office. (0:53)

Martin hypnotizes Alan. (1:12)

Martin says of Equus: "He's calling me out of the black cave of the psyche." (1:26)

Alan's mother Dora talks to Martin about blaming of parents for chidrens' problems. (1:29 )

Alan predicts to Martin that he will "give me truth drugs." Martin plans Hesther to give Alan a placebo instead. (1:33)

Hesther tells Martin at dinner, "That's just pure old masochism." (1:37)

Martin tells Hesther, referring to Alan, "... and go off to the hospital to treat him for insanity." (1:39)

Alan watches television with other kids in the day room. A psychotherapy session. (1:42)

Alan swallows a pill after Martin tells him it is a truth drug. (1:45)

Martin injects Alan with a hypnotic and orders him to "sleep, sleep..." (2:10)

Martin struggles with what he can and should do for Alan, "Passion... can be destroyed by a doctor." Is it right for him to take Alan's pain away? (2:13)

group psychotherapy | hypnosis | narcosynthesis | placebo | placebo effect | psyche | psychiatric hospital | psychiatrist | psychotherapist | psychotherapy