Hollywood's preoccupation with psychiatry goes back a long way and is showing no signs of abating any time soon. Here's a list of movies that deal with psychiatry on some level.
Now, Voyager (Bette Davis and Claude Rains)
The Seventh Veil (Ann Todd and James Mason....a favorite of the Maximalist)
Ordinary People (Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirch, Tim Hutton)
Girl Interrupted (Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie)
A Beautiful Mind (Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer)
Spellbound (Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Dali's fabulous art)
Prince of Tides (Barbra Steisand, Nick Nolte)
Suddenly Last Summer ( Montgomery Clift, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Jack Nicholson)
Dressed to Kill (Michael Caine)
The Snake Pit (Olivia DeHavilland)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Brando and Vivien Leigh)
Lilith (Jean Seberg, Warren Beatty, Gene Hackman)
Don Juan DeMarco (Brando, Johnny Depp)
Analyze This (Robert DeNiro, Billy Crystal)
The Three Faces of Eve (Joanne Woodward..if you believe in multiples and I don't)
Sybil (Sally Fields, ditto)
As Good as it Gets (Jack Nicholson)
Many Woody Allen Films have therapy scenes.
I'm sure I missed quite a few.
The point of the list is that psychiatric disorders make for interesting movies. When other specialties are featured the action is more often centered around the lives of the doctor or patient and the illness is just an excuse to examine feelings (depression, stress anxiety...psych again) or highlight the heroic expertise of the physician in the face of harrowing odds and all that blood. No one makes a movie about ulcers, pancreatitis, COPD or prostate surgery.
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