The 14 best PSYCHOLOGICAL FILMS

When analyzing the relationship created over the years between cinema and psychology, it is discovered that it is deeply rooted, archaic, linked by a two-way relationship, since psychology has provided cinema with an enormous amount of stimuli, without which it probably would not have become a powerful instrument of media communication, and vice versa, cinema has allowed psychology to make itself known to the general public, influencing instead, also the social vision of the Mental illness.

In this Psychology-Online article we will see together some of the best psychological movies. First we will see films on psychology and psychological theories, then films of experiments psychological and social, psychological thrillers, and, finally, films about psychological disorders or mental disabilities.

Index

1. A dangerous method
2. Hysteria
3. Origin (Inception)
4. Inside out
5. The experiment
6. The wave (Die welle)
7. The hole
8. Blue Jasmine - Depression and Bipolar Disorders
9. A beautiful mind - Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders
10. Shame: Guilty Desires - Hypersexuality and Personality Disorders
11. The Sniper (American Sniper) - Post Traumatic Stress
12. Adam - Asperger's Syndrome
13. I am Sam (I am Sam) - Intellectual Disability
14. Rain man - Autism

We started with the movies about psychology and psychological theories. On the eve of the First World War, Zurich and Vienna are the scene of a murky history of exciting discoveries in new territories of sexuality and intellect. Inspired by true events, A Dangerous Method looks at the turbulent relationship between the young psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, your mentor Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, the beautiful, tormented young woman who comes between them. Also involved in the plot is Otto Gross, a patient prone to depravity and determined to go beyond the limits of common morality. In this exploration of sensuality, ambition and deception set the scene for the crucial moment when Jung, Freud and Sabina meet and part, forever changing the course of modern thought.

Hysteria is without a doubt one of the best psychological films. London 1880: the young Mortimer Granville is a doctor who fights for new scientific discoveries go to outpatient clinics and hospitals run by old doctors faithful to erroneous convictions and obsolete. Looking for a new job after the umpteenth layoff, he finds it at Dr. Dalrymple, who specializes in the "manual" care of the hysteria that afflicts much of the ladies of London and it is manifested variously with sadness, irritability, frequent crying or irrepressible anger.

In love with Dalrymple's second daughter, Emily, and opposes the first-born Charlotte, who would like to be devoted to more serious illnesses, Mortimer he will literally find himself in the hands of the idea of ​​the century, during a visit to his friend and benefactor Edmund, a gadget enthusiast electrical

Another of the best psychological movies to think about. Dom Cobb possesses a special quality: he is capable of insert yourself into the dreams of others to extract the secrets hidden deep within the subconscious. He contacts Saito, a powerful Japanese-born industrialist, who asks him to try the opposite operation. She should not extract hidden thoughts, but insert an idea that is shaved in the mind of a person. This is Robert Fischer Jr. who, upon the death of the elderly and dictatorial father, will have to convince himself that the only thing he can do is destroy the inherited empire. Saito will then have a free field. In return, he will offer Cobb the chance to return to the United States where wanted for murder. Cobb accepts and allows himself to be accompanied by a team that includes the young aria ne, an architect very skilled in the construction of virtual spaces.

Riley is 11 years old and has a happy life. Divided between her friend and two adorable parents, she grows along with her emotions that advise her, encourage her, contain her, make her impatient, sadden her, annoy her ... Inside his head and behind the buttons on the emotional console governs Joy, always positive and enterprising, gets impatient Go to, always ready for the fight, is disturbed Afraid, always scared and handicapped, he imagines Sadness, always sad and suspicious, curls her nose Disgust, always disgusted and unhappy.

Moving from Minnesota to San Francisco, Riley and his parents try to adjust to his new life. The school debut and the lost moving truck in Texas, however, put your emotions to the test. The story takes place between various emotions, especially: Sadness and Joy, the first decided to participate in Riley's emotional changes, the second determined to guarantee her happiness imperturbable. But life is never that simple.

Inside Out is one of the best psycho-logical films for children and adults, to watch as a family and learn about emotional management. In this article you will find more movies about emotions for children.

We continue with films of psychological and social experiments. For a handsome reward of $ 1,000 a day, the unemployed pacifist, Travis, decides to take part in a controversial two-week behavioral experiment that will attempt to simulate life within prison walls. Now, within a controlled environment, two hand-picked groups of twenty inmates and six guards must follow a simple set of ground rules, while high-tech cameras monitor the entire jail improvised. However, stripped of their civil rights and their identities, the volunteers soon they will be drawn into a dangerous and volatile situation, as sadistic guards begin to take extreme pleasure in enforcing their authority. Under those circumstances, Travis, or the rebellious prisoner 77, will have to explore his limits. How long can it last?

This psychological film is directed by Dennis Gansel, set in Germany and recounts the events of Professor Rainer Wenger, who, during a week of school workshops on the different types of government, he must face with his class the subject of autocracy, despite being a former rocker anarchist. He starts like this with his students a realistic experiment on the dictatorial regime, during which each one must respond solely and exclusively to the teacher's orders. Professor Wegner's class begins to dress uniformly, follows the hierarchical lines established by the teacher, and becomes increasingly compact and unified. This union and this feeling of belonging to a strong group will, however, become increasingly dangerous, fueling acts of vandalism and discrimination inside and outside the school environment. That is how the professor's innocent experiment loses control and becomes fearsome and out of control, more than Wenger could have imagined.

Another of the best psychological films of psychological and social experiments is The hole. The protagonist is a man who he wakes up in a gray cell and naked, also occupied by an elderly man. Beside him, a copy of "Don Quixote de la Tipina". Above and below them, other identical cells, each occupied by two people. In the center of the cell, a huge hole of which neither the beginning nor the end can be seen, through which each day, once a day, a platform full of food falls from the top, stopping for a few minutes at each flat. Whoever occupies the highest floors of that mysterious vertical prison, can abound in the implausible; the lower, less food is available. And for those who are below a certain level, there is nothing left. The old man seems to have passively accepted the workings of that place, while the newcomer is not resigned to the cruel absurdity of it.

Next we will watch movies about psychological disorders or mental disabilities.

Faced with the failure of her entire life, including her marriage to a wealthy businessman Hal, Jasmine an elegant and worldly woman. New Yorker, she decides to move into her sister Ginger's modest apartment in San Francisco, to try to give new meaning to your lifetime. Jasmine arrives in San Francisco in a very fragile psychological state, her mind is clouded by the effect of the cocktails of antidepressant medications. Although she is still able to maintain her purely aristocratic demeanor of hers, the truth is that Jasmine's emotional state is precarious and totally unstable, to the point that she can't even take care of herself. She can't stand Chili, Ginger's boyfriend whom she considers a "loser" or her ex-husband Augie.

Ginger, still acknowledging, but not fully understanding the psychological instability of her sister, suggests embarking on a career as an interior decorator, a job that could intuitively be at your fingertips height of him. Meanwhile, Jasmine doesn't like to take a job as a receptionist at a dental office where she attracts the unwanted attention of her boss, Dr. Flicker.

One of the best movies about psychological disorders is this one. The film is inspired by the life of John forbes nash jr. Of middle bourgeois origin, Forbes was born in a small town in West Virginia on June 13, 1928 and, for more than fifty years, was considered a myth in mathematical research environments. Thanks to his study of game theory, in the 1950s he became the rising star of the "new mathematics."

Little by little, victim of a serious schizophrenia, Nash sank into his own world convinced that his hallucinations were real. He spent several years in psychiatric hospitals, but during his absence, game theory took on a pivotal role in the fields of economics and business. In 1994, Nash regained full control of his life and resumed the search. That same year he received the Nobel Prize in Economics.

Dramatic psychological film directed by Steve Mcqueen, starring Brandon, a charming 35-year-old man years living in New York and with an almost perfect life, if not for a not inconsiderable detail: the man it issex addict. Brandon has a problem that prevents him from having a healthy love relationship and locks him in a spiral of various other addictions. There is nothing on the outside: Brandon has a fancy apartment, a good job, and is a charming man who has no difficulty in liking women. Inside of him though, he's one hell of a compulsive urges. It is even worse for Sissy sister, beautiful and sexy, but younger and more fragile, who passes from one affective addiction to another and is increasingly unable to take care of herself or control herself.

One of the best psychology movies is The Sniper. Chris Kyle is a young Texan, raised in a family of values ​​and devoted to his homeland. When one day he learned from television about the 1998 American embassy bombings, he decided enlist in the Navy. In the military field he qualifies for special training and thus becomes a US Navy SEAL sniper, also the source of his hunting experience together with his father since he was a child.

One night he meets a young woman, Taya, in a bar: the spark between the two of them jumps and it isn't long before they get married. In 2004, Kyle leaves for his first round of combat in Iraq, specifically in Falluja, where he has the task of protecting his companions. However, it is not an easy mission, not from an emotional point of view: the first two victims of him are a boy and his mother, who are about to attack a Marine patrol with a Russian grenade. Kyle is visibly upset from experience, but his reputation as a skilled sniper spreads among the troops, later earning the nickname "Legend."

In this article you can see information about symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress.

Adam is a young electronics engineer who makes toys for a factory. His passion is astronomy. His destiny seems to be loneliness because he is affected by the Asperger syndrome. Is about a form of autism that inhibits the subject from understanding the true intentions of others beyond appearances. One day, in the laundry room, he meets Beth, a children's book writer who teaches at a school. There may be a two-part story. It is the case of Adam in which the two protagonists find themselves carrying many good reasons for not believing in the possibility of a relationship with the other.

The protagonist of the matter is Sam Dawson. Despite working daily in contact with clients, the man has a series of objective difficulties in maintaining equal relationships with people his age. Due to mental retardation, Sam actually has the intellectual capacity of a seven-year-old. Despite the hardships, the man raised her daughter Lucy Diamond and dedicated her entire life to her. With the help of her friends and her neighbor Annie Cassell, Lucy grows rapidly and quickly surpasses the intellectual level of her father. That's why Lucy teases a lot at school, but she never turns her back on Sam. During the celebration of her birthday, Sam is carried away by one of the irreverent children present, provoking the ire of the parents. Lucy is thus cut off from the social workers, but the girl wants to reunite with her beloved father as soon as possible. Determined to fight for custody of Lucy, Sam turns to attorney Rita Harris. The man progressively changes his attitude and everyone notices his progress, especially in the workplace.

To finish this list of the best psychology films could not be missed Rain man. Charlie Babbitt is a debt-ridden car salesman who, when his father dies, discovers that he is not the heir to the family fortune. On this occasion he also learned of the existence of Raymond, his older brother with autism, who is admitted to a psychiatric clinic in Wallbrook. Frustrated at the lack of inheritance and angry at being kept in ignorance of the existence of a brother, Charlie decides to kidnap Raymond to be able to somehow take the money and become his guardian. After the kidnapping, he proposes to the doctor treating Raymond that he take him to the clinic in exchange for half of his fortune.

In the wake of the doctor's refusal to become his accomplice, Charlie also loses the support of his girlfriend Susanna, who becomes very angry at the way she treats her poor brother. During the trip to Los Angeles, Charlie began to remember a strange character who hummed songs to him as a child and had suddenly disappeared from his life. When she realizes the Raymond's extraordinary ability to do the math, Charlie decides to take advantage of it to play in Las Vegas and win what he needs to get rid of debt permanently. It seems that Raymond presents the Savant syndrome with mathematical ability.

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