This summary was derived from several of the articles listed in the resource list, from the suggestions of our ADMSEP colleagues, and from our own personal experience. We have not personally reviewed all of the movies on the list, and suggest you view any film before choosing it for teaching purposes.
| Anxiety and Anxiety Disorders | Bipolar Disorder/Mania |
| Copycat (panic/agoraphobia) | Mr. Jones |
| As good as it gets (OCD) | Network |
| The touching tree (Childhood OCD) | Seven Percent Solution |
| Fourth of July (PTSD) | Captain Newman, MD |
| The Deer Hunter (PTSD) | Sophieís Choice |
| Ordinary People (PTSD) | Sheís So Lovely |
| Depression | Psychosis |
| Ordinary People | Shine |
| Faithful | I Never Promised You a Rose Garden |
| The Seventh Veil | Clean Shaven |
| The Shrike | Through a Glass Darkly |
| Itís a Wonderful Life (Adjustment disorder) | An Angel at my Table |
| The Wrong Man (Adjustment disorder) | Personal |
| Dissociative Disorders | Man Facing Southwest |
| The Three Faces of Eve | Madness of King George (Psychosis due to Porphyria) |
| Sybil | Conspiracy Theory |
| Delirium | |
| The Singing Detective | |
| Substance Abuse | |
| The Long Weekend (etoh) | The Days of Wine and Roses (etoh) |
| Barfly (etoh) | Basketball Diaries (opiates) |
| Kids (hallucinogens, rave scenes, etc.) | Loosing Isaiah (crack) |
| Reefer Madness | Under the Volcano |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Ironweed |
| The Man with the Golden Arm (heroin) | A Hatful of Rain (heroin) |
| Synanon (drug treatment) | The Boost (cocaine) |
| The 7 Percent Solution (cocaine induced mania) | Iím Dancing as Fast as I can (substance induced organic mental disorder) |
| Eating Disorders | |
| The Best Little Girl in the World (made for TV)-Anorexia | Kateís Secret (made for TV)-Bulemia |
| Personality Pathology | |
| Cluster A | Cluster B |
| Remains of the Day- Schizoid PD | Borderline PD |
| Taxi Driver-Schizotypal PD | Fatal Attraction |
| The Caine Mutiny- Paranoid PD | Play Misty for Me |
| The Treasure of Sierra Madre -Paranoid PD | Frances |
| After Hours | |
| Cluster C | Looking for Mr. Goodbar |
| Zelig-Avoidant PD | |
| Sophieís Choice-Dependent PD | Histrionic PD |
| The Odd Couple-OCPD | Bullets over Broadway |
| Gone with the Wind | |
| A Streetcare Named Desire | |
| Antisocial PD | |
| A Clockwork Orange | |
| Narcissism | Obsession |
| All that Jazz | Taxi Driver |
| Stardust Memories | Single White Female |
| Zelig | The King of Comedy |
| Jerry Maguire | Triumph of Will |
| Alfie | |
| Shampoo | Mental Retardation |
| American Gigolo | Charly |
| Citizen Kane | Best Boy |
| Lawrence of Arabia | Bill |
| Patton | Bill, On His Own |
| Family | Early Adult Issues |
| Ordinary People | Awakenings |
| The Field | The Graduate |
| Kramer vs Kramer | Spanking the Monkey |
| Diary of a Mad Housewife | |
| Betrayal | Latency and Adolescent Issues |
| Whoís Afraid of Virginia Woolfe | Stand by Me |
| The Stone Boy | Smooth Talk |
| The Great Santini | |
| Doctor/Patient Relationship | Boundary Violations |
| The Doctor | The Prince of Tides |
| Mr. Jones | |
| Idealized "Dr. Marvelous" Psychotherapy | |
| Spellbound | Suddenly Last Summer |
| The Snake Pit | Captain Newman, MD |
| The Three Faces of Eve | Ordinary People |
| Good Will Hunting |