Psychiatry Movies

A historical documentary documenting the rise, function, and abandonment of a 17 story building that once housed The Rochester Psychiatric Center. ...

A tour of the Swedish mental health history, via early psychiatry, lobotomy to the outpatient care of today. Caregivers, patients, doctors and...

Cut off from his loved ones due to the strict COVID-19 lockdown at the long-term care facility where he lives, a quadriplegic rabbi is filmed by his...

"Evocação de Barahona Fernandes" is a short documentary directed by José Barahona, focusing on his grandfather, the esteemed...

Kren's second film and the first he cut according to a strictly serial, sequence technique: in various frame sizes, the 48 portraits from the Szondi...

A solo show whose subject - the controversial Scottish psychiatrist Ronald David Laing - has largely faded from public view, starring an actor who...

It offers a nuanced look at life in the women's ward of a psychiatric clinic, where most patients have been convicted of a crime.

Formerly known as ‘multiple personality disorder’, dissociative identity disorder, the most common cause of which is severe childhood...

Lucy, a young woman comes back to her hometown to celebrate her newly appointed doctor of Psychiatry. Friends and old love finds her back, however...

A psychiatrist and his patient discuss their relationship in a snow-covered field.

A homeless man with schizophrenia slowly embraces antipsychotic medication under Hawaii's only willing psychiatrist and a court mandate, while a man...

An experimental vertical short-form fairytale about the Mouse Princess and the traps she has been in.

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and...

A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity, Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing...

In 1955, Albert Maysles traveled by motorcycle throughout Russia. During this trip, he shot what was to become his first film, 'Psychiatry in...

Sarah disguises herself as Ryan's psychiatrist to haunt his dreams while also presenting a helpful educational guide to therapy.

An actual patient, Gloria Szymanski, allowed herself to be filmed while engaged in therapy with three different therapists, distinguished by their...