January 2013 ~ Psychology Movies

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Movies about Anorexia nervosa

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Anorexia nervosa, also known as simply Anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by refusal to maintain a healthy body weight and an obsessive fear of gaining weight. It is often coupled with a distorted self image which may be maintained by various cognitive biases that alter how the affected individual evaluates and thinks about her or his body, food and eating. Persons with anorexia nervosa continue to feel hunger, but deny themselves all but very small quantities of food. The average caloric intake of a person with anorexia nervosa is 600–800 calories per day, but there are extreme cases of complete self-starvation. It is a serious mental illness with a high incidence of comorbidity and the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder.

Anorexia most often has its onset in adolescence and is most prevalent among adolescent girls. While it can affect men and women of any age, race, and socioeconomic and cultural background, Anorexia nervosa occurs in females 10 times more than in males.

The term anorexia nervosa was established in 1873 by Sir William Gull, one of Queen Victoria's personal physicians. The term is of Greek origin: an- (ἀν-, prefix denoting negation) and orexis (ὄρεξις, "appetite"), thus meaning a lack of desire to eat.

Movies

The Best Little Girl in the World (1981) - Jennifer Jason Leig

Kate's Secret (1986) - A Lawyer

An Anorexic's Tale: The Brief Life of Catherine o Catherine (1988) - Catherine Dunbar.

The Karen Carpentenr Story (1989) - Cynthia Gibb as Karen Carpenter.

For the love of Nancy (1994) - Tracy Gold as Nancy Walsh.

301, 302 (1995) - Eum-jin and Sin-Hye.

Dying to be Perfect: the Ellen Hart Pena Story - Crystal Bernard as Ellen Hart Pena

When Friendship Kills (1996) - Lexi and Jennifer.

Perfect Body (1997) - Amy Jo Johnson as Andie.

A Girl is a Girl (1999) - Trevor and Lisa.

Slender Existence (2000)

Sharing the Secret (2000)- Alison Lohman

Dying to Dance (2001) - Dancer

Hunger Point (2003)- Mother and daugther

Craving -

Maybe (2003)

Briciole (2005) - Sandra

Malos hábitos (2007)

Black Swan (2010) - Natalie Portman

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T.V. Series

Boston Public (2002)
Boston Legal (2006)

From Wikipedia

Movies about Autism and Aspergers

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Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood. It is one of three recognized disorders in the autism spectrum (ASDs), the other two being Asperger syndrome, which lacks delays in cognitive development and language, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (commonly abbreviated as PDD-NOS), which is diagnosed when the full set of criteria for autism or Asperger syndrome are not met

Movies

Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love (1979)

The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)

Rain Man (1988)

House of Cards (1993)

Mercury Rising (1998)

Miracle Run (2004)

Marathon (2005)

Mozart and the Whale (2005)

Sueño de una noche de invierno (2005)

After Thomas (2006)

Snow Cake (2006)

The Black Balloon (2008)

Temple Gradin (2010)

For Childrens

The Transporters (2006)

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Movies about Alcoholism

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Alcoholism is the addiction to or dependency upon drinking excessive amounts of alcoholic beverages. Since the late twentieth century it has been considered an addictive disorder. It is characterized by compulsive and uncontrolled consumption of alcohol, usually to the detriment of the drinker's health, relationships, and social standing. Like other drug addictions, alcoholism is medically defined as a treatable disease. The term alcoholism is widely used, and was first coined in 1849 by Magnus Huss, but in medicine the term was replaced by the concepts of "alcohol abuse" and "alcohol dependence" in the 1980s DSM III. (The term alcohol dependence is sometimes used as a synonym for alcoholism, sometimes in a narrower sense.) Similarly in 1979 an expert World Health Organisation committee disfavoured the use of "alcoholism" as a diagnostic entity, preferring the category of "alcohol dependence syndrome". In the 19th and early 20th centuries, alcohol dependence was called dipsomania before the term "alcoholism" replaced it.

Movies

The Lost Weekend (1945) -