Psychology Movies

The history of psychoanalysis is littered with the discarded psyches of the women whose diagnoses were key to the fame of the great masters. One such...

Andrea lives with a girl who looks after him but who forbids him to open a door in the house.

Interview with Jochen Girke, a retired East German Stasi agent, filmed March, 1990 to June, 1991. Questions explore his study of psychology for use as...

Living in a small rural town, with little available emotional help around her, a young woman returns for a visit to her therapist. She finally receive...

A storyteller tells about her stories.

This is a 50-minute, independently produced film that consists of 45 one-minute instances, each overflowing into the next in a gushing expression of c...

Short film by film school students about obsession, death and hate, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and his stories.

This animated film was utilized in a classic experiment in cognitive psychology. Subjects were requested to interpret the moving picture-film of about...

How do you learn to talk about death when you are a future doctor? Mathilde and Fabian will be entering a residency next year. I'm looking at the gest...

The man of the past...

In Their Hands follows the psychotherapy of vulnerable people, sometimes destroyed by acts of torture.Their speech deals with an inhuman past: they wa...

In Japan, a million young men have shut the door on real life. Almost one man in ten in his late teens and early twenties is refusing to leave his hom...

The work of Lev Vygotsky is increasingly cited as we reconsider the theory and practice of constructivist education. This program introduces the life,...

John, a baby who has never been without his parents, spends nine days in a nursery without them.

Narrated by Erikson's colleague, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, Ph.D. and Ruthie Mickles, Ph.D. Using archival materials and newly shot footage, this film i...

After losing both his parents Ralph struggles with a depression. A year later he decides to slowly reduce his medicines with the help of his psychiatr...

A series of eight moments captured over a single day in the Sussex village of Mayfield. From first light until night Daniel & Clara engage in a proces...