PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND CINEMA

Cinema, in any ot its many genres, is a large kaleidoskope of all those different personalities that are being studied carefully by psychologists. In films, we can find different ways of thinking and acting we identify with, admire or reject. In this magazine article we will examine closely personality disorders through films, since cinema shows an irresistible attraction to unusual disrupted personalities that do no fit to the usual patterns of behaviour. We will study fourteen of these personality disorders which have been brought to the big screen and we will comment their more distinctive features. We will also study the possibility of providing a use for them in the fields of Psychology, Teaching, History and Anthropology.