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Thrills: Psychology & the Movies

The great psychological movies (and books) of all time: psychologistMichael Abruzzese and psychiatrist Marc Whaley explore this topic with Mindy Todd on The Point. Listeners add to the list of titles with calls and emails.

Here is a list of movies and books discussed on today's program:

Affliction

Deer Hunter

A Beautiful Mind

Silence of the Lambs

Blue Jasmin

Sybil

No Country for Old Men

The Others

The Sixth Sense

American Beauty

9 to 5

Til Death Us Do Part

Fisher King

Sarah’s Key

Vertigo

Rear Window

Diabolique

Ordinary People

Fearless

Blue Velvet

Girl at the End of the Lane

Winter’s Bone

Don’t Look Back

Wait Until Dark

The Uninvited

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

War

Catch-22

Frances

Blue Sky

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Psycho

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

As Good As it Gets

The Shining

Taxi Driver

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane

Fatal Attraction

Antone Fisher

The Prince of Tides

Sybil

The Three Faces of Eve

The Bell Jar

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

Memento

Anna Karenina

Girl Interrupted

Gia

Annie Hall

Gone With the Wind

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Mindy Todd is the host and producer of <i>The Point</i> on WCAI which examines critical issues for Cape Cod and the Islands. She brings more than 40 years of experience in radio and television to WCAI.