Personality Disorders

Now I’m no clinician, but I do have an insatiable curiosity regarding human behavior in all its forms, so I’ve seen and read my fair share of explorations of the darker side of humanity. So that said, following are excellent illustrations of people whose sense of entitlement far surpasses the ordinary wounded-human foibles, and the unfortunates in their space…

Examples of Personality Disorders in Film

• An American Crime
• Basic Instinct
• Body Heat
• Citizen X
• Cruel Intentions
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Death and the Maiden
• Extremeties
• Fargo
• Fatal Attraction
• Notes on a Scandal
• Party Monster
• Red Dragon
• Runaway Train
• Something Borrowed
• The Bounty
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Squid and the Whale
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• The Woodsman
• Valmont
• Wall Street
• White Oleander

What are some of your favorite examples, and why? Please do share ~