Calgary Psychologist

Therapy & Assessments

$165/hr
(50 minutes)


Office Hours

Monday
1pm - 9pm
Wednesday
9am - 5pm


Location

Lower Mt. Royal
1813 - 8th St. SW
Call 403.690.2663




Movies with Psychological Themes




·Autism/Developmental Disorders

  • Rain Man (Dustin Hoffman, 1988)
  • Mercury Rising (Miko Hughes)
  • Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks, 1994)
  • Nell (Jodie Foster, 1994)
  • Benny and Joon (Mary Stewart Masterson, 1993)
  • Bill (Mickey Rooney)
  • I Am Sam (Sean Penn)

·Psychoses, Paranoia, Schizophrenia

  • Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
  • Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
  • Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
  • King of Hearts (Philippe de Broca, 1967)
  • They Might Be Giants (Anthony Harvey, 1971)
  • Crumb
  • 12 Monkeys
  • I Shot Andy Warhol (first break psychotic)
  • Breaking the Waves (psychotic spectrum)
  • Angel Baby
  • A Beautiful Mind (Russell Crowe, 2001)
  • Harvey (Jimmy Stewart)
  • K-Pax (Kevin Spacey)

·Substance Use

  • The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder, 1945)
  • Come Back, Little Sheba (Daniel Mann, 1952)
  • Days of Wine and Roses (Blake Edwards, 1962)
  • Drugstore Cowboy (Gus Van Sant, Jr., 1989)
  • Barfly
  • Long Days Journey Into Night
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Train Spotting
  • When A Man Loves A Woman
  • Once Were Warriors (Alcohol and Domestic Violence and Rape)
  • Clean and Sober
  • Postcards from the Edge

·Phobias

  • Vertigo (James Stewart and Kim Novak)
  • Copycat (Sigourney Weaver)
  • High Anxiety (Mel Brooks- spoof on Vertigo)

·Post-Traumatic Stress

  • The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
  • Gallipoli (Peter Weir, 1981)
  • Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen, 1982)
  • Two Women (Vittorio De Sica, 1961)
  • Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
  • The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe, 1984)
  • The Pawnbroker (Sidney Lumet, 1965)
  • Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1971)
  • Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam (Bill Couturie, 1988)
  • Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
  • Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986)
  • Post-Traumatic Stress
  • Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrik, 1987)
  • Born On The Fourth Of July (Oliver Stone, 1989)
  • The Deer Hunter (Michael Cimino, 1978)
  • Coming Home (Hal Ashby, 1978)
  • Heaven and Earth (Oliver Stone, 1993)
  • The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959)
  • Fearless (1994)
  • Forbidden Games (Child PTSD)
  • Jacob's Ladder
  • Rambo

·Rape/Trauma/Retaliation
 Identifying With the Aggressor

  • Extremities
  • Death and the Maiden
  • Dead Man Walking (Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon)
  • Monster (Charlize Theron)

·Dissociation / Dissociative Disorders

  • Closet Land
  • The Three Faces of Eve
  • Sybil (Sally Field, 1976)
  • Fight Club (Edward Norton and Brad Pitt, 1999)
  • Identity (John Cusack, 2003)
  • Primal Fear (Richard Gere and Laura Linney)
  • Color of Night (Bruce Willis, Jane March)
  • Never Talk To Strangers (Antonio Banderas and Rebecca DeMornay)
  • Psycho (Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh)
  • Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase (Shelley Long)
  • Blackout (Keith Carradine)

·Obsessive-Compulsive

  • As Good As It Gets (Jack Nicholsen)

·Depression / Suicidality

  • Better Off Dead (John Cusack)
  • Ordinary People (Timothy Hutton)
  • Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (Dave Foley- particularly about a anti-depressant med)
  • Deep Blue

·Bipolar

  • Mr. Jones (Richard Gere, 1993)
  • Mad Love (Drew Barrymore)

·Forensic

  • Silence of the Lambs
  • Copycat
  • Seven

·Personality Disorders

  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962)
  • In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967)
  • Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1969)
  • Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975)
  • Turtle Diary
  • Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
  • House of Games (David Marmet, 1987)

·Personality Disorders - Borderline

  • Single, White Female
  • Betty Blue
  • Riding in Cars With Boys (Drew Barrymore)
  • Mommie Dearest
  • Fatal Attraction (Glenn Close)

·Personality Disorders - Narcissistic

  • Two Weeks Notice (Hugh Grant)
  • What Women Want (Mel Gibson)
  • About A Boy (Hugh Grant)

·Personality Disorders - Antisocial

  • Dead Man Walking (Sean Penn)
  • Seven
  • Pacific Heights
  • Wild Things (Neve Campbell)
  • Cruel Intentions (Sarah Michelle Geller)
  • Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins)

·Personality Disorders - Histrionic

  • Postcards From the Edge (Shirley MacLain)
  • Blue Sky

·Personality Disorders - Schizoid

  • Seven

·Personality Disorders - Obsessional/Dependent

  • Boxing Helena

·Bereavement

  • Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1973)
  • Blue (1993)

·Despair/Breakdown

  • Camille Claudel

·Amnesia

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Kate Winslet and Jim Carey, 2004)
  • 50 First Dates (Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler, 2004)
  • Memento (Guy Pearce, 2000)
  • Regarding Henry (Harrison Ford and Annette Bening, 1991)

·Medical Illness

  • Life as a House (Kevin Kline, 2001)
  • Philadelphia (Tom Hanks, 1993)
  • Lorenzo's Oil (Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon, 1992)

·Dementia

  • Iris (Judi Dench, 2001)

·Sexuality

  • Blue Velvet
  • Equus
  • Henry and June
  • Chasing Amy
  • The Full Monty
  • If These Walls Could Talk, II
  • Trans America
  • Tough Guise
  • Kissing Jessica Stein
  • My Beautiful Launderette
  • A Beautiful Thing
  • Desert Heart
  • Maurice
  • Jeffrey
  • Love, Valour, Compassion
  • My Own Private Idaho
  • Torch Song Trilogy
  • Long Time Companion
  • Children's Hour
  • In and Out
  • The Sum Of Us
  • The Women
  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  • The Crying Game
  • Brokeback Mountain
  • Victor/Victoria
  • Threesome

·Paraphilias

  • Sex, Lies, Videotapes (James Spader and Andie MacDowell, 1989)
  • 9 ½ Weeks (Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger, 1986)
  • American Beauty (Hebephilia)

·Couples

  • Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1951)
  • Knife in the Water (Roman Polanski, 1961)
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols, 1966)
  • Swept Away…(Lina Wertmuller, 1975)

·Folie a Deux / Enmeshment

  • Heavenly Creatures
  • Vincent and Theo

·Infidelity

  • The Good Girl
  • Sliding Doors

·Domestic Violence

  • Sleeping With The Enemy
  • Practical Magic
  • Twin Peaks (television show)
  • Fried Green Tomatoes
  • The Burning Bed (Farah Fawcett)

·Families

  • A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
  • Ordinary People (Robert Redford, 1980)
  • The Great Santini
  • Long Days Journey Into Night
  • My Favorite Season
  • Eve's Bayou (1997)
  • The Royal Tennanbaums

·Adolescence

  • Dead Poets Society
  • The Breakfast Club

·Incest

  • Spanking the Monkey
  • Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle, 1971)
  • The Color Purple
  • Nuts
  • Olivier Olivier
  • Sister My Sister
  • The Cement Garden

·Child Abuse

  • Mommie Dearest
  • The Burning Bed (Farah Fawcett)
  • Devil in the Flesh

·Cultural - Chinese

  • To Live
  • Double Happiness

·Cultural - Japanese

  • Memoirs of a Geisha

·Cultural - Italian

  • Mama Roma
  • Moonstruck

·Cultural - African/African-American

  • To Sleep With Anger
  • The Color Purple
  • To Kill A Mockingbird
  • American History X (Racism)

·Cultural - Latin / Latin American

  • My Family
  • A Day Without A Mexican
  • Real Women Have Curves

·Cultural - Indian

  • Bend It Like Beckham
  • Bride and Prejudice

·Group Dynamics

  • Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1968)
  • 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1968)
  • The Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich, 1966)

·Treatment Systems

  • Charly (Ralph Nelson, 1968)
  • The Hospital (Arthur Hiller, 1971)
  • One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
  • Awakenings
  • Asylum
  • About A Girl
  • Patch Adams (Robin Williams)

·Kleinian Theory / Abandonment

  • Alien (1979)

·Funny

  • What About Bob
  • Crazy People
  • Analyze This
  • Analyze That
  • Anger Management