Theme: Psychiatry

Psychiatry and Psychology concerns with the practice of mental health. A psychiatrist is someone who deals with mental health medically, while a psychologist deals with such through therapy and analysis. Discussions of people with mental health issues in genre cinema are found under Disturbed Psychology. Asylums concerns facilities to house the insane and Sinister Psychiatrists deals with disturbed members of the psychiatric fraternity. This concerns the actual practice of Psychiatry and Psychology as it appears in fantastic cinema.

A number of horror films are concerned with barbaric treatments afforded to the mentally ill, particularly during the 19th Century. There are also a number of murder mysteries set around psychological practices and encounter groups.

There are a number of films about new and advanced methods for dealing with the mentally ill, including devices that allow a psychiatrist to enter the dream terrain of a patient. Some horror films concern nightmare techniques being applied or exotic treatments for fears. A number of other films concern psychiatrists trying to deal with patients that claim to be aliens or have psychic powers.