12 Movies You Didn’t Notice Were About Mental Illness
7. Every Batman Film Ever Made
Never let it be said that comic book-based characters are simplistic or one dimensional in fact any psychologist worth their salt would have a field day with them and Batman, alongside his many villains, are a shining example. Naturally, its much more evident in Batmans enemies. The Joker, who has actually been institutionalised for his problems, is the most obvious example and clearly a psychopath (amped up all the more by Heath Ledger in Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight). Two-Face is clearly in the throes of dissociative identity disorder, Anne Hathaways Catwoman might be a kleptomaniac rather than just a skilled thief and the Riddler could be suffering from anything from narcissistic personality disorder and OCD to autism. We could go on Then theres the man himself. Like so many comic book characters, heroes and villains alike, Batman is living a dual life and strangely enough suffers the same dissociative disorder as his Batman Forever nemesis Two-Face. His problems dont end there though: witnessing his parents murder left him with a pretty bad case of post-traumatic stress disorder, not to mention his curious bat phobia, explained in Nolans Batman Begins as the result of a childhood accident, which he seems to be dealing with in the form of some extreme aversion therapy.
