So who do you think did it best?

So who do you think did it best?
There’s a Canadian film called Clean, Shaven. It’s about schizophrenia. I don’t know if you’ve seen it or not, it’s not all that well known, but that’s a movie I frequently recommend when asked that question. Actually a recent film that was real popular was Silver Linings Playbook, and I thought it was a pretty accurate portrayal of what bipolar disorder looked like. Did you see The Hours? It’s a film about Virginia Woolf, and without question Virginia Woolf had bipolar disorder. I thought it did a really nice job of portraying what that looked like.

Do you think films have gotten better over the last few years in this regard?
I think they really have. I think Ron Howard did a remarkable job with A Beautiful Mind. He’s an amazing director. It’s a very sympathetic portrayal of John Nash, who was a brilliant man but, of course, it showed John Nash having visual hallucinations whereas most people with paranoid schizophrenia have auditory hallucinations. Ron Howard took some license and it’s much more creative and much more vivid and powerful to show visual hallucinations in a film medium.