Okay, here's one for you movie experts out there:  I'm preparing a
school presentation on Somatoform Disorder: It is loosely defined as:
"Somatizing patients can range from the "worried well" - those without
disease who are sensive to and worry about bodily clues - to those
with an injury or disease who obsess about their symptoms". I need
film suggestions that I can use to illustrate this, and although this
is usually my type of question, I'm stuck.  Humorous or serious films
work.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 05 Mar 2006 20:23 PST

Have you seen "My Girl"? The character of Vada, who makes frequent
visits to the doctor, obsessed with the notion that she is suffering
from some obscure fatal illness, might meet your needs.

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 05 Mar 2006 20:41 PST

Perhaps "What About Bob?" with Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103241/

Here you go

Somatization and Somatoform Disorders in Cinema.
(some films overlap categories and a few inclusions are debatable)

Somatoform Disorder and Hypochondriasis:

Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Play It Again Sam and just about
any other Woody Allen film

The Odd Couple
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063374/

Joe Versus the Volcano
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099892/

Madagascar
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0351283/

Bandits
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219965/

Safe
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/

Poison Ivy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031466/

La Reine Margot
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110963/

Uptown Girls
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263757/

Amelie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/

Checking Out
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097052/

A Day at the Races
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028772/

Gold Diggers of 1937
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027686/

The Hypo-chondri-cat
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042584/

Innerspace
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031466/

Little Shop of Horrors
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054033/

Send Me No Flowers
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058571/

Up in Arms
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037420/


Conversion Disorders:

Agnes of God
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088683/

Captain newman MD
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056903/

Freud
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055998/

Hollywood Ending
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278823/

Home of the Brave
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041481/

Persona 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060827/

The Piano
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107822/

Tommy
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073812/

The Seventh Veil
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038924/

Sorry Wrong Number
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040823/

Twelve O'Clock High
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041996/


Body Dismorphic Disorders:

Cyrano de Bergerac
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099334/

Whole
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0429245/

Looks That Kill
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400609/