A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his...

Val has reached a place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness...

Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and...

Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find...

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness.

A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice...

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix...

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.