I honestly thought the girl Nora Green killed herself at the beginning, and Dr Mathis was either having nightmares about her or seeing her ghost all throughout the film. All of a sudden at the end they reveal she was alive the whole time until like 2 days before the final stage of the movie.

Much of the movie, she is helping a man called Alex, whose face has been severely damaged in some manner of accident and is later revealed to be the main bad guy who has an incestuous, possibly pedophilic relationship with his daughter who was Nora all along.

The movie, as I saw it, was basically like this: Dr Mathis is traumatized that her therapy sessions with Nora Green apparently failed with Nora killing herself, but not really killing herself, and only reluctantly takes on another trauma-heavy patient, Alex, while being haunted by Nora's ghost, or rather Nora herself since Nora apparently didn't die despite cutting her own throat.

At some point Nora breaks in and attacks her and she ends up killing Nora, for real this time, except not really for real, as she wakes up in a psychiatric hospital she had visited before where Nora had been, and is also under arrest. The psychiatric doctor guy shows her video from her home security system showing she didn't actually kill Nora, but her boyfriend Miles who burst in on her grabbing and shaking her because she was acting hysterical and he was like "CALM DOWN WHAT'S HAPPENING" until she stabbed him.

Mentioning Nora Green's case to the psychiatric doctor, it's revealed Nora told him that she killed her own father or something after sessions with Dr Mathis, and the doctor says she didn't kill her own father, and somehow Dr Mathis puts together that Alex with the Face is Nora's father. She then escapes the hospital and is kidnapped by Alex, who takes her to her home to torture her for supposedly messing up his incestuous relationship with Nora by making Nora go crazy and kill herself.

Dr Mathis then escapes, discovers Alex with the Face has also killed her own therapist and her friend, then she tries to jump out a window when Alex grabs her, and she grabs his face and tears off a huge chunk of his face skin.

Then she goes back in the house, and finds Alex sitting on the couch in the living room, apparently dead, with the huge chunk of his face missing. The movie then suddenly ends.

I have no idea what this twist ending was supposed to be that she was hallucinating killing Alex and ended up killing someone else, or not. If the twist ending was that Alex with the Face guy was the bad guy all along, it doesn't count as an ending because it happened while there was still like half an hour left in the movie. Then it just ended near the end, like they ran out of ideas or ran out of time.

Dr. Jane Mathis (Vinessa Shaw) is a post trauma therapist who has her patients face their trauma. In the case of Nora (India Eisley) she attempts suicide. Dr. Mathis undergoes therapy herself and gives up post trauma therapy until Alex (Kevin Rahm) comes along and insists on her. She agrees and his talks seem to be therapeutic to her. Dr. Mathis is bothered by dreams, night paralysis, and illusions...or are they? Something is going on.

The end of the feature becomes twisty in an unexpected way. This is about what one would expect from a Lifetime thriller.

Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

Clinical certainly isn't a bad film, it's just a little to predictable, and repetitive in parts. The story is pretty good, but as you learn more about the characters involved you begin unravelling the story quicker in your head, then the film does in real time. I liked the beginning, it was intriguing, and left me wondering what was going on, it lulls a little in the middle, and the ending was generally quite poor, despite some exciting scenes. The acting was pretty good, production values weren't bad. I can forgive many things, but one thing I hate is when a film gets a lazy ending, this certainly did, ambiguity is fine, but leaving all the questions unanswered isn't fine.

Not bad, but you'll forget it in a few days. 5/10