Bromden In The Movie One Flew Over The Tuckoo's N

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Running Header: Avoidant Personal Disorder Psychological Assessment of Chief Bromden from the movie “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest”: Avoidant Personal Disorder by Viktoria Kirichenko Psychology: Basic Processes of Behaviour To: Professor Sarah Farwell Conestoga College, 2014 Abstract This report will discuss one of the main characters of the movie “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest” – Chief Bromden, in detail to help better understand his mental health problems shown in the movie. We diagnosed him with an avoidant personal disorder, and in the report we will describe this disorder and its symptoms. We will relate these symptoms to Chief Bromden and discuss specific scenes which illustrate our diagnosis. We will also recommend …show more content…

Eventually, Chief reveals that he can talk and hear perfectly. Chief tries to protect McMurphy all the time, but eventually he fails to protect the man, and McMurphy finally returns to the ward as a lobotomized vegetable. Chief frees him from the physical prison of his body by smothering him with a pillow. Because of McMurphy, Chief finally has the courage to break free from the hospital and escapes through a window after breaking it the way McMurphy tried to. One of the articles indicates, that the core pathology of avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) centers on a keen sensitivity to interpersonal rejection, exquisite fears of humiliation and judgment, and accordingly, avoidance of social and interpersonal situations, especially when it involves new people or new situations (Wright A.G, Pincus A.L., 2014). We can see all these symptoms presented in the Chief’s behaviour, as he pretends to be deaf-mute for many years, tries to avoid other patients and especially McMurphy when he first got into the clinic. Patients diagnosed with avoidant personality disorder, according to Toshimasa Maruto (2012), are unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked. Chief Bromden definitely likes McMurphy, as Chief decided to disclose himself and started talking only in front of him. This movie scene shows how important McMurphy was to Bromden, and that he was accepted and …show more content…

We had a look at the information in the textbook regarding personal disorders in general. We used Conestoga Library database to find relevant and interesting articles for our report and explore diagnosis in depth. This was helpful to determine which mental health disorder Chief Bromden suffers from based on the symptoms he demonstrates. The information from the two articles confirmed and exposed the description of the disorder from the DSM-IV. After gathering and analyzing all the information, we watched the movie once again to make sure our diagnosis was

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