The wonderful movie, Lars and the Real Girl, explores the nature of Lars’ mental condition by analyzing his mental state, the causes of his actions, and factors that promote his healing. Lars, cripplingly shy young man, lives in the converted garage of a house that had belonged to his father. Throughout the film, Lars awkwardly tries to avoid any moment of connection or contact with the compassionate and good-hearted people in his minuscule Wisconsin town. With this in mind, Lars could be diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder. Moreover, from analyzing Lars’ mental condition, many red flags appear in his mental state, the causes of his actions, and the factors that lead to his healing. Many psychologists study Lars’ behavior and diagnose
The Shinning, a horror movie that was released in 1980, featured Jack Nicholson, as a writer who is left in charge of the Overlook hotel during the winter. During this time Jack began to developed schizophrenia among many other personality and mood disorders and attempts to murder his own family. After reviewing this film it became apparent that there was a mixture of accuracy and exaggeration of the development of schizophrenia. Jack had this disorder, but also had symptoms of other personality and mood disorders. For the sake of Hollywood the film did take schizophrenia to entirely new levels. Some of this hype was generated around Jack becoming a full fledge killer. The delusions that he suffered from were undeniably crazed and did have a central theme; however, they were induced by other substances. The themes that ran strong throughout this movie were persuasion. Jack was constantly told by his delusions that he needed to take control and steer his family in his own direction. When his family urged him to leave this hotel, it only generated more hostility and anxiety, which pushed the decline of his mental health.
Jacob would attend to his composition notebooks when he was watching Crime Busters. With a person who has Asperger’s Syndrome that have poor social interaction skills. Jacob was not able to look people in the eye or have a conversation with someone that was not about something he was fixated on, for example his fixation on forensic science. With performance patterns Jacob had habits, routines, rituals and roles with person, group, and population. For example he had a routine of going to the grocery store with his mother at 11:15 and a lady who passed out samples was there at the same time every day, one day they went and she was not there in her spot so Jacob had a meltdown in the store. Context and Environments are hard for people who have Asperger’s Syndrome. Jacob did not understand how cultural things would work; he believed that everything revolved around him because that is a part of Asperger’s Syndrome. (AOTA,
The film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, is a psychological thriller that was created in 1960. The main theme of this film revolves around psychological illnesses. The film focuses on the main character, Norman Bates, and his psychological problems which include a split personality, voyeurism, sadism, guilt and self-punishment, and anal fixation. Throughout the movie you can see Bates exhibit these traits at different points; however, some traits are not as clearly evident as others. This film takes an in-depth look at how someone who possesses a mental illness might behave or think.
However, this study reinforces Wahl’s findings by also suggesting a lack of understanding of the real experience of mental illness and instead putting focus the darker side of illness. The communication of primarily scientific information appears to me as a way of alienating the mentally ill from the wider population by making them seem more like patients than humans. Wahl analyses this idea further in chapter three of his book in which he looks at the physical presentation of the mentally ill. He notes that the mentally ill are often portrayed “recognizably different from others in both manner and appearance, that they stand out as deviant and bizarre”. He presents the example of Peter Lorre, a well known actor in the 1930-50s who was typecast as “deranged and obsessed men” in a number of films because of his appearance. After reading this, I was interested to see what others had said about this typecast. Film historian Philip Kemp describes Lorre as “Squat, stocky, round-faced, at once pitiable and terrifying, he seemed a textbook illustration of schizophrenia… Small wonder if he found himself cast as madmen and
And that is a rebellion, to adapt to societies views on what is and is not right or normal. This allows for a larger portion of the audience to understand that in his eyes he doesn’t have a disorder. It is only those in his surroundings that excite the negativity that he has towards these characteristics of his true self.
After viewing Lars and The Real Girl, it’s clear that Lars, a troubled young adult, has developed concerning issues throughout his life. After learning more of his past, the audience is able to piece together the reasons behind his complex behavior. His hurtful childhood experiences come back to haunt him in the form of mental illnesses as he struggles to function normally in his day to day life as an adult.
The client expressed having difficulties controlling his anger when involved in social interactions with other individuals. John has physically threatened harm to his older sister when they had an argument over how to split their father’s inherence settlement. Additionally, John relieved having thoughts about hurting others when his upset, mostly recently his housemates. The client stated that he has never had trouble with controlling his anger until a year ago. However, the client cannot identify what has changed over the last year that would change his temperament. John stated that when he mismanages his money and believes that people are disrespecting him or taking advantage of his kindness are triggers for his anger. When the client is angry, he thinks about suicide so he can “end it,” but he claims that they are “thoughts and I am not going to do it.” John states that his emotions are negatively affecting his relationships with family, friends, and housemates. He believes that his social life is important to him and that he wants to develop the skills in order to have healthy relationships.
...TSD, service connected, and I visualize this to be a extremely beneficial way into exploring the minds of the mentally ill. Although the use of Lindstroms ideology and specific techniques in treatment of mentally disabled is not used directly, even his findings can be beneficial in regards to what emotions are triggered with each stimulus. In my everyday life, I will heed Lindstrom’s indirect warnings of big brand name companies and their attempt to manipulate my buying behavior. I wont be tricked by brand loyalty, or product integration, nor will I let my senses get the best of me.
In the book Sybil, written by Flora Rheta Schreiber discuss the life story of Sybil Isabel Dorsett, who has developed 16 distinct personalities because of her childhood abuse. Sybil story became one of the most severe cases ever recorded with multiple personalities. Which is currently called Dissociative Identity Disorder in the current DSM-V. “Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a severe condition in which two or more distinct identities, or personality states, are present in—and alternately take control of—an individual. The person also experiences memory loss that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness” (Psychology Today, 2008, para 1). Sybil’s distinct sense of selves helped protect her from the trauma she experienced as a child. These selves was Ruthie Dorsett a toddler who never ages. Vanessa Gail Dorsett and Marcia Lynn Dorsett emerged at different times, but developed a close personal relationship with one another and utilize Sybil's body simultaneously. Mike Dorsett and Sid Dorsett are two male selves. Peggy Lou Baldwin an angry girl, who breaks windows when she angry. Peggy Ann Baldwin, often shy, fearful than angry. Mary Lucinda Saunders Dorsett, a maternal and thoughtful girl, Nancy Lou Ann Baldwin, who was interested in politics. Victoria Antoinette Scharleau, nickname Vicky, who had the traced Sybil’s sense of self. Clara Dorsett, who was very religious. Sybil Ann Dorsett, who was timid and nervous, Helen Dorsett, who was very afraid, but determined. Marjorie Dorsett, who was quick to laugh. The Blonde who was a nameless blond teenager, and last Sybil herself (Schreiber, 1995).
Schizophrenia is a disease that plagues many individuals today and though medications can help alleviate the symptoms there is no known cure for the illness. There are a multitude of representations of schizophrenia in the media. This paper will focus on A Beautiful Mind; a film that focuses on John Forbes Nash Jr. Nash was a mentally gifted individual. He attended Princeton and his mathematical work has changed society greatly. In the movie, Russell Crowe played John Nash in A Beautiful Mind. Throughout the movie Crowe did an amazing job depicting the multiple symptoms of schizophrenia. Within this paper I will focus on the positive symptoms, negative symptoms, positive hallucinations, effects of medication, and the time frame of the illness represented in the film.
The research uncovered numerous discoveries that affected the way I exhibited my research project outcome. The information I came by proposed that Stockholm syndrome is more common among females compared to males, as a result of a range of reasons; consequently I changed my outlook to the causes of Stockholm syndrome in females rather than focusing on both genders. The motives for this are conversed in my key findings below.
In the movie, Silver Linings Playbook, it all started with a man named Pat Solitano who had a mental disorder. He was recently released from a psychiatric hospital and now resides with his parents. He had lost his wife and his job and life just was not happening in his favor. His aim was to win back his wife, which happened to be quite difficult in his case. That is until he met this widowed woman named Tiffany Maxwell, who promised to help him reach out to his wife if he returned a favor and danced with her in a competition. Pat wrote letters to his wife and in turn Tiffany delivered them. We later find out that Tiffany was the one all along writing back to Pat and that she had fallen in love with him. Directly following the dance competition,
The movie "A Beautiful Mind" tells the story of Nobel Prize winner John Nash's struggle with schizophrenia. It follows his journey from the point where he is not even aware he has schizophrenia, to the point where Nash and his wife find a way to manage his condition. The movie provides a lot of information and insight into the psychological condition of schizophrenia, including information on the symptoms, the treatment and cures, the life for the individual and for the individual's family. The movie is effective at demonstrating various concepts related to schizophrenia, and provides an insight into the disease of schizophrenia.
Happiness, anger, depression, love, and hate, are all common human emotions that are either expressed, or ignored. In the reality struck movie, Ordinary People, the Jarrets family has a difficult time expressing these emotions, which causes much distress in everyone. After the tragic death of a son, parents, Beth and Calvin, do not address any feelings with each other. Moreover, they form a great void with their one surviving son, Conrad. With emotions overflowing and frequent miscommunication, all characters experience fathomless misery. The conflicts between Beth, Calvin, and Conrad could be resolved with necessary discussion and genuine listening to release the burdens placed upon them; however, the family’s tendency to respond to all dilemmas with “silence” or “violence,” results in hospitalizing actions and chaos.
Girl Interrupted is a film about a young woman, Susanna Kaysen, who voluntarily enters a psychiatric facility in Massachusetts. The purpose of this paper is to analyze a portrayal of psychiatric care in the 1960’s. The film is based on the memoirs of Susanna Kaysen and her experiences during an 18 month stay at a mental institution. During her visit, Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The film depicts psychiatric care, diagnoses, and treatments from a different era.