Assignment 1 - Movie and Psychological Disorders Assignment One-Psychopathology
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Assignment 1 - Movie and Psychological Disorders Assignment One-Psychopathology in film
This project gives you your first opportunity to apply the concepts of diagnosis and assessment with an individual depicted in film. The main character in the films should have fairly clear-cut diagnoses. (This assignment has a detailed handout that includes a description of how to organize the paper and its elements (1. presenting problem, 2. etiology, 3. diagnosis and 4. treatment or possible treatment and 5. why it will work. List resources. 20 points each. Select a movie that includes a psychological disorder. Select the BEST one that allows you to thoroughly answer each component. Be thorough in each segment.
Some some suggested movies - American Sniper, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest. Call Me Crazy. Frankie & Alice. A Beautiful Mind. The Voices. Silence of the Lambs. Shuttered Island. Misery. You can select a movie that you think will work for this assignment. Movie Possibilities What's Eating Albert Grape? Silver Linings Playbook. Frankie and Alice. Falling Down. Psycho. Silence of the Lamb. Shutter Island. Black Swan. The Bourne Identity. SybilThe Lazarus Project. Mr. Brooks. Side Effects
Explanation / Answer
Note: This response is in UK English, please paste the response to MS Word and you should be able to spot discrepancies easily. You may elaborate the answer based on personal views or your classwork if necessary. I have chosen the film “Secret Window” that stars Johnny Depp and is written by Stephen King.
(Answer) In the film “Secret Window”, Stephen King has written about a man named Mort. He is a divorced writer who lives in a cottage near the wood that he had purchased when he was still married to his wife. His supposedly happy marriage ended in a divorce when he caught his wife in bed with another man at a local motel. His wife went on to have a happy life with her new partner while Mort still lived alone and suffered from writer’s block for extended periods.
The symptoms: Mort is always tired and lethargic during his waking hours.
Mort has suffered from the trauma of confronting his wife while in bed with another man.
Mort has a nemesis (a man who accuses him of plagiarism). This man frequently comes to Mort’s doorstep and harasses Mort. However, Mort’s close peers and lawyers have never really seen this man.
Dissociative Identity Disorder: In most cases, an individual suffering from DID will have dormant traits until a personal traumatic incident such as shock or abuses were to trigger it.
Furthermore, these patients spend their sleeping hours as another personality, affecting their time of REM sleep. This would result in the physical strain that causes them to be lethargic, irritable or sleep deprived at the times that they spend being other personalities/personality.
Stephen King’s title “Secret Window” refers to the window that leads to another personality. It is a “secret” simply because Mort himself did not know that he was another person.
Treatment: Psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy are both equally required to help curb the symptoms. Unfortunately, this disease cannot be cured. Since there is no real cure, the symptoms of this disorder are stabilized by suppressants.
(Sources: Apollo Hospitals page)