12 Monkeys

Diagnosing an individual with a mental illness balances on a fine line between giving a life-long label and misdiagnosing. Mental illness is best viewed on a continuum allowing for a varying degree of severity. In the field, mental health professionals are faced with determining what signifies the appropriateness of diagnosing a mental illness. A professional’s judgment is impacted by their personal perceptions and observations, societies views and norms, and the patient’s history. The film, “How Mad Are You? A Search for Insanity” demonstrates the difficulties in distinguishing those who are mentally ill from those seen as healthy ( ). I will explore my reactions and thoughts regarding the participants’ experience as well as the mental health professionals. Additionally, I will share how this information is applicable to my future career in the field of social work.

“Sometimes the characters are not clinically insane but labeled such because that character does not follow the rules established by society, as seen in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Women were often “diagnosed” with mental illness labels because they did not follow the accepted gender role that society has defined.”

The objective of this paper is to relate the movie twelve angry men to the course book social psychology. The film is about twelve men who are on are deciding the fait of a young man who is accused of killing his father. In the jury room the discussions, reactions, and occurances that took place can relate to the course book (NAME HERE AND AUTHOR) in many ways. The conections that can me First off one major concept that was apparent through out the movie is prejudice which in its slef has three components. There is evidence of prejudice because of the attitudes, actions and thoughts that some of the jury members exhibit throughout there deliberation.

When it comes to apes, monkeys, gorillas, etc., in visual and literary works of art we really get both ends of the spectrum. We see them as childlike in Curious George and we also see them as loving and compassionate and very much a community in Tarzan. I wouldn’t count Tarzan as portraying them as advanced because they can verbally speak, just because of the fact that in the majority of Disney movies there is at least one talking animal. I would count Planet of the Apes though for showing them as advanced creatures. In Planet of the Apes you see them performing very human like tasks in a research facility like we saw in the video that was assigned this week. The conditions of the lab in the movie were quite awful though and opposite from

The movie continues and it is Jim’s first day in his new high school and he feels anxious. Buzz is the tormentor at the

James’s first change begins when he moves to Texas and becomes the lord of one of the greatest ranches in Texas. When James moves to Texas he has just gotten done with active duty military, and he has a hard time opening up to people. When he becomes a ranch hand for Jim Berlingham, he learns to open up to people and trust them. When James takes over the ranch his job changes from being a worker to a boss, “James, when

The movie “12 Angry Men” covers different negotiation and conflict resolutions. The communication is set in a jury room where people with different worldview are bargaining over the judgment of a murder case. Juror 8 is willing to stand alone with his vote “not guilty”. Trying to avoid the winner’s course, he demanded a conversation about the case despite the clear 11-1 vote on the guilt of the defendant. Juror 8 discredits his opponents’ arguments and uncovers their constraint thinking, he uncovering doubtful evidence, alienating hardliners and engaging in conversations. In the conversation it becomes obvious that not every juror bases his decision on the same facts, and

In the movie he used music to create suspense. Like when something bad was about to

Insanity, comes from the Latin word sanus, meaning healthy. Insane is meant to be the opposite, sick or of unsound mind. # In the court of law, the jury must prove that at the time of the crime, the defendant was not in a sane mind. The attorneys job is to prove without a doubt, that the defendant was not in control of their actions, at the time the crime was committed. Once this is done and the verdict is given, if found guilty by reason of insanity, the person is usually sent to a mental hospital, where treatment can be give. Once at the hospital the patient is then give therapy and even drugs if needed. At the time when the person and the doctors feel he/she are capable of going back into society, and when

The term sane has many different perspectives and is truly questioned in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. Sane in modern society is commonly known as the ability to have a sound mind, or not mentally ill. Although this book was written not too long ago, this definition of normality is insanely different. Nurse Ratched’s tyranny makes clarity of how “insane” the patients really are. Although the patients are considered abnormal, many of them could live on the outside world. Are they actually mentally-ill, or do they just not fit into the norm of society? Due to fear and lack of gut they choose to stay inside the institution. The difference between normality and insanity definitely has a distinct line between them. Sanity in

The sounds and music in this film are very realistic, and to the point. There is not anything abstract or out of place, and everything is very appropriate. The

An insane person would not comprehend that they were unstable. Only a rational person would realize that the brain is not functioning properly. An insane person doesn’t know they are irrational. The main characters continuously get mad at her husband, because "You see he does not believe I am sick,"(Perkins, 647). Her frustration with John proves that she was sane from the beginning.

There four main attributes on being insane, 1) Knowing reality from fantasy, 2) can or cannot manage his own affairs, 3) controllable/uncontrollable, and 4) knowing from right from wrong. To begin with, Mr.Smith didn’t know if he was in reality or fantasy. On page 55, “I heard

A horror classic in it’s own right, The Lost Boys (1987) is generally seen a classic 80’s horror movie, but if you look at the film in a different light you will notice that the film is a prime example of a male melodrama. Melodrama has been with cinema since it’s beginning, and defies genre, since it crosses over many different genres. This means that melodrama is similar to film noir, since both can be considered a mode or style. So what exactly makes a film like The Lost Boys a perfect example for male melodrama? There are many different reason, but the big three reason have to be the victimized male protagonist, the use of a location connected with innocence and the action packed finally.

“12 Monkeys” is a sci-fi movie set in a post-apocalyptic future in which humans live underground to scape a noxious virus that was supposedly released by an organization called 12 Monkeys. In this future, time travel has been invented, and the protagonist, James Cole is forced to go back in time to collect information about the virus.