Awakenings Movie Psychology

Miracle, released in 2004, based on the 1980 USA hockey team. This movie is filled with many sports psychology themes; commitment, motivation, confidence, teamwork , injury, goal setting and mental toughness. Miracle is a true story based on the event of the “miracle” season of the 1980 US Olympic team had. Herb Brooks had the dream of coaching the U.S. Olympic team ever since he was cut from the 1960 U.S. Olympic team. Brooks' dream comes true, and he gets the coaching job in 1979.

Awakenings is a 1973 nonfiction book by Oliver Sacks later on in 1990 became a film directed by Penny Marshall. The movie is based on Oliver Sacks's memoir which tells the story of encephalitic lethargica survivors as they undergo treatment with Dr.Sacks. He treated his patients with the then-new drug L-DOPA which was being used to treat Parkinson’s disease. Dr.Sacks believed that the encephalitic lethargica patients had suffered from a form of Parkinson’s that was so advanced which caused them to freeze and become statue like.

D- The patient arrived on time for her session and reports being stable on dose and haven't used any illicit drugs. This writer advised the patient that this writer was in fact in receipt of missed phone call about coming to the session at 10:30 am rather than 10 am due to her mother in the process of selling the house. This writer addressed with the patient about letter from CHR from her counselor, Jade Bray stating about the patient non-compliance with her appointment due transportation barrier. According to the patient, she is going through hardship as her mother is no longer taking her to her appointment as the patient says, " She's tired of bringing me everyone, Charlene. She complains about bringing me here and does not understand why I can't even get a bottle...:Like c'mon. What do I have to do?" This writer explained to the patient about TEAM decision, at which the patient disagree with the decision. This writer asked the patient about her "judgement." According to the patient, she feels she is making judgement by not engaging any further altercation with patient at the clinic, dosing daily, coming to her counseling session, and trying to get help from Chrysalis for

The movie Awakenings is set in Bronx, New York during the 1960's. The movie is based on the life of neurologist Oliver Sacks, who discovered the effects of the drug L-Dopa on catatonic patients who survived the epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. The term "awakenings" can take many different forms including scientific and emotional. Because of that reason, the title "Awakenings" is significant and appropriate on many levels. The importance of the title is best shown in the awakening in Dr.Sayer's life and the hospital staff's attitudes towards the patients.

“In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you,” Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. In the film Awakeningsdirected by Penny Marshall, the characters grow and change in a remarkable way. Not only do the characters go through a huge transformation but the viewers do as well.

Michael, nicknamed Fresh is a 12-year old kid running drugs for gangsters. Because he is smart and honest, they respect him. Fresh lives with 11 other children in the spotless, orderly apartment of his aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess.   Fresh's sister is also a junkie who sleeps with the dealers who Fresh sells for.

In Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, she writes about a woman’s desire to find and live fully within her true self during the 1890s in Louisiana. The woman, Edna Pontellier, is trying to find herself in the masculine society of Louisiana, leading her to cause friction with friends, family and the Creole society. Edna begins to feel a change; she begins to feel like a whole person with wants, interests and desires. She learns that she is not comfortable with being a wife and mother. The imagery of the parrot in the cage in Chopin’s novel is being compared to Edna because it represents Edna’s unspoken feelings and imprisonment. The sense of unspoken feelings and imprisonment of Edna causes her to put her own needs before her family. As Edna finds herself trying to satisfy the Creole society, she begins to feel isolated and confused. Through Edna’s trace of freedom, she begins to undergo a transformation of self, slowly straying away from society, and taking control over her own actions and beliefs. Through obstacles to Edna’s freedom, she learns that she does have control of her own body. The symbolism of the birds and the sea is used to symbolize Edna’s struggle for independence.

Barry supports his claim first by recognizing the weakest points the argument has had throughout its entire existence: safety. By talking about safety first, he establishes his consideration of his audience. Secondly, he follows with presenting the usefulness hidden within the substance and its medical purposes. Barry establishes both grounds with careful organization in order to achieve the trust and support of readers from both sides.

The movie Awakenings is a true story about a neurologist played by Robin Williams, at a hospital in the Bronx, who discovers a drug L-Dopa in which helps temporarily with unresponsive patients. Leonard Lowe who is played by Robert Deniro and the other patients are given this new age drug and are forced to adapt to the world around them that has been changing ever since they began to be catatonic.

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is an artfully written romance novel that takes place during the nineteenth century off the coast of Louisiana. The main character- Edna Pontellier- is put into what would be considered typical circumstances: being viewed as property by her husband, fills her empty days with social visits and the arts, and is a mother. Besides these regularities, Edna Pontellier is unique for her time period. Edna does not necessarily love her children, even views them as a hindrance, nor does she truly love her husband. Edna likes to be her own individual as if born in the wrong century, she strives for the freedoms that her society and life situation do not make available to her. Robert Lebrun- a dear friend of Edna- is the one person that she truly loves in her life. Unfortunately, while Robert’s emotions match Edna’s, he does not know how to properly act in response to them. Conflicted, Robert runs away to Mexico in order to avoid confronting his feelings and leaves Edna lost and heartbroken. During Robert’s absence, Edna’s pull to him does not disappear, rather she finds herself leaving her husband and making her own salary by selling her artwork. Robert, however, does return to Edna only to leave once more leaving only a note to say goodbye. Ultimately, Edna kills herself in response to Robert’s actions.

Sacrifices can define one’s character; the definition can either be the highest dignity or the lowest degradation of the value of one’s life. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin implicitly conveys the sacrifice Edna Pontellier makes in the life which provides insight of her character and attributions to her “awakening.” She sacrificed her past of a lively and youthful life and compressed it to a domestic and reserved lifestyle of housewife picturesque. However, she meets multiple acquaintances who help her express her dreams and true identity. Mrs. Pontellier’s sacrifice established her awakening to be defiant and drift away from the societal role of an obedient mother, as well as, highlighting the difference between society’s expectations of

Malcolm Sayer, Oliver Sacks in real life, has admirable traits. He is a patient, caring and committed character in this movie. In today’s society, doctors are very busy dealing with patients and different illnesses and personalities every single day that it is difficult for them to give much attention to a particular person or disease. The writer of the paper proved that because a month ago, she went in a hospital for a tour and she witnessed how busy the staffs, the nurses, and the doctors were. Nowadays, it is hard to find such lovely and fully responsible doctor like Dr. Sayer.

The movie Awakenings is directed by Penny Marshall in the year 1990. Given the title Awakenings, the movie was about the dream of a doctor named Dr. Malcolm Sayer portrayed by Robin Willliams, whose goal is to cure the survivors of the outbreak of Encephalitis Lethargica and was paralyzed by Parkinson’s disease for decades. Dr. Sayer treated them by a miracle drug: Levo-dopa that was able to revive them again. After these awakenings, the true problems unveil, between the benefits and the counter side effects of the drug and the patients that weren’t able to accept the reality in time they have missed. This is some of the different factors of the movie that contributed to inspire works Dr. Sayer throughout the movie, which is the purpose of this paper.

In a short time there was an immense about of improvement seen in him, for 30 years he was wheelchair-bound and could not speak or move. He was getting adjusted to his life and did get angry that he couldn’t leave. After time his ticks started to show again and eventually he reverted to his old state, but while he was “awake” he was happy. He was able to see life even if it was just within the hospital, he spoke his mind and wrote and even became romantically interested in a woman who visited the hospital. The other patients also reverted but while they were awake they were able to cherish things that they weren’t able to experience like singing and dancing and even just simply being able to speak to their loved ones.

Charcot examined a large group of patients within Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, he had developed a way to observe tremors in action and at rest. “He noted that the patients with action tremor had accompanying features of weakness, spasticity, and visual disturbance. In contrast, those with rest tremor differed in having rigidity, slowed movements, a typical hunched posture, and very soft spoken.” (Goetz 2011) Charcot early tremor studies helped to establish Parkinson’s Disease through his very high publicized findings that neurological entity could be confidently be diagnosed. In 1957 a Swedish scientist Arvid Carlsson found out that dopamine in the brain region that is important for movement control. He showed that the levels of dopamine can be reduced in animals to cause symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease and also by giving the animals levodopa (L-dopa) to reverse the symptoms of PD. PD is second most common neurodegenerative after Alzheimer’s Disease and the most common movement disorder. Over 60,000 people here in the United States are diagnosed every year but they say the numbers can be much higher with undiagnosed people out there but over one million people live with Parkinson daily.10 million people worldwide live with Parkinson’s Disease and April 11th is World Parkinson’s Day. On April 11th, 2017 marked 200 years since James Parkinson publicized his essay.