Bob In The Film: What About Bob

What About Bob tells a comical story of a Therapist, Dr. Marvin, and his new patient Bob. Desperate for help, Bob feels he cannot manage four weeks without his new therapist and decides to crash his therapist’s vacation. The movie depicts many different ethical dilemmas throughout the movie such as dual relationships, boundaries, and standard of care. Dual Relationships Dr. Leo Marvin, because of the family’s fondness of Bob and his own personal desire for his family members to like and admire him, he repeatedly continues to let Bob spend time with him and his family.

| Tom wants his old life back prior to the accident and he sees the accident as the end of his life as he knew it. He loses his sense of identity and sense of family in particular.Feels guilty and ashamed about the irrevocable consequences his brother’s irresponsibility had for other people and their familiesRetreats into a depressed state which feels empty and black.

He had even hired a housekeeper to take care of not only the house, but the baby as well. John also controlled almost everything in her life. In fact, the only thing he did not control was her journal writing, and even then she had to hide it from him since he did not approve of it. When he comes she says, "I must put this (the journal) away - he hates to have me write a word"(471). Part of John's problem 1s that he is a doctor. As a doctor, he control's his wife's health care, prescribing her medicines and her overall cure. As her husband, he is too emotionally involved to look at the case objectively, or if he had, he might have seen her mind going before it was too late. Not only that, the accepted "cure" at that particular time was ineffective and would only serve to make his wife worse (473). This "cure" was the product of a certain Dr. Weir Mitchell; a nerve specialist whose theory of a "rest cure" for mentally unstable patients was later found to be unsuccessful. In the story, the husband's ill-advised attempts to treat his wife's symptoms drive her insane by taking all responsibility from her and forcing isolation upon her as a part of her "cure."

During their first therapy session, Bob listed out his problems. These issues ranged from turrets to cardiac arrest and were summed up with Bob’s mindset that “If I fake it, then I don’t have it” (Bob, What About Bob?). Afterwards, Dr. Marvin diagnosis Bob with acute separation anxiety and a multiphobic personality. This diagnosis is accurate and Bob’s behaviors show it; he feels like he has to see his therapist every day, he is scared to leave his apartment, or to be in a crowded room.

Marvin beats his wife then locks her in the bedroom so she can't escape or go anywhere. When Ry wakes up and realizes she is in pain and can't do anything, he helps. Ry snuck into the window to help her and get her free. Ry’s mom gathers the family to escape and get away from Marvin by driving off in their car. Ry does not plan on ever coming back to his house so he quickly gathered all his important things to leave. But the family is too late. Marvin arrives home and he is furious. After attacking the family once more and hitting the kids, Ry decides to take action and use his baseball bat to knock Marvin over the head. This showed how Ry has been becoming more aggressive in the book and is sticking up to Marvin. Marvin then noticed Ry and took his bat, then chased him through the woods. This part plays a crucial role in the book because Ry takes another aggressive action against Marvin. Ry took one of the toys, whom he calls Scowler, out of his pocket. Scowler is a ugly handmade toy that was found at a garage sale that has sharp teeth and a sharp metal pole going through it. Ry slices his father in the throat with his ugly toy. Marvin does not die at this point but he does survive to then be led to an arrest. Ry’s sudden actions make it seem like he is a bad person who has the ability to kill like his dad but Ry is not an aggressive

The movie starts out with the main character Hunter "Patch" Adams entering himself into mental institution after having suicidal thoughts. His perspective on life soon changes when he realizes his passion is helping others feel better by using humor. Soon after Patch enrolls in a Virginia medical school where he encounters numerous problems with his view on healing people versus the college 's professional outlook. In particular, the school 's Dean has some major strife with Patch. He believes in a strict and business like approach in treating patients whereas, Patch believes humor can heal patients better.

Living at home with Sue has given Anna the opportunity to bond with her step-grandmother and allowing her to develop a close relationship and security within the home. The boundaries within the family have been set at a group decision. One of the main boundaries that have been laid down is Anna's interaction with Bob's medication. Bob does not take

Dr. Marvin broke a lot of ethical boundaries when he hit his breaking point and attacked Bob at the surprise birthday party. Then he ties Bob up and puts bags of bombs around his head. Dr. Marvin tells Bob that it’s a new type of treatment. By

In this scene where Jesse and his family are seen on their way to church, leaving Robert behind in his house. Robert then proceeds to go into Jesse’s room, puts on his hat, drinks from his glass of water, lies on his bed and runs his fingers over his ribs where Jesse has been shot and manufactures himself a hand where the top two knuckles of his index finger are missing. At the end of the scene, we see Charlie crying in his bed because he’s scared that Jesse is going to kill both him and his brother to which Bob tells him to stop worrying and that he’s imagining things. One of the key ideas that are portrayed in this scene is the want to be somebody of importance drives us to mould ourselves into a person we are not. From the rest of the film,

Scenario Tommy is the mental health advocacy in a hypothetical scenario concerning Fred who is elderly gentlemen living in California who has been in and out of hospital and prison for the past 30 years. He stated his childhood experience at the age of eight was very bad and caused him problems,

Along with other features, the actions of a character play a significant role in shaping their personality as it provides the audience with a clear idea of how the character thinks. The actions Ratched takes has a more psychological approach, rather than physical. For example, she manipulates the patients into revealing theirs, and inmates’ secrets by “merely insinuating”, simulating reactions from the patients. During the group therapy, which McMurphy refers to as “a peckin’ party”, he notes that Ratched “pecks [the] first peck” which demonstrates McMurphy’s understanding of the way Ratched works, which could also be understood that he also understands how society functions. However, despite it being clear to the readers that Ratched is manipulative, and controlling, the patients, specifically Harding believes the group therapy is “done solely for therapeutic reasons”. This shows the extent to which Ratched as power over Harding, as he quickly defends her, bringing up the fact that she is a “highly regarded psychiatric nurse with twenty years in the field”. However, it also shows how Bromden may be treating Ratched unfairly, as he fails to attempt to understand from Ratched’s perspective, like Harding. On the other hand, it can be understood that Harding is easily manipulated, and therefore cannot be trusted.

What about Bob? is a comedy about a therapist and his newly acquired patient that reveals the way psychological disorders and treatment are viewed through the lens of a cognitive theoretical perspective. Although this movie is heartfelt and hilarious, it accurately portrays the psychological illness of Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and the struggles that accompany it, through the main character Bob. This movie also takes a large stance on the cognitive perspective of psychotherapy. Not only is this evident in the characters, but it seems to be a prevalence in the master theme of the movie as well. As viewers watch this movie, they get a glimpse of what cognitive therapy actually is, some insight as to how it works, and how it effects patients in a positive manner.

He remembers back when he was in school and used to take a young girl’s lunch from her because his parents never sent him with one. He would make the girl think that she had already eaten her meal, but eventually he winds up killing her. This murder then sends him to prison and he again uses his hypnosis, this time on one of the wardens. He convinces the warden that he is actually an ostrich and he then dies while attempting to eat a door knob. After thinking about his past and the fact that his parents did not send him to school with a lunch, John becomes angry and uses his hypnosis on his parents. He makes them believe that they are horses and they kill each other. Once again, John is caught and for 15 years is left trying to get out of it. I think that the moral of this particular story is not to try to control others and/or their emotions. Nothing good can come from

He now has a different appetite and he realizes it when his sister brings him rotten cheese, vegetables and sauce. “Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them because he couldn't stand the smell.” He no longer craves human food, separating him from his family and humans, causing him to become alienated. He not only goes through a physical change, but his communication skills do as well, like a bug. He believed that what he was saying made sense, “the words he uttered were no longer understandable, apparently, although they seemed clear enough to him, even clearer than before, perhaps because his ear had grown accustomed to the sound of them.” He is frustrated because he now feels as if he has really lost connection with his family and has no way of communicating with them. Due to these circumstances, the family thinks that the answer to his behavior is, locking him up. They now

However by 1987, Singleton’s mental functioning had deteriorated and he exhibited severe marks of mental illness. He lost a significant amount of his weight and, among other things, thought that his mobile phone was possessed by demons and that a jail doctor had planted a device in his right ear to theft his ideas from him when he was reading the