Personality Disorders : The Good Son

Sadistic Personality Disorder in Children Review of literature indicates that Henry from The Good Son (1993) exhibits sadistic behavior throughout the film. Abnormal mental behavior of any kind in children is an important topic of study in psychology. There are many different kinds of mental illnesses that some children can exhibit and form into their adulthood (Hucker, 2012). Sadistic Personality Disorder is unfortunately one of the illnesses. Henry from The Good Son (1993) is a prime

Antisocial Personality Disorder Leads to Violent Acts in Young Children According to research antisocial disorder causes violent acts in children of a young age. Review of literature indicates that antisocial personality disorder is a mental condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others. This behavior is often criminal (Berger, 2014). It has been said that people who have experiences a traumatic event in their life many develop

Antisocial Personality Disorder in Young Children In the movie The Good Son, Henry Evans, a 12 year old boy, shows many symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder. That is the reason he could commit multiple violent acts. Antisocial Personality Disorder is repeated disregard and violation of other people’s rights. It usually starts in childhood and continues into adulthood. It happens more in males than it does females. The symptoms of the disorder also decrease as you get older (Psych Central

and gets in shape, so he begins working out and smoking marijuana that is supplied by his neighbor’s son. The movie ends with a shot in Lester’s head by his homosexual neighbor who thinks his son is having physical relationship with Lester. Many of the characters in this movie can be diagnosed with one or more mental disorders, However, I will be focusing on the main character’s mental disorder, Lester Burnham. Lester was a 42-years-old man who goes through many changes from the beginning to the

name of the movie character I selected, from a movie titled The Emotional Agony. Chinedu has a personality disorder in the movie performance. King explained that “chronic, maladaptive cognitive-behavioral patterns that are thoroughly integrated into an individual personality” is known as personality disorder (king, 2016). Personality disorders are comparatively popular (King, 2016). Personality disorder can also be defined as a mental discomfort "enduring pattern[s] of inner experience and behavior"

Dissociative Identity Disorder, commonly referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder, exists as a bizarre mental disorder in which a person acquires two or more distinct identities or personality states. The disorder received much attention through such accounts as Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve. Multiple Personality Disorder, caused from severe and inhuman sexual, physical, and mental abuse, affects the individuals consciousness and in turn creates altar selves. Categorized into three different

With a family of four and a father on disability, their income is extremely stretched. Norma’s continuous shopping for clothes, shoes and curtains that they simply do not have the money for. As a result her husband becomes very violent. Norman (her son) played by actor Freddie Highmore, is in his bedroom and over hears the argument but instead of going to where the fighting is occurring, he goes to the kitchen to grab a metal pot. Next thing you know his dad is dead, Norman blacks-out, and Norma is

Anorexia Nervosa is usually psychological as well as possibly an eating disorder which is life-threatening well-defined by a tremendously low body weight comparative to stature, great and needless weight loss, fear of gaining weight and distorted discernment of an individual’s self-image and body. There are several clinical factors of this eating disorder, and they are the following: the victim has a tendency of fearing his normal body weight where in this case, a person fears to be fat. In other

Smith worked at a local fried chicken restaurant. A year after the nuptials, she gave birth to a baby boy by the name of Daniel for which she claims she devoted her life. The marriage to Billy was short lived, and within a year after the birth of their son, she divorced him (Anna, 2008). She was not content with small town life. Smith quoted that, "She was going to be the next Marilyn Monroe". As a single mother, Vickie worked multiple low paying jobs like: Wal-Mart, and then became an exotic dancer

children get their motives from, or why there are sociopathic children, but they are in this world, maybe even right next door to us. 1. What Archetypes do Sociopathic Children Obtain?; 2. What Can in the Future if a Child is Diagnosed With Conduct Disorder?; and 3. Have There Been Children Who Kill in the Past? What Archetypes do Sociopathic Children display? According to Carl Jung’s theory, the psyche has three parts to it; the ego, personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious (Golden