Psychological Diagnosis of Blackswan

She fears for the lives of her children and worries that harm will come to them. This also represents an aspect of the parent-child relationship. No matter how old children get, their parents still worry about the things they do and the choices they

herself to not have to ‘suffer’ her mother’s fate. She almost seems to be developing anxiety and

Mental illness is and has always been a serious topic. But it has not always been taken as serious in the black community. From my research, scholars and medical professionals in the field of mental health spoke on the fact that mental illness is a stigma in the black community and the conversation of this is not happening. There are many factors that contributed to this. Factors such as the distrust of medical professionals, mis-diagnosis, socio-economical factors and so much more contribute to the reason the black community is missed when it comes to mental health. I also discovered the inside factors that were culture, religion, mis-education, and family reliance. This also becomes why it is a stigma or why it’s not talked about amongst everyone in the community.

For Black people, race is a never-ending conscious component of life in America. We live in a country with a history of slavery that, once ended, extended into an institution and system of laws; Jim Crow, that continue to keep members of the Black community “othered” and invisible. The threefold purpose of this writing is to discuss how the treatment of African-American patients engaging in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy - as they exist today - fails to meet their full potential in the healing of the Black psyche; and to consider how the training curriculum can be expanded to include writings of Black psychoanalysts; and to encourage the analytic community to be opened up to include more analysts of

This could be foreshadowing that the child will become even more difficult to handle. Making her even more scared and difficult to work with. That is another example of external conflict.

In the beginning, Metal Illness was treated like it was a special form of stupidity, but it is in fact a serious medical issue and shouldn’t be downgraded by ignorant stigma.

Black mental health differs from White mental health. White people manage mental illness completely different than African Americans. For instance, the 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report states that White people seek and receive treatment or therapy for mental health issues at twice the rate as African Americans.

Looking at the symptoms such as anxiety attacks, overeating, fear of accomplishment, fear of abandonment, and so forth—can be interpreted as outward manifestations of unconscious conflicts that have their origins in childhood experiences and defensive reaction to these experiences that are necessary to her as a child.

This is obviously a sign of bad mental health, but there were several incidents that led up to this state of mind. An often occurrence were the fights between her and her husband. She didn’t agree with his ethics and motivations to grow human organs such as kidneys, brain tissue, and livers inside pigoons. “The goal of the pigoon project was to grow foolproof human-tissue organs in a transgenic knockout pig” (Atwood 22). This was an issue that may have caused Jimmy’s mother to be neglectful towards her son was her depression. Depression is a mental illness that affected her everyday life. She was so exhausted with the fights with her husband and the depression on top of that. This caused her to be uninterested in her son and it is also what caused her to run away with Jimmy’s pet. This shows that mental illness isn’t always caused by something, but rather someone is born with it. People with depression always have it, but it can be triggered to where it affects their everyday lives. Jimmy’s mother’s depression may have been triggered by stress about her husband’s job and constant arguing with her husband. Either way, whether it is ones chemical make-up or something that causes it, mental health really does affect the way people live their lives.

Aldrich and Isomaki begin their article by formally declaring that they are taking a psychological stance on the matter: “We provide a loosely psychoanalytic frame of study for our students, focusing on the mother-daughter relation and the

The magnificent "obsession" can be one of two things. It can be a thing of beauty, a gifted ballet dancer gracefully contorting their body to a harmonious pace. But it can also be a thing of darkness, a face of white like Bergman's vision of Death with red, piercing eyes included. Director Darren Aronofsky is no stranger to telling tales of obsession. In fact, most of his films deal with the dueling sides of that fiery driven coin. With Black Swan, his latest film, he once again delves into the mental state of one who is obsessed, and, once again, he creates a thing of visionary brilliance. Black Swan, slow burn though it may be in the former half, quickly transcends both its lead character and her story

In this scene, Nina is the main focus. With her mother Erica in the background throughout, no matter if you can see her or not. Her voice and non- diegetic music is added to show how her mother embodies Nina. With the use of sound as Erica pushes on the locked door, there is light music that would put you to sleep. This calms the audience to portray that Erica is a caring, loving mother. When Nina’s mother becomes more invasive towards Nina the musical background intensifies. This also intensifies when Nina traps herself. The director uses non- diegetic music to identify when Nina is trapped physically and more importantly mentally. She confines herself away from her mother and mental illness. Nina’s reaction to her mother is the usual response to help and personal mental health “go away.” This demonstrates Darren Aronofsky 's way he wanted to depict women to mental health and relationships. The audience is able to grasp on mental health that is not being supported. Which consequently portray how relationships need to fight for help with individuals that have mental health issues. Darren Aronofsky represent women in a way that women in society react to their mental health and chose not to get help. He shows how people outside react to the characters mental health from an inside perspective. From the non-diegetic music, we are able to communicate the levels of mental health and how two

Nina is also having many hallucinations, besides seeing her sub-personality, she has seen feathers growing out of her skin, her legs crack/bend, and drawings of herself moving and taunting her. Schizophrenia seems to be the conclusion from these symptoms. Nina also is extremely paranoid about others around her and has had hallucinations regarding their betrayal of her. She is delusional in her beliefs of another ballerina trying to sabotage her and take her

Black Swan and Whiplash both feature intense practice sequences that build upon the narrative of obsessing over a craft. This intense and obsessive practice leads up to the conclusion of the films; where each character gives their absolute best performance. Nina’s final transformation into an impure and sinful character is completed when she grows black wings and slams her mother’s hand in her door. During the performance, Nina gets into an altercation with herself and stabs herself in the pure White Swan costume. Andrew transforms into “one of the greats” as he is embarrassed by Fletcher on stage. They both have their careers riding on their performances. They both fail to begin with; Andrew not knowing the chart the rest of the band is playing and Nina falling during act I of Swan Lake. Yet their greatness is proven when they give the final goodbye to their parental figures and former youth. Andrew runs off stage, hugs his dad and his former reality, as he knows his life will never be what it once was. Nina exchanges eye contact with her crying mother as she looks proudly onto her daughter dancing like she never could.

Throughout the movie, Nina was seen suffers from numerous of symptoms which seems abnormal. While her anxiety is clearly expressed, obsessive compulsive disorder may be the prominent disorder in which Nina was experiencing. First of all, she continuously receives criticism that she was trying to be “perfect” from her instructor (Thomas) during the practices. As we know, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD associates psychological distress