Selby Movie Psychology

“The Sandlot” is a classic baseball movie in which incorporates a significant amount of sport psychology. Digging deeper down into the details of the movie, you will notice various levels of motivation, leadership, goal-setting, and teamwork. All of these aspects are essential to being successful in sports, mentally and physically.

Exploring How Alfred Hitchcock Manipulates The Audience In Psycho Alfred Joseph Hitchcock is thought to be, by most, the greatest film director of all time. He was born in Leytonstone, London on13 August 1899. He directed many great films such as The Lodger, The Birds, Sabotage, Notorious, Rear Window, and of course one of his greatest achievements ever, Psycho in 1960. He directed the first British sound film - Blackmail.

To say that Aileen’s start in life was a poor one, is a great understatement. It was a horrible life right from the start. One of the only good things about her life was that she never got to know her father, a psychopathic child molester, serving a life sentence in a Kansas prison for raping a 7 year old girl, who hanged himself in prison in 1969. (Arrigo & Griffin (2004).

First perspective is biological, Aileen suffered from borderline personality disorder. According to Paris the author of Borderline Personality Disorder some of the symptoms include reckless impulsive behavior, unstable relationships, and problems with regulating emotions (2005). These symptoms could have caused Aileen to have mini- psychotic episodes. She may have faced things like delusional thoughts that could have caused her to believe the men she was with were going to rape her. In her mind she was justified to commit the murder of seven men as self-defense. Next is psychodynamic, this psychological perspective caused a lot of problems for Aileen. In Aileen’s childhood she faced excessive amounts of abuse at the hands of her grandparents. As well as abandonment by her mother and father at a very young age. These events made Aileen an angry and violent person that ended in her committing murder. Behaviorally, Aileen learned that violence was okay. She learned to disconnect herself from her body in order to cope with the bad things happening to her so that she did not have to feel them. She did not have a nurturing caregiver so she never learned how to treat others decently. This made Aileen believe it was okay to be treated poorly by others and to treat others bad herself. Next is the cognitive perspective, Aileen was not a good problem solver. Her thoughts automatically turned

All this being just too much to bear, Aileen became a school dropout and remained in Michigan for a short time. after. Aileen then suffered the loss of the only close family members she knew. Keith passed away from throat cancer at age 21 and her grandfather Lauri committed suicide; she then branched out and headed for Florida so she could enjoy the nice warm weather and sleep on the beach if nothing else was available. This is when the crimes started to really evolve. (How did she get from Florida to Colorado?)

Additionally, Aileen also received word that her brother Keith had passed due to throat cancer. She was not only devastated, but also alone in the world since he was the only loyal person by her side. As she had done in the past, she resorted back to her heavy drinking and life of prostitution. Aileen received ten thousand dollars from her bothers

This video recording assignment was extremely interesting. I was nervous as could be. Looking back at the video recording, I can hear myself stuttering and over-thinking what to say. I also repeated myself more than I would have liked to, but I believe that came from nervousness and jitters I was feeling. Once I began the interview, I started to become calm because I was listening to the Amanda’s statements and reflecting or summarizing back to her what I heard she said. I was also nervous about how I would sound and look on the video recording. It is important to sound as if I emphasized with Amanda. I wondered if restating what the client just said would come off condescending or disrespectful. It is so important to me to never come off as if I am in a place of authority because I feel like this type of ambiance would have resulted in Amanda building a wall with me that I would not be able

She was popping pills and drinking alcohol due to her dad being an alcoholic and being the only child still in the home. I did question the validity of her statement, but medical records of her being in a coma would verify that. She got a job at 14 in Fordham New York where the girls were pretty and took advantage of rich men. That’s when she started having sex with men for material things. She was so used to getting a mild reprimand she thought the system was a joke until she claimed jail saved her life. She learned some life lessons herself while currently being incarcerated. While reading Toni Morrison’s Love, Lxxxx discovered every protagonist had a problem figuring out their path in life. She asked why do women tend to give up on themselves when life gets rough and called the women “empty souls

The lives of certain people in this world can be ridiculously strange to the average human being. People, who grew up with the extreme strains and pressure of society, sometimes end up following the path of the life of a criminal. Certain frustrations, negative emotions and anger can build up over time from the societal pressure to live up to certain expectations. This is known as strain theory and a prime example for the life of someone who grew up with such pressure is a felon named Aileen Wuornos. In her case, she wasn’t pressured to live up to a certain expectation but her family mentally and physically abused her. She was a serial killer who earlier grew up in a life that consisted of child abuse, abandonment, neglect and teen pregnancy. These strains caused a mental breakdown and she turned to the life of a sex worker while using her murderous aggression towards her customers.

Precious is a 2009 American drama movie about a 16-year-old who lives in an Urban setting getting through her tough life and finding a way out of her terrible situations. Precious lives in Harlem, New York City. Her mother, Mary, doesn’t work, and her father, Carl, recently just left. Precious’ father was sexually abusive towards her and got her pregnant twice (she was pregnant with her second time throughout the course of the movie). Her mother is physically and emotionally abusive towards Precious.

A good movie starts with the setting; in a horror movie the setting is key. In Psycho the setting is a small motel right off the highway. Behind the motel is a big, old, eerie house that Norman Bates and his mother live in. One of the main characters, Marion Crane is a young woman who is working for her boss, who sells houses. When Marion goes into work she does not feel well, and asks her boss if she can go home early. He says yes but asks her to do one thing before she leaves. Her boss makes a sale on a home and is paid, up front, forty thousand dollars in cash. He asks Marion to take the money to the bank before she goes

Multiple Personality Disorder, or Dissociative Identity Disorder, is a very real disorder that is depicted in the movie “Split” directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The main character in the movie is a man named Kevin. As the movie plays out it is very easy to see that something is off with this guy. The story unfolds and includes him playing the part of many different personalities, all completely different from the other. It really makes for a strong, interesting movie. The audience is intrigued throughout the entire thing because of the sudden twists and turns and the eager await of a new personality change that could alter the story. Shyamalan did a very good job in expressing how this disorder

Neurodivergent people, or people with mental disorders outside the societal norm, have been portrayed in society as pure evil for as long as they have been around. The 1960 film Psycho, the story of Norman Bates, a man who as a child became obsessed with his mother and later on began to murder for her, exhibits only one aspect of what a psycho or sociopath could become, a violent, harmful, insane individual finding pleasure in torturing others. Psycho is not the only movie, as countless other horror movies, including Friday the 13th, Halloween, and Silence of the Lambs, focus on these neurodivergent people as the sole people behind such acts. It is this very reason society has such a negative and close-minded view of these individuals. They

Lorenzo Odone was a young man in the 1980’s that had a rare condition of Adrenoleukodystrophy, which is a condition that disables ones metabolism to break down long chains of fatty acids. Adrenoleukodystrophy or otherwise known as ALD occurred in most boys in their early childhood and in most cases they never made it past child hood. Young boys were either left as vegetables till their teen years while others died early on. Patients, such as the young boys, should not be forced to suffer due to the parents struggle with the thought of or the actual loss their child. The patient should have a voice on whether or not he or she would like to go through treatments or just live peacefully.

To complete the signature assignment, the movie Annie Hall (1977) was used to document how a client might feel as they enter therapy for treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The central figure in Annie Hall (1977) was a white male named Alvy Singer, played by actor Woody Allen. Singer has a diagnosis of GAD and has been in treatment for his disorder with a psychiatrist for 15-years that began in his early childhood. Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) suggests that an individual with this disorder is locked into a range of maladaptive emotions due to what is identified as a cognitive attentional syndrome (CAS). Cognitive attentional syndrome (CAS) maintains that the individual constantly experiences numerous forms of repetitive