The Movie Primal Fear

Fear: an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat(Websters Dictionary).Fear is something that our lives have adapted to rarely use as our ancient predecessors have.In our day and age the concept of fear comes through the stress of work. We humans no longer fear a cold nor do we fear storms as our houses protect us and on average our life spans are longer as old in the Paleolithic was 33 while currently it is 71.5(Wikipedia Life Expectancy). Why then is our fear so extensive that it can make us freeze up? “The answer is our legacy of ancient fears, the result of having spent millions of years running from predators. Our fear response is more influenced by the ancient species we struggled to escape than any modern challenges.”(The evolutionary legacy of having been prey.By Rob Dunn) This is one of the statements about human life. If this is so how do we develop from terror to finding fear fun?

From a bio-psychological perspective dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct or split identities or personality states that continually have power over the person's behavior. With dissociative identity disorder, there's also an inability to recall key personal information that is too far-reaching to be explained as mere forgetfulness; which we noticed in Aaron right before he transforms into Roy. With dissociative identity disorder, there are also highly distinct memory variations, which fluctuate with the person's split personality. The "alters" or different identities have their own age, sex, or race. Each has his or her own postures, gestures, and distinct way of talking. Roy and Aaron were completely opposite in almost every way imaginable. Roy spoke with confidence and authority whereas Aaron was unsure of himself and lacked confidence. While Roy took charge and became violent, Aaron on the other hand was passive and submissive and would not hurt a fly. Sometimes the Alters are imaginary people; sometimes they are animals. As each personality reveals itself and controls the individuals' behavior and thoughts, it's called "switching." Switching can take seconds to minutes to days. Along with the dissociation and

Based on all of the narrator’s symptoms it is clear that the narrator fits the diagnostic criteria for dissociative identity disorder not otherwise specified. The diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder requires the individual to have two separate personalities or identities that take control of the individual. In this specific case, the narrator only suffers from one separate identity taking control and therefore he does not meet the criteria for dissociative identity disorder. The DSM-IV-TR supports diagnosing the narrator with

In chapter 15 of Exploring Psychology, the author discuss the basics of psychological disorders. Within this assignment, the psychological disorder of my choosing is Dissociative Identity Disorder. The commonality of the disorder is rare. Although we’ve disassociated ourselves in some form or the other with our ability to daydream, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is more severe and is usually linked to trauma. Formerly the disorder was known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Individuals who suffer from this disorder usually have more than one aspect of themselves or personalities, whom he or she is completely unaware of. Sufferers of the disorder have to deal with a variety of symptoms such as memory loss, depression, anxiety, hallucinations, black-outs, impulsiveness, and perception of being detached from the self. The severity of the trauma is usually extreme, repetitive, and long-term. The individual may have an extensive history of physical, emotional, and/or sexual abuse.

“The Gift Of Fear,” a psychology book written by Gavin De Becker, is an extremely useful and informative read. It gives valuable advice about how to act upon human intuition, how to recognize threats, and defines what real fear is and it’s purpose. I found the book to be extremely interesting. This book provided me with a sense of understanding on violence and fear and I feel much better prepared when it comes to recognizing dangerous situations.

We often think of science fiction as a science but in fact, it has more to do with destruction than anything else according to Susan Sontag in “the-imagination-of-disaster”. I think that scary movies give off a wrong interpretation by the way it is presented, many people see it as scary monsters that are only there to scare you but I think that a lot of people watch these movies bring out the little demon that is trapped inside them. I think that scary movies are misinterpreted at times because it gives the viewer that is enjoying the movie the impression that its only motive is to scare you, but there are many ways that these scary movies bring out the little demon that you usually are unable to let out.

Spoken by Joseph Campbell, myths “support a certain social order and define humanity under any circumstance.” The film Dances With Wolves tells a fictional story that expresses those two mythological functions through the journey of John Dunbar beginning as a United States soldier and becoming a part of a Native American tribe, the Sioux. Through this transformation, the mythological functions help define what it means to be a true human being. A true human being is someone who has become so aware of the multitude of cultures and ideologies within the world that they have the ability to recognize the greater good within them and be selfless in the decisions surrounding that. A true human being only acts in an evil way when it is necessary

Originally, Americans wanted to remain isolated from the rest of the world so they could be safe from the dangers of war and European conflicts (I can see why). At the same time, America wanted to be the role model for countries around the world, but World War II made them realize that because they are isolated by the oceans surrounding them, they can no longer serve as a model for the rest of the world. As a result, America 's postwar goal was to involve themselves in world politics to keep peace and make sure that authoritarian governments (such as the Soviet Union) would not overtake Europe (seems like they promoted war than prevented it because they provided so many weapons for other countries). However, the Soviet Union leader, Joseph Stalin, wanted to control all of Europe (just as Hitler had), with a plan to step in and take it over during a war that will occur in the future between rival capitalists, Britain and America, probably since history repeats itself (WW1 was a war between capitalists- true story). After the war ended and the restoration of Europe was in process, Stalin began to overstep his boundaries by sending troops to occupy areas that he was not permitted to (not a very smart decision from Stalin 's side), which angered America and Britain, especially since they were agreeing to his demands that were originally settled between the him and Hitler. Adding the newly-created communist

The cognitive perspective could be used to explain Roy’s behavior because Roy created the persona of Aaron. This was a way of using problem solving in order to survive. He knew that if he was found guilty by the jury he would be sentenced to death so he faked a mental illness in order to be found incompetent for the crime of homicide. He made it so that the jury as well as everyone else in court would sympathize with him when he pretended to be Aaron and then switched to the other personality of Roy.

He was crazy and lived in Whitechapel. Aaron is believed to have schizophrenia which is a disorder where you can hear voices (Jones). Since he was crazy he may have believed he was killing for a higher power, maybe a cause or a belief. Also, he could kill without feeling any remorse because he was insane. When he was taken away to the mental asylum the killings stopped.

Throughout the movie they give flashbacks to what Kevin endured. A person with dissociative identity disorder often suffers from trauma and use this mechanism of changing personalities as a way to cope so they do not have to deal with the pain. Kevin endured physical abuse as a child from his mother and the environment he was is the source to his abnormal behavior. For Casey, one of the young girls abducted also suffered from trauma as a child because of sexual abuse. She did not have dissociative disorder, but I do believe she repressed a lot of her memories from when she was younger to cope and that they could be the reason why she likes to be alone and has problems in school. I do not believe the ending did justice for people with this illness. A person who has dissociative disorder is not always dangerous and will not steal children or turn into a beast and for the sake of the movie it did make a good plot. Al though, I feel like they inaccurately described how life is for a person with DID. From previous learning, people with mental illness are often not dangerous but just trying to hide their mental health

Diagnosing this disorder is difficult because it is so closely related to PTSD (Frey et al., 2012). The DSM-V is used to diagnose the condition. Many of the individuals diagnosed with the condition have a history of being sexually or physically abused as children. These individuals begin developing personalities as early as the age of three because this is when the majority of individuals start forming memories. A combination of treatments is what is most effective for DID; the most common being a combination of psychotherapy with the use of an antidepressant such as SSRI (Haddock, 2001). The prognosis of DID is not clear and this is primarily because the diagnosis of and treatment varies by

Each alter (personality) exists inside one person and has his or her own unique characteristics. To be diagnosed with DID, along with having two or more distinct identities, amnesia must occur, limiting how much a person can remember about both traumatic events and daily occurrences amongst the alters. Symptoms of DID are not resulting from the use of any substance, such as alcohol or medication. Also, people with dissociative identity disorder often report the experience of severe physical and sexual abuse during childhood (Salters-Pedneault 2016). The character Aaron Stampler has a second personality in Roy, a sociopath with a disregard for human life.

Last year the horror movie, Split, was released in theaters. The movie grossed $138.12 million dollars and was ranked in the top ten movies of 2016 (imdb.com). Split was a major success and terrified thousands of people. While watching this movie some audience members probably became extremely paranoid while others may have been perfectly calm. Every single person’s relationship with fear is different. Fear is a universal emotion that everybody encounters; however, every person’s experience with it is unique. Different personalities and cultures cause people to react and cope with fear in various ways. The novels Zeitoun and The Death of Ivan Ilych highlight fear and opposing experiences with it.

The character that I chose to write about is Kevin Wendell Crumb from the movie “Split”. Kevin suffers from dissociative identity disorder which causes him to experience 23 different personalities within his mind. Dissociative identity disorder used to be called multiple personality disorder and is defined as a person’s identity that is fragmented into two or more distinct personalities. The most common cause for dissociative identity disorder is severe abuse whether it be physical, emotional and sexual or a mix of all three. The personalities are said to live their own life, have their own characteristics and memories, when the personalities switch there is no recollection of the memories that the other personalities had. Gaps of time