Who Is Mr. Udall-OCD

Focusing on a twenty year old obsessed with death and suicide who falls in love with an eccentric almost-eighty-year-old woman, Harold and Maude is a somewhat unconventional romantic comedy widely regarded as a cult classic. This movie’s use of suicide and other sensationalized ideas from Psychology is jarring to say the least, but its Psychological principles are not limited to those. There are many everyday aspects of Psychology immortalized through this film that would hardly make one bat an eye. In the movie, twenty year old Harold lives, mostly, with his mother. During the time he is not living with his mother, he is faking suicide for her attention, bringing home a hearse as his first car, or attending funerals, presumably for fun. Harold’s quirks seem to at least somewhat

horror movies, King argues that “we are all mentally ill” (345). He expresses that we all

In his sophomore film, Julien Donkey-Boy (1999), director Harmony Korine tunes in to the psychotic perspective of Julien (Ewan Bremner) – a suburban schizophrenic with raisin-black eyes and detachable dentistry – and his almost equally grotesque family, in a disorderly smear of violence, incest, and finally, tragedy. The film 's fragmented narrative structure, with its grainy and hand-held visual style, shudders on to the screen in a fusillade of discursive vignettes, that reflect, not only the digital dexterity of its director, but the haunting psychosis of its titular protagonist. It is the inarticulate jumble of Julien 's psychology which is the organizing principle of the film. And, it is precisely how we as viewers identify with this character and become complicit in his pathological perspective which this essay will continue to explore.

“…She’s somethin’ of a cunt, ain’t she Doc?” Although Milos Foreman’s character, Randle McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), put his opinion of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) in the most vulgar of terms, he was not so far from the truth. In the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Nurse Ratched’s treatment and care of the patients was unethical when compared to the standards one would expect of a health care administrator. She used control over her patients to ensure order, without regard to the feelings and concerns of the patients. This issue is presented by the director, Milos Foreman, through symbolism, characterization and scenes. This, in turn, determines how the director wants us, as viewers, to feel about the issue.

For many, isolation is a terrible thing and can lead to madness. Dictatorships prosecute individuals who do not agree with the government and sentence them to imprisonment in solitary confinement. Isolation is a form of torture and it causes insanity. The Shining, directed by Stanley Kubrick, is a truly interesting case study of human psychology and how the descent of an individual into the depths of insanity can cause them to experience creepy and vivid ghostly encounters, which do not actually physically occur but rather originate from within the depths of the person’s psyche. Examples of such hallucinated encounters surround the main character, Jack Torrance, who, as the movie progresses, transfigures into the deranged antagonist the persons see at the end of the movie chasing his family with an axe. Jack’s psyche and subconscious mind produce visions and ghostly apparitions, all of which embody Jack’s deep violent desires. Jack seems to suffer from a split personality disorder, which is intensified by his loneliness, emotional instability, and feelings of isolation. Jack’s mind is literally falling apart.

In conclusion, Shutter Island shows a relatively accurate portrayal of a person struggling with Delusional Disorder, Persecutory Type. Throughout

An exceptionally tall, Native American, Chief Bromden, trapped in the Oregon psychiatric ward, suffers from the psychological condition of paranoid schizophrenia. This fictional character in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest struggles with extreme mental illness, but he also falls victim to the choking grasp of society, which worsens Bromden’s condition. Paranoid schizophrenia is a rare mental illness that leads to heavy delusions and hallucinations among other, less serious, symptoms. Through the love and compassion that Bromden’s inmate, Randle Patrick McMurphy, gives Chief Bromden, he is able to briefly overcome paranoid schizophrenia and escape the dehumanizing psychiatric ward that he is held prisoner in.

Although the filmic version of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has more similarities than differences to the book, one key change is the point of view. The book is narrated and told from the point of view of Chief Bromden, a mental patient who pretends to be deaf and mute and experiences paranoid delusions, while the film has no specific point of view, and Bromden is merely an outside character. The reason that this change is crucial is because of Bromden’s mental condition. Because Bromden experiences hallucinations, it illustrates a different, and scarier view of the staff at the mental institution, particularly Nurse Ratched, to the audience, and as the narrator, he also gives the reader background information about himself.

The film starts with the story of 22 year old Burbank raised Dethy. She is one that is thirsty for fame and attention. She gets thrills being a part of Hollywood’s social life. Sadly, Dethy is a “fame hungry wannabe” who uses drugs as a “socializing help”. She has been trying to “make it” in Hollywood since her mid-teens and has gained nothing but many drug addictions. The hunger for fame and drug use began when Dethy was only a teenager when her doctor diagnosed her with bipolar disorder.

Examples of manifest functions that were noticeable in Dave’s bike riding and Italian act would be learning Italian, becoming faster on his bike, and getting in shape. All of these are consequences that Dave expected to happen. They all benefit him and he recognized that. Meeting Katherine and going to college are latent functions of Dave’s actions. He wasn’t expecting to meet Katherine, but he did because of his bike riding and fake Italian ethnicity. He also wasn’t expecting to go to college, but his cycling allowed him to. Dysfunctional functions of Dave’s interactions would be conflicts with his Dad and becoming injured. Dave’s Dad did not understand his love for Italians which caused him to be upset with Dave. He wanted Dave to go back

As Good As it Gets Essay By: Macy Kline I found two possible disorders in which Melvin Udall may suffer from. His constant need of organization and perfection lead me to believe that he has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD. In definition OCD is an anxiety disorder in which people have repeated thoughts, feelings, ideas or sensations that make them feel driven to do certain things. Due to Melvin’s lack of a filter on his thoughts and opinions towards others also shows some evidence of Tourette syndrome.

In this chapter Dennis discussed some of the questions that the customers asked and he heard. Some of the questions were based on the simpilist things. Like the name of the chapter was what time is the 3 o’clock parade? What people meant by that was what time did the parade get to a certain point. People ask these almost insane questions because of all the excitement around them.

It is perfectly normal to double check things from time to time. However, if it becomes a habit that you have to check things numerous times that you have become obsessed with doing this routine over and over again then this may be a problem. People that feel the urge to check things repetitively, or have particular thoughts or perform routines and rituals numerous times have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The frequent thoughts that cause the anxiety in those are obsessions and the overwhelming urge to repeat the behaviors to alleviate their anxiety are compulsions. People who suffer with OCD have no control over their obsessions and compulsions, and this disorder often times ends up controlling the person; which affects their daily life.

There has been a plethora of studies linking aggression with anxiety, and self-esteem. These three facets of human thought and behavior seem inexorably linked. A study by Briol, Petty, and Requero (2017) looked at the role of aggressive thoughts had on self-evaluation. They first either performed aggressive priming, or a neutral control. They then asked them to self-evaluate by either asking them to list negative attributes or positive one. They found that in both conditions, the aggressive primed participants reported more in depth, and more vividly, meaning more positive attribute named, or more negative attribute named. They suggest that this means the aggressive priming leads people to rely on their emotion more vividly than either positive

The script is a very powerful character study exploring what it means to be insane and unraveling our very concepts of reality.