American Psycho Essay
In the movie “American Psycho” Patrick Bateman is handsome, well-educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence. Patrick Bateman is the protagonist in the film, and he suffers from three personality disorders, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder. Although the movie does not mention these disorder, I used DSM-IV classification to tell me what disorder he has by going through the diagnoses and symptoms. There are many ways to treat these disorders The first disorder I seen in the
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Pattern of unstable relationships in his two relationship with his fiancée shown hate towards each other and Courtney who he I just sleeping with. Unstable sense of identity in the opening scene where he says "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me" (Harron, 2000). Impulsive when he gets prostitutes and not calling Dorsia beforehand for the tables. Self-destructive and suicidal behavior are not seen in the movie. Wide mood swings are seen in many times in the movie Patrick gets annoyed out of nowhere with people and yells at people, like in the scene where he yells at the server in the restaurant “not if you want to keep your spleen!” (Harron, 2000). Chronic feelings of emptiness are shown in the end of the movie when Patrick says to himself "But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself" (Harron, 2000). Anger issues seen when he lashes out at people like in the scene with the server. Periods of paranoia is not seen in the movie. Patrick has seven of the ten diagnoses so he surely has the borderline personality disorder. The symptoms are when depersonalization in the beginning of the movie he says "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory” (Harron, 2000). Patrick shows Risky behavior when he sleeps with the prostitutes or does cocaine with
Pattern of unstable relationships in his two relationship with his fiancée shown hate towards each other and Courtney who he I just sleeping with. Unstable sense of identity in the opening scene where he says "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me" (Harron, 2000). Impulsive when he gets prostitutes and not calling Dorsia beforehand for the tables. Self-destructive and suicidal behavior are not seen in the movie. Wide mood swings are seen in many times in the movie Patrick gets annoyed out of nowhere with people and yells at people, like in the scene where he yells at the server in the restaurant “not if you want to keep your spleen!” (Harron, 2000). Chronic feelings of emptiness are shown in the end of the movie when Patrick says to himself "But even after admitting this, there is no catharsis; my punishment continues to elude me, and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself" (Harron, 2000). Anger issues seen when he lashes out at people like in the scene with the server. Periods of paranoia is not seen in the movie. Patrick has seven of the ten diagnoses so he surely has the borderline personality disorder. The symptoms are when depersonalization in the beginning of the movie he says "There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman; some kind of abstraction. But there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory” (Harron, 2000). Patrick shows Risky behavior when he sleeps with the prostitutes or does cocaine with