How Shutter Island Relates to Psychology
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How Shutter Island Relates to Psychology.
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The movie Shutter Island is based in Boston’s Ashecliffe Hospital located on Shutter Island in 1954. It’s about a Federal Marshal named Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule who are sent to Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of a patient there, Rachel Solando. She had been put in the institution because she drowned her three kids; However Teddy had been pushing for the assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister, or are they? Teddy's investigating skills (dreams he has while awake and asleep, where his dead wife tells him to what do.) soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open, but how does this movie relate to psychology?
First, we must ask ourselves if there are or were there hospitals like Ashecliffe in real life? Yes there were and still are, however, through the years they have changed due to constant learning and new therapy methods from psychologist. You have different types of mental hospitals. According to Jeremy Clyman, M.A. the movie was “inspired by the "snake pit" mental hospitals of the '50s and '60s in which many chronically ill patients suffered a lifetime of filth and mistreatment”. Because of the new discoveries as how to treat the mentally ill in the1950s, dangerous medicines and operations were used on people without much research. The movie discusses the "ice pick" frontal lobotomy. Before you dismiss this as horror movie fiction you should know “that approximately sixty years ago over five thousand procedures were performed in the U.S.”(Jeremy Clyman, M.A.) This is scary to know that this is the way we treated
How Shutter Island Relates to Psychology.
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The movie Shutter Island is based in Boston’s Ashecliffe Hospital located on Shutter Island in 1954. It’s about a Federal Marshal named Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule who are sent to Shutter Island to investigate the disappearance of a patient there, Rachel Solando. She had been put in the institution because she drowned her three kids; However Teddy had been pushing for the assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister, or are they? Teddy's investigating skills (dreams he has while awake and asleep, where his dead wife tells him to what do.) soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open, but how does this movie relate to psychology?
First, we must ask ourselves if there are or were there hospitals like Ashecliffe in real life? Yes there were and still are, however, through the years they have changed due to constant learning and new therapy methods from psychologist. You have different types of mental hospitals. According to Jeremy Clyman, M.A. the movie was “inspired by the "snake pit" mental hospitals of the '50s and '60s in which many chronically ill patients suffered a lifetime of filth and mistreatment”. Because of the new discoveries as how to treat the mentally ill in the1950s, dangerous medicines and operations were used on people without much research. The movie discusses the "ice pick" frontal lobotomy. Before you dismiss this as horror movie fiction you should know “that approximately sixty years ago over five thousand procedures were performed in the U.S.”(Jeremy Clyman, M.A.) This is scary to know that this is the way we treated