Postraumatic Stress Disorder In Inception
Psych 303 - Dominick Cobb with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
I will be diagnosing Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception who played the role as Dominick Cobb. Mr. Cobb suffers from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He works in the field of extraction which involves of stealing valuable information from his target by infiltrating their dreams. Cobb is currently wanted by the United States because his wife committed suicide and framed him for her death. He is now currently on the run looking for work in the black market in Europe and his only goal is to go back home to see his children. His age seems to be unknown but he looks as if he could be in his early forties or late thirties. The time period of the movie is during the present. The setting is vague because majority of the movie is in multiple dreams that don't have specific locations.
According to the DSM-IV the first criteria for PTSD requires a stressor which must be a traumatic event that the person has experienced. The person must have experienced, witnessed with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death and the response must involve intense fear, helplessness or horror. The trauma for Mr. Cobb was witnessing his wife commit suicide on their anniversary. In the scene where Cobb's wife commits suicide, she does this by jumping off the ledge at the hotel they were staying. Before she jumps, Cobb tries to convince her to come back inside, the tone of his voice is worried and he trembles with fear. After she jumps, he is screaming at the top of his lungs and instantly breaks into tears. Two other traumas that Cobb experienced was when he and his wife killed themselves in a dream by getting run over a freight train in order to get back to reality and leaving the country without saying goodbye to his children.
The second criteria for PTSD is persistently re-experiencing the traumatic event, it must be done in at least one of the following ways: recurrent and intrusive distressing
I will be diagnosing Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception who played the role as Dominick Cobb. Mr. Cobb suffers from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). He works in the field of extraction which involves of stealing valuable information from his target by infiltrating their dreams. Cobb is currently wanted by the United States because his wife committed suicide and framed him for her death. He is now currently on the run looking for work in the black market in Europe and his only goal is to go back home to see his children. His age seems to be unknown but he looks as if he could be in his early forties or late thirties. The time period of the movie is during the present. The setting is vague because majority of the movie is in multiple dreams that don't have specific locations.
According to the DSM-IV the first criteria for PTSD requires a stressor which must be a traumatic event that the person has experienced. The person must have experienced, witnessed with an event or events that involve actual or threatened death and the response must involve intense fear, helplessness or horror. The trauma for Mr. Cobb was witnessing his wife commit suicide on their anniversary. In the scene where Cobb's wife commits suicide, she does this by jumping off the ledge at the hotel they were staying. Before she jumps, Cobb tries to convince her to come back inside, the tone of his voice is worried and he trembles with fear. After she jumps, he is screaming at the top of his lungs and instantly breaks into tears. Two other traumas that Cobb experienced was when he and his wife killed themselves in a dream by getting run over a freight train in order to get back to reality and leaving the country without saying goodbye to his children.
The second criteria for PTSD is persistently re-experiencing the traumatic event, it must be done in at least one of the following ways: recurrent and intrusive distressing