Psychological Analysis Of The Movie 'Ordinary People'
Amber Rodriguez
Stocker
Psychology
12/10/2011
My Analysis on the characters of “Ordinary People”
In the movie ordinary people our main character is Conrad Jarrett played by actor Timothy Hutton it is displayed that he is ultimately suffering from a case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a lasting consequence of traumatic ordeals that cause intense fear, helplessness, or horror, such as a sexual or physical assault, the unexpected death of a loved one or accident. In Conrad’s case this diagnosis suits him very well multiple time throughout the movie Conrad display symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Conrad is struck with guilt throughout the movie he feels as though his brother’s death was …show more content…
I assumed this because when Conrad’s Father speaks of his well-being and how Conrad is seeing a Psychologist to a mutual friend Conrad’s mother becomes angry and upset. While Conrad is attending a session with Dr. Berger his parents meet to talk and his mother says that she wants to go away for the holidays like they do every year but the father seems resistant because he does not want to make their son stop going to a therapists when he is doing so well, and that he does not want to leave him behind …show more content…
On the day of Buck Conrad’s deceased brother’s funeral Calvin had put on a shirt and automatically Beth put down Calvin by saying he couldn’t wear that shirt because it didn’t look right. This bothered Calvin but yet again he put it away because he felt it would hurt Beth. Calvin has not found a successful way to cope with his stress so instead he turns to repression. Repression is when an individual takes unacceptable or unpleasant impulses are pushed back into the unconscious. He avoids causing a scene would cause him anxiety. The problem with this is everyone is eventually can feel overwhelmed at one point and will explode like in the movie when Calvin lets loose on Beth about her having him change his shirt and ask why she made him do that and she reverts to being angry and does not answer him not really at
Stocker
Psychology
12/10/2011
My Analysis on the characters of “Ordinary People”
In the movie ordinary people our main character is Conrad Jarrett played by actor Timothy Hutton it is displayed that he is ultimately suffering from a case of post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a lasting consequence of traumatic ordeals that cause intense fear, helplessness, or horror, such as a sexual or physical assault, the unexpected death of a loved one or accident. In Conrad’s case this diagnosis suits him very well multiple time throughout the movie Conrad display symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Conrad is struck with guilt throughout the movie he feels as though his brother’s death was …show more content…
I assumed this because when Conrad’s Father speaks of his well-being and how Conrad is seeing a Psychologist to a mutual friend Conrad’s mother becomes angry and upset. While Conrad is attending a session with Dr. Berger his parents meet to talk and his mother says that she wants to go away for the holidays like they do every year but the father seems resistant because he does not want to make their son stop going to a therapists when he is doing so well, and that he does not want to leave him behind …show more content…
On the day of Buck Conrad’s deceased brother’s funeral Calvin had put on a shirt and automatically Beth put down Calvin by saying he couldn’t wear that shirt because it didn’t look right. This bothered Calvin but yet again he put it away because he felt it would hurt Beth. Calvin has not found a successful way to cope with his stress so instead he turns to repression. Repression is when an individual takes unacceptable or unpleasant impulses are pushed back into the unconscious. He avoids causing a scene would cause him anxiety. The problem with this is everyone is eventually can feel overwhelmed at one point and will explode like in the movie when Calvin lets loose on Beth about her having him change his shirt and ask why she made him do that and she reverts to being angry and does not answer him not really at