The Four Psychological Issues In The Blind Side

Obviously, the movie I am going to write about is The Blind Side (Hancock, 2009). There are four psychological issues that I am going to talk about in this paper. They are going to cover the stages that Michael Oher faces in his life all while trying to achieve his dream, playing college football. He tries so hard to reach his dream while trying hard to achieve in academics during high school. The four psychological issues that I am going to cover are his abandonment issues, racial issue, social economic issue, and his low self-esteem.
Abandonment Issues Michael Oher’s drive to play collegiate and professional football reminds me of Alfred Adler’s theory where he thinks that the universal drive to adolescents is to strive. The individual psychology theory (Adler,
Harold Kelley and John Thibaut’s exchange theory (Kelley and Thibaut, 1978) assumes that people try to maximize their rewards in life and minimize their cost. According to the theory, people assess a relationship by its outcome-their subjective perception of the rewards of the relationship minus its costs.
Michael Oher wanted to maximize his reward by going pro. He wanted to minimize his cost which was growing up in a gang neighborhood and not coming from a rich household. He wanted his reward to mean the world to him and wanted people to know that you don’t have to come from a rich household to become a pro football player. He came from basically nothing and became someone who people will remember for a long while.
Low Self-Esteem

The William James theory uses a simple formula which is self-esteem= success/pretensions (James, 1980). Pretensions refer to our goals, values, and what we believe about our potential. If our actual achievements are low and our believed potential and goals are high, we see ourselves as