Three Faces Of Eve White Analysis

The Three Faces of Eve Imagine your normal everyday life, then everything goes black and when you awake you’re unable to recall what happened during that time. This is what happens to Mrs. Eve White, a sweet and innocent house wife. The lapse in time, Eve White is unable to recall specific moments and it starts to cause an impact of her daily life. Her husband, Ralph drives her to meet with a variety of therapists to figure out why she is getting these headaches. The doctors that attempt to treat her; Doctor Luther and Doctor Day. She and her husband worry due to the fact they have a young daughter, Bonnie. Soon these episodes increase in how long they last and another Eve is brought to the surface. The headaches she had been having were from
In the movie, Dr. Luther asked Dr Day if he had a seen a case and he replied that he had not seen any cases, but he would be able to pick out someone faking. Upon observation Dr. Day suggests that she is faking, until she comes back from her “spell”. Mrs. White on the first appointment states she had these terrible headaches which led to blackout periods with amnesia. Mrs. White begins to hear voices and when she is asked what the voice tells her she replies, " To do things like...’ leave Ralph, take Bonnie and run away. All kind of terrible things like that” (The Three Faces of Eve). She is diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, which has been now renamed as Dissociative Identity Disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder “is characterized by the presence of two or more
It was actually my mother who introduced me to this movie many years ago when she had to watch this for her nursing class, so I sat and watched with her and it became a favorite movie. The movie shows a true story of just one patient, but gives deep insight to the struggle she faced with trying to deal with everyday things and depicts life in another time when mental health was just being brought from the shadows more. I think I have always been aware of the stigma attached to mental health as I have experienced it from both sides of the spectrum, and I want to be active in trying to reduce the stigma attached to mental health. I have said and thought about saying in many posts, the person is not the illness they are diagnosed