Tirrell Drugs
How accurate is the portrayal of drugs in this movie?
Let us be honest, the main protagonist is not Rooney Mara as Emily Taylor or Jude Law as Dr. Jonathan Banks. It's pharmaceutical drugs. They are constantly affecting directly and indirectly the lives of every character in the movie. If we take this into consideration an important question arises. Are drugs portrayed accurately in this film?
Could medication be dangerous?
Something in the movie that I found really interesting and that I covered before in this post: ( A comparison between Psychoanalytic therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and psychopharmacology) http://hbookreviews.blogspot.com/2015/05/psychoanalytic-therapy.html is that "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did a review in 2004 of clinical trials and found that four percent of children and adolescents that took antidepressants thought about or attempted suicide ("Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)"). Two percent of the people who took a placebo attempted suicide. This means that taking an antidepressant doubles your risk of committing suicide. As a result, the FDA put a black box warning the following year in order to alert the consumer and …show more content…
Tirrell. Tirrell was accused of murdering a woman by slicing her throat and setting fire to the building. He was married and she was his mistress. In the end, the defense was successful. The oldest one was California v. Reitz. He also killed his lover. Reitz "smashed her head with a flowerpot, leaving shards in her scalp, dislocated her arm, punctured her with a plastic fork, fractured her wrist, ribs, jaw, facial bones, and skull, and, wielding a pocketknife, left three gaping stab wounds on the back of her neck (talk about overkill) (Lyon, 2009). It's hard to prove causation (that you can kill someone while sleepwalking), but at least we know that a jury may find said person
Let us be honest, the main protagonist is not Rooney Mara as Emily Taylor or Jude Law as Dr. Jonathan Banks. It's pharmaceutical drugs. They are constantly affecting directly and indirectly the lives of every character in the movie. If we take this into consideration an important question arises. Are drugs portrayed accurately in this film?
Could medication be dangerous?
Something in the movie that I found really interesting and that I covered before in this post: ( A comparison between Psychoanalytic therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and psychopharmacology) http://hbookreviews.blogspot.com/2015/05/psychoanalytic-therapy.html is that "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did a review in 2004 of clinical trials and found that four percent of children and adolescents that took antidepressants thought about or attempted suicide ("Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)"). Two percent of the people who took a placebo attempted suicide. This means that taking an antidepressant doubles your risk of committing suicide. As a result, the FDA put a black box warning the following year in order to alert the consumer and …show more content…
Tirrell. Tirrell was accused of murdering a woman by slicing her throat and setting fire to the building. He was married and she was his mistress. In the end, the defense was successful. The oldest one was California v. Reitz. He also killed his lover. Reitz "smashed her head with a flowerpot, leaving shards in her scalp, dislocated her arm, punctured her with a plastic fork, fractured her wrist, ribs, jaw, facial bones, and skull, and, wielding a pocketknife, left three gaping stab wounds on the back of her neck (talk about overkill) (Lyon, 2009). It's hard to prove causation (that you can kill someone while sleepwalking), but at least we know that a jury may find said person