The film titled Girl‚ Interrupted tells a story about a young woman‚ named Susanna‚ who was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder‚ due to‚ her erratic behaviour and attempting suicide by consuming an entire bottle of pills. Susanna’s parents‚ especially‚ find her actions to be a burden and problematic and collectively make a life changing decision for their “troubled” daughter. After consulting a psychiatrist‚ Susanna is sent to a psychiatric hospital to treat her new diagnosed mental illness
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Abstract This paper analyses the Borderline Personality Disorder. The analysis is based on the movie " Girl Interrupted". This movie is based on a true story of Susanna Kaysen. The paper presents the description of disorder based on DSM-IV-TR and The National Institute of Mental Health [NIMH]. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by impulsivity‚ unstable and intense interpersonal relationships‚ an unstable self-image‚ frantic efforts to avoid perceived abandonment‚ inappropriate
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Throughout the beginning of Frederick Treves’s The Elephant Man‚ the character of John Merrick was simply a man that never got the chance to live a normal life. From the day he was born‚ his unfortunate physical deformities led him through a never ending cycle of ridicule‚ repudiation‚ and distress. This “monster” was considered to be a “burden that must be rid of” (185) for the greater portion of his being‚ compelling him to prefer a life of isolation rather than choosing to experience the everyday
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Con Spec Pops 2-10-2013 Joseph Merrick- The Elephant Man The movie The Elephant Man highlighted many different aspects of the human nature; people who interacted with the Elephant man each had different responses to him. Joseph Merrick also known as the elephant man was a heavily disfigured man‚ who throughout his life comes into contact with many different individuals. Joseph spent most of his life being mistreated by the people who he came into contact with. The only person that treated Joseph
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Susanna Kaysen‚ in her memoir Girl‚ Interrupted‚ recounts her eighteen-month stay at a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts. The events in the book took place in the 1960’s‚ meaning outside the hospital’s reinforced walls‚ the world was bustling with racism‚ social activism‚ and the Vietnam War. The story is not told as a chronological series of events‚ but rather as a collection of memories‚ darting between various periods of Kaysen’s visit. Throughout her stay at the hospital‚ Kaysen met a variety
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Film Review “Girl‚ Interrupted” Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder‚ which is under the large umbrella of metal disorders. BPD is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods‚ interpersonal relationships‚ self-image‚ and behavior. This instability often disrupts family and work life‚ long-term planning‚ and the individual’s sense of self-identity. However‚ according to Susanna Kaysen‚ doesn’t everyone have some of these symptoms every once
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Cited: PAGE Quote #1- Page 21-FREEDOM- Girl‚ Interrupted Quote #2- Page 80-SECURITY SCREEN-Girl‚ Interrupted Quote #3 Page 54-CHECKS-Girl‚ Interrupted Girl‚ Interrupted- By Susanna Kaysen Copyright 1993 Originally published by Turtle Bay Books‚ A Division of Random House‚ INC‚ NY 1993 Web Pages . www.antipsychiatry.org Article on------- Psychiatry ’s Electro-convulsive
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Analysis of Girl Interrupted: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder Mia Rainone University of New Hampshire Analysis of Girl Interrupted: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder “Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60s. Or maybe I was just a girl‚ interrupted” (Wick & Mangold‚ 1999). Girl Interrupted is about an
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The movie Girl‚ Interrupted is based on the book Girl‚ Interrupted‚ by Susanna Kaysen. I would like to say that it is loosely based because although the actress‚ Winona Ryder‚ does portray Kaysen’s borderline personality‚ it seems that Angelina Jolie‚ who is Lisa Rowe in the movie‚ steals the spotlight. Girl‚ Interrupted is about a young girl who is put into the mental ward after an attempted suicide which she claims she was basically trying to leave a lot of stress she had from various experiences
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Girl Interrupted (1999) is a film depicting a youthful female in the 1960s battling with the instability of her own emotional sickness (Mangold‚ (n.d.)). With the influence of her parents‚ Susanna Kayson concedes herself into a psychiatric and is later determined to have Borderline Personality Disorder. Her fight demonstrates that those agonies from a psychiatric disorder may not generally meet the cliché picture depicted by the overall population. Other characters in this film did a fabulous depiction
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