Psychosocial Assessment of Good Will Hunting December 06‚ 2011 Identifying Information Will Hunting is a 20 year-old Caucasian male of Irish decent. He turned 21 before the time he was terminated from therapy. He was always casually dressed in slacks‚ or jeans and t-shirt or short sleeves shirt like most youths or teenagers. Although he had few clothes as evidenced by the fact that he wore the same two or three outfits to all his therapy sessions‚ his clothes were always clean. Referral
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Good Will Hunting Good Will Hunting is an unusual character portrait of a self-taught genius named Will Hunting‚ who grew up as an orphan in South Boston‚ suffered abuse at the hands of his foster father and engaged in gang violence because of his rough upbringing as a child. Will is a mathematical genius with a photographic memory but struggles to find his place in the world. Will works as a school janitor at M.I.T‚ one of the prestigious technical universities around‚ while working‚ he delights
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Fabian Gonzales Mrs. Schuler Writing 836 Feb. 8‚ 2011 Good Will Hunting Sometimes our past can cause pain that doesn’t allow us to trust others. People we trust can cause us to put up a wall and look to other things for comfort. In the movie‚ Will Hunting found his comfort in books. Will Hunting needed a real friendship to help him open up his mind in order to discover that there is more to life than living through the books he reads. In the movie‚ there are four main characters‚ each
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Good Will Hunting Though Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius level-intelligence (such as solving sophisticated mathematical problems)‚ works as a janitor at a prestigious college in Boston and lives alone in a few apartment in South Boston. Even though Will is one of a kind genius‚ he is an abused foster child resulting for him to destruct his own professional and emotional life. Will solved the problem of Professor Gerald Lambeau‚ a Field Medalist‚ left on a challenge to his students in the
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A janitor at MIT‚ Will Hunting has a gift for math and chemistry that can take him light-years beyond his blue-collar roots‚ but he doesn’t realize his potential and can’t even imagine leaving his childhood Boston South End neighborhood‚ his construction job‚ or his best friend. To complicate matters‚ several strangers enter the equation: a brilliant math professor who discovers‚ even envies‚ Will’s gifts‚ an empathetic shrink who identifies with Will’s blue-collar roots‚ and a beautiful‚ gifted
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Introduction Social- Cognitive theory believes that humans are individuals who are capable of proactively making things happen to assist in their own development (Parajes‚ 2002). In Good Will Hunting‚ Will Hunting did not believe that he was able to make a positive change in his life. Will is a prodigy‚ particularly in mathematics‚ who did not recognize his gift. He was born and raised in the slums‚ where he is now comfortable. He was abandoned by his parents and in and out of numerous foster homes
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Signe Olson Good Will Hunting - 9/21/2016 In the film‚ Good Will Hunting‚ Will is portrayed as a troubled kid with a tricky backstory but an amazing talent. He comes across as intelligent but problematic‚ and seems to have a lot of baggage that no one has cared enough to sort out. He doesn’t attend school because he sees it as a waste of money‚ yet he works at a school as a janitor and that’s where he gets his big break. His friends are people who seem to have the same lifestyle as him (they
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Movie Analysis Sociological Perspective: Good Will Hunting SOC103 A Ms. Lim Siow Fei Dier Pulatov J14016731 Aiman Azri Azmi J14016347 Jeffry Tlerey Lister J14016755 Content: 1. Introduction 3 2. Synopsis 3 3. Structural Functionalism 4 4. Social Conflict
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Good Will Hunting (1997)‚ a popular and successful American movie directed by Gus Van Sant‚ is set in Boston‚ and the main character is a young man‚ Will‚ (Matt Damon) who is a genius brain and suffered trauma in his childhood. This movie describes the boy’s conflicts and the relationships among him and the people who surrounding him. It is interesting to examine how elements of psychoanalysis are used in this movie‚ including sublimation‚ projection‚ and repression. First‚ a primary example of
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In the movie Good Will Hunting‚ Will Hunting (the main character) meets a girl named Skylar at a bar‚ who immediately has an interest in him. When it comes down to the topic of finding your soulmate there are endless possibilities on how the journey to realizing they are the one‚ will be. Growing up Skylar went to private schools. In the movie she is currently attending Harvard and then plans to go to Stanford for Med School. Her mother is out of the picture‚ she was never mentioned in the movie
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