Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder that is characterized by emotional disturbance. However, her conduct in Claymore suggest that she`s not the one who wants to be treated: she has sex with her boyfriend during his visits to the hospital and kisses with the young attendant. Patients and diagnoses Most of the other patients in the hospital are clearly worse off than Susanna. Daisy and Lisa are perhaps the most interesting supporting
Girl Interrupted is about the story of a nineteen year old girl during the 1960's named Susanna who, after a suicide attempt, gets admitted into a psychiatric institution (Claymore) and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. During her stay at the Claymore Hospital, Susanna quickly becomes familiar to a number of the institution's residents. These residents included Georgina, a pathological liar, Polly, a terminally fearful burn victim, Daisy, an incest victim and extremely withdrawn agoraphobic and Lisa, a charming, but manipulating sociopath. The focus of this paper will be the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment that Susanna experiences throughout the film. Borderline personality disorder is characterized by extreme shifts in mood lasting only a few hours at a time.
Girl, Interrupted In the book Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen tells of her experience as a patient in a psychiatric hospital. Although a doctor, according to Kaysen, referred her to McLean Hospital within twenty minutes of interviewing her, Susanna voluntarily enters herself. She did this for two reasons; one, because of her legal age of eighteen and two, for fear that she would be forced to enter either way – though she later learns that she could not have been made or forced to enter McLean. The date of her admittance into McLean was April 27, 1967 and Kaysen’s story describes her one and a half year stay there. The book is written in many very short chapters describing different memories Kaysen has from her time at McLean, what led her there, and the people she met while a patient.
The movie, Girl Interrupted is about an eighteen-year-old girl, named Susanna Kaysen. She spent two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clients-Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles. The movie clearly defines the worlds perceptive of a mental hospital, and what goes on there. The yelling, screaming, and carrying on with the patients and nurses, is all of what is perceived to happen at a psychiatric hospital. In the book, its more in detail, the words carefully chosen, effectively creates a mental picture as you read the book.
Analysis of Girl Interrupted The movie that I watched was “Girl Interrupted”. The movie takes place some time in the 60’s inside of a psychiatric facility located in Massachusetts. The movie is centered on one character named Susanna and the different encounters she has with other patients in the facility. Susanna is a young girl who is committed to the psychiatric facility after she takes a bottle of aspirin and chases it down with a bottle of vodka. While in the psychiatric ward this is where she is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder.
It refers to patterns of attitudes that are considered to be antisocial and criminal by society at large, but are seen as normal or necessary by the subculture or social environment in which they developed” (Babiak & Hare, 2007, p. 26). In other words, sociopath behavior is a condition of learning and environment. Additionally, a sociopath may have the ability to empathize and have a developed conscience (Babiak & Hare, 2007). On the other hand, a psychopath’s diagnosis may be more neurologically based and are lacking in a conscience. Diagnosing Psychopathy The most frequently used diagnostic tool for determining psychopathy is the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R).
Originally a book, the movie Girl Interrupted is based on the author, Susanna Kaysen’s, 18 month stay in a mental institution during the 1960’s. Throughout the film multiple characters are introduced all of whom posses their own unique psychological disorder. In Girl Interrupted, Angelina Jolie plays the part of Lisa Rowe a woman diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder or more commonly known a sociopath. This personality disorder involves a lack of ethical or moral development. Some common characteristics of a sociopath or someone with antisocial personality disorder include a lack of anxiety, guilt, morality, or identity.
Abnormal Psychology Please answer the following questions completely using your notes or text when needed to justify your answers. 1. After watching the film, why do you think the movie title is Girl, Interrupted? The movie was titled girl interrupted because the character Suzanna had her life put on hold so she can go to this mental institution and while she was there she made friends with Lisa who was causing her to become worse but as soon as Lisa was out of the picture she started to show progress which was being interrupted by Lisa. 2.
James Mangold: Girl Interrupted In 1999, Director James Mangold, turned the best-selling memoir Girl Interrupted by American author Susanna Kaysen relating her experiences as a young woman in a psychiatric hospital during the 1960’s, into a film of the same name starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie. Critics explained that adapted from Kaysen’s memoir, the film works well to bring Kaysen’s words to life (Gabi) and is a must for everyone who is seeking for a deep, thoughtful, and emotional film as well as great actors! (Buettner). In Mangold’s unhappy drama, we meet Susanna Kaysen, a depressed 18-year old who’s suicide attempt lands her in a mental institution, where she befriends a band of troubled woman in her ward, but falls into the hypnotic sway of a woman named Lisa the wildest of the bunch. After getting into trouble and standing up to Lisa’s cruelty, Susanna undergoes a dramatic change from being a directionless teen, to a confident knowledgeable woman pursuing her treatment seriously and leaving the institution behind.
This is manifested during the transition episodes in which Eve Black emerges and Mrs. White reported no knowledge of her words and actions as Eve Black. She reported hearing voices which sounded like her own and felt impulses that she has no control over. She experiences disorientation (disturbance of orientation in time, place or person) that confused and disturbed her greatly. Intermittent headaches and blackouts worsened and even led to an unfounded aggression (motor counterpart of anger), harming her daughter in the process. This results to her falling into depression (psychopathological feelings of sadness) and opting to seek for help in