Watching movies has already become one of the important essential elements of our life. Psychology movie is one of them. With the growth of movie production, we can see more and more psychology movies are gradually familiar with people and reflect many different psychology problems. Actually, movies can easily lead us to psychology world and here are some really good movies that I want to discuss in the following blogs.
First let’s start at Shutter Island which researched by Yolanda. In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels was going to invest a disappear murder that escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby. The hospital is on an island (Shutter Island (2010) – IMDb ). Actually, Teddy’s real name is Laeddis and he is a patient of that island for two years. He is a soldier of America during the Second war; he cannot forgive himself because he didn’t save the people in Germany’s Concentration Camp on time. His wife has serious depredepression. She burned their house at first, and after they moved she drown their 3 kids depression and drown their three kids in the river of their garden. Laeddis was so upset, he shot his wife. He also became an extreme mental disorder patient. He always denied what happened to him and created another world in his mind. In the world he created, he is still a sheriff from government. He’s doctor on the island is his partner from government, he came to the island because three mission: Caught a escaped patient who drown her 3 kids; find the to the island because he needs to find thee arson of their apartment who caused the death of his wife; he believe the island keep a dirty secret which is use innocent patients do surgery. In order to cure Laeddis, the dean of the hospital and the doctor decided to arrange two days to cooperate Laeddis, make everything he thought into relative, that is also the advanced treatment – role play and let himself found how wrong he is. If it is not work this time they have to send Laeddis to accept lobar lobotomy, because he was trained soldier and he is the most dangerous patient on the island who almost hurt everyone there. This is the trailer.
This is a very attracting movie because about dreams, minds and medicine, it shows the intelligent of western director. And shows us the will of the western movie – more aims at people’s minds and thought, under the infection of Laeddis. We need to have a deeply thought, even that, every answer hears right (Who is that in your mind?–Shutter Island–by Oliver). Except movie itself, we need to think another question which is if it is right use surgery therapy – lobar lobotomy to treat patients especially Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a kind of psychology trauma which made under these conditions: experience or witness an event that involves actual or threatened serious injury or death; respond to the situation with fear and helplessness. And 3 set of symptoms: A sense of reliving the PTSD the experience; avoid anything associated with it; start easily and hard to fall in sleep. These symptoms do not always appear immediately after the traumatic, however, they can persist for months to years (PSYCHOLOGY – THE BRIAN THE PERSON THE WORLD). For these psychotic patients, lobotomies were sometimes beneficial, it can calming the patient so that he or she could live a relatively normal life. Lobotomies were historically used to treat patients with psychological illnesses and behavioral disorders like PTSD; in the 1950s, they were largely phased out and replaced with medications, talk therapy, and other forms of treatment. As a general rule, lobotomies are not performed today, and many people think that they are actually quite inhuman (What is a lobotomy? (With pictures)). And from the movie we can tell if it is not really have to, they won’t send patients to that surgery too. Another treatment is using medicine, in the movie is Chlorpromazine – it works by changing the actions of chemicals in your brain. But at the same time chlorpromazine may cause heart failure, sudden death, etc (Chlorpromazine (oral) medical facts from drugs.com). Now days there are some doctors use MDMA to try to cure it, it is drug as we all know. Another way is cognitive behavioral therapy. It can be an effective for PTSD treatment. Both individual and group therapies are used to identify the trauma and the symptoms that are caused by it. Treatment identifies the symptoms and increases the individual’s ability to recognize and overcome the disorder (Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) and addiction).
From the research we can tell how much suffering the patient and his family will take if someone got PTSD or psychology issue. We really hope the doctors can figure out a way to cure them and release their pain in a proper way as soon as they can. And I really know it is really important for us to have a healthy mind.
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. PEKING UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2014. 596.Chlorpromazine (oral) medical facts from drugs.com.2014.6.1. <http://www.drugs.com/mtm/chlorpromazine.html>.
.2014. 6. 1. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt11308844.What is a lobotomy? (With pictures).2014.6.1 <http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-lobotomy.htm>.
Who is that in your mind?–Shutter Island–by Oliver. 2014. 6. 1. <http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_d38e96c40101etn8.html>
Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD) and addiction. 2014. 6. 1.<http://www.recoveryconnection.org/addiction-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-treatment/>.