Now lets discuss the psychology knowledgd behind goood will hunting. The content below will discuss the psychoanalysis therapy between Will Hunting and the psychologist Sean McGuire in the movie Good Will Hunting.
Good Will Hunting is a poetic story of a young man’s struggle to find his place in the world by first finding out who he is. (Riley) The film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting, finding out who he is. This film follows a twenty year old South Boston laborer will hunting an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a patient of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor. Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend, his girlfriend, and himself, facing the significant task of thinking about his future.
Will works as a janitor at M.I.T. under the auspices of the Parole Employment Program. That he has solved difficult theorems on the main hallway chalkboard while swabbing floors causes Nobel Prize winner Professor Gerry Lambeau to seek him out. When Will was in jail, Professor Lambeau helped him to find many psychologists as well as solving advanced math problem with him. After too many times failure of psychology therapies, Will’s last chance is a psychology professor – Sean McGuire, who might be the only man who can reach him. Sean takes Will out of the office to a lake, the openness suggesting Will is going to be treated as a human being from now on, not a lab subject. Sean and Will share that they were both victims of child abuse.
During the process of psychoanalysis, Sean helps Will to accept that the abuse he suffered was not his fault. The passionate thematic exploration between worth and value explodes in the climatic last session between Will and Sean. “It’s not your fault” … this is what we’re left with as the summation of Sean’s assessment, a disappointingly shallow slogan in a film with much higher goals. Sean’s best observation is undoubtedly “Maybe you’re perfect,” an unexpected body blow to the perceptions we all seem to have, on some level, of the admirable people we meet who somehow make us uncomfortable. (Robin Williams’ therapy makes ‘Will Hunting’ good) Finally forced to deal with his past, Will discovers that the only one holding him back is himself. This is the trailer.
Developed by Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis is a type of therapy directly connected to Freud’s theory of personality. The goal of psychoanalysis is to help patients understand the unconscious motivations that lead them to behave in specific ways. If the motivations and feelings remain unconscious, those forces are more likely to shape patients’ behavior, without their awareness. According to this theory, only after true understanding is attained can patients choose more adaptive, satisfying and productive behaviors. (Stepuen M.Kosslyn and Robin S. Rosenberg)
From this research, we know that psychoanalysis is useful for those people who injured some mental hurt. What’s more, just like Sean and Will in this movie, one of the most important elements of psychoanalysis is to build enough trust between therapist and patient. At the beginning of this movie, Will is concerned with doing what it takes to get by his activities have no inherent purpose. At last, the therapist is able to convince Will of his self-worth and subsequent value to others, setting up the relationship story solution of expectation. (Huntley)
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Huntley, Monahan. Good Will Hunting. <http://dramatica.com/articles/good-will-hunting>.
- Riley, Erin. Analysis Good Will Hunting. . <http://www.d.umn.edu/~tisbell/Courses/AnalysisGoodWillHunting.html>.
- Robin Williams’ therapy makes ‘Will Hunting’ good. <http://www.widescreenings.com/hunting.html>.
Good Will Hunting is my favorite movie of all time and this was very interesting to read about and understand the actual process of Will’s therapy. Adding studies of actual people who underwent psychoanalysis would give clear results on how effective it was, because in the movie of course it is going to work. There should be some kind of question, like how effective it is and could it be harmful to the person undergoing it.