Alex Forrest is a young, single woman in her thirties who has an obsessive relationship with her one-night stand lover who is happily married. Alex is an editor for a publishing company. She leaves an impression of an independent, successful, emancipated and highly functional person. Alex’s psychological status can be best described through her relationship with Dan, her one night stand. Namely, after spending a weekend with Alex, Dan, otherwise a happily married man, distances himself from her. This event triggered a kind of a psychological deterioration for Alex, causing her to display her obsession for Dan by stalking him and his family and engaging in different kinds of manipulative and aggressive behaviors. The defining characteristics of Alex’s psychological status are arguably fear of abandonment and splitting, marked by intense switches from idealizing to devaluation of Dan, the key figure she …show more content…
Most of these symptoms are apparent in Alex’s psychological and emotional functioning. It can be argued that id dominates her functioning, with the Thanatos being the main drive - Alex displays many destructive and auto destructive behaviors like self injurious behavior and verbal and physical aggression towards Dan and his wife. Also apparent is the lack of impulse control which can also be explained by id’s dominance. Furthermore, object relation is arguably another expression of Alex’s poor ego function, as she tends to perceive relationships a lot closer than they are in
Alex Garcia is more suspicious than the other persons of interest because he was the last one to see Anna alive. He went to Anna’s house to discuss some paperwork, the night before Anna was found dead. It is said that Anna and Alex went through a nasty divorce. He remarried a younger woman, Erica Piedmont. They are now expecting a baby. It is said that they are having financial difficulties. Alex knows that he is still Anna’s beneficiary on her life insurance plan. It is
After Alex’s dad died, his mom got very ill so she didn’t go to work.A week later his mom got fired for not coming in. She had returned to health but had no job, she looked all over
1.what was the psychologists (no name,on the first side of the article)claim in trying to defend Ethan?(cew)
The Alaskan wild, a desolate, harsh terrain that should only be navigated by knowledgeable and precise individuals. In the book Into The wild by Jon Krakauer, readers follow the journey of Alex McCandless, on his nomadic journey through the vast American country side. “To the dessert go prophets and hermits; through the desert go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality” (chapter 4). Alex presents extraordinary intelligence and social skills but his yearning for the outdoors overweighs the constraints of society.
Alex Forrest is a Caucasian female in her mid-thirties. Alex is an editor for a newspaper. She lives alone in a spacious apartment in New York City. She is single, however she is currently involved with a married man and reports that she is pregnant with
Alex realizes that at eighteen he is no longer a child, but rather an adult who has not yet amounted to anything. He comes to realize that he would like to start a family of his own, with a wife and son like Pete. He makes a comparison between youth and a windup toy, saying how they continue moving forward in one direction until there is something to block its path. He says that this is a fundamental fact of youth: youth will always make mistakes, as he has, and that this is what leads to the growth into an adult. He realizes the connection that exists between violence and youth, and that free will is more than just violence but making choices based on morality and thought rather than
Compare and Contrast the approach to studying children’s friendships taken in the Bigelow and La Gaipa (1975) study with that taken by William Corsaro.
The film Girl, Interrupted focused on an eighteen year old girl by the name Susanna that was admitted into a private mental hospital after being accused of a suicidal attempt. The movie follows Susanna on her journey in the institution as she encounters women with different admittance stories. The one who intrigues Susanna the most is Lisa. Lisa is thought to be a sociopath with the way she manipulates those around her to get her way. She is constantly in and out of the institution causing those around to fear, yet admire her. My main focus will be on Lisa and although it was not specified in the film just how old she is, she seemed to be around the same age group as Susanna. This means that, according to Erikson’s Psychosocial Stages, she is on stage five or six. Stage five happens during adolescence where ones primary task is their identity versus their own role in society whereas stage six happens in young adulthood and one faces intimacy versus isolation. The article incorporated gives more insight on how Erikson’s stages play hand in hand with one another and can potentially affect the mental state of someone if not successfully fulfilled. There is also a possibility that, with the ‘symptoms’ of a sociopath, Lisa could have had past problems during what Sigmund Freud considered the anal stage of her childhood.
This side story makes the book more realistic to its audience, all the while showing real life
Alex shows this theme through his decisions in the book. At the beginning of the book he only cared about himself but as he is alone for awhile and then meets Darla he seems to care more for other people he meets, than for himself. He gives more then he gets. He gave little Katie's family food and was there for them when she died. Darla started making decisions like an adult even when her mother was alive. She made food and harvested corn. Darla grew up quickly when they were still on the farm. Alex and Darla grew up when they were with one another. They cared for eachother almost as if they were married. They cooked and traveled well and didn’t let little things bother them. Also after Alex killed multiple people he almost became not as soft as he was. He grew up a lot through killing multiple people, after this he seemed not as afraid to stand up for himself and Darla.
In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer writes about Christopher McCandless, a young man who drops everything in his life to go travel throughout the states and end up in Alaska to find the truth to his questions. But did Chris find the truth he desperately desired? Some would say that McCandless did, other would say that he has wasted his time and was being ignorant and stupid. I agree with the author, Jon Krakauer, that Christopher McCandless was not a crazy lunatic, a sociopath, or an outcast because he had made lots of friends while traveling, but there were times when Chris was incompetent, even though he managed to stay alive for quite awhile. Christopher McCandless had a pretty normal childhood.
Edgar Allan Poe once said, “The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.” A detective investigates the accusations of a traumatized teenager and discovers evidence of a satanic cult. Furthermore, the character Angela Gray, in the film, “Regression”, illustrates a clear example of antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) because of her lack of remorse and empathy for others, repetitive lying, and manipulative behavior for personal gain or pleasure. There are many ways that Angela expresses antisocial personality disorder; one way is that she has a lack of empathy for others and lack of remorse about harming others. From the beginning of the film, Angela lied about her father raping her and placed induced fantasies into others’ heads, which led to death and injustice.
In the beginning of reading the book you read a letter from Alex and he describes himself to the reader he goes on talking about the things he likes and how he has many women that want to be with him and reading this you would think of him as a lady’s man. “… Many girls want to be carnal with me in many good arrangements, notwith- standing the Inebriated Kangaroo, the Gorky Tickle, and the Unyielding Zookeeper. If you want to know why so many girls want to be with me, it is because I am a very premium person to be with. I am homely, and also severely funny, and these are winning things” (2). Alex seems to be a very confident person and outgoing. He seems to have a personality that is very “loud”. The reader is lead to believe that this is Alex’s personality and that he is not a homosexual, throughout the book. Then at the end we see this change and Alex confesses his love to Jonathan in a way that is not plain and
family, a life, and in essence he chooses good for the first time in the
This is a movie that has many real-life relationship problems in it. Alice, the main character has an alcohol problem and because of her problem, she puts her entire family through many hard times. There are four things that can harm a relationship the most, and all of them are done by Alice. At first Alice starts to criticize Alex. She gives him a hard time for many things, including his character. She is hurtful in telling him that he is not doing the right things and that he is making situations worse. She then goes into a state of contempt. She raises her voice, blows smoke in his face, as if she were disgusted by him and goes out of her way to make snide comments. She is using this tactic so much