Viewing Psychoanalytic Therapy from the Movie "Doctor Edward"

Dean 2021-12-22 08:01:02

1. Analysis of the basic situation of "Doctor Edward"

The main plot of the film is that a psychoanalyst treats a patient with amnesia and a criminal complex. During the process, the two fell in love, and finally came to light and finally became married. The following is an analysis of the male protagonist JB.

The hero of the film, JB, was originally a medical student who had served as an aviation soldier when he served in the army. When he was stationed in Mount Conbilly, he wrote to Dr. Edward, asking Dr. Edward to heal his nervousness after the crash.

At that time, Dr. Edward was going on vacation and invited JB to go skiing with him. They passed through New York and held a lunch party. Then I arrived in this valley, and there was an accident while skiing. Doctor Edward was in front of him and fell down with a loud bang.

When JB was a child, a slide accident directly led to the death of his younger brother, and he has left a criminal complex in his heart ever since. He felt that he had killed his brother, and at the same time felt pain and guilt for this fictional fact. This past event was deeply suppressed by him in his subconscious.

JB's childhood crime complex made him feel that he killed Dr. Edward while skiing. He felt guilty and scared. In order to "cover up" the fact of the crime, he practiced self-hypnosis, regarded himself as Doctor Edward, and went to the new hospital to perform the duties of the dean.

Although JB "incarnates" as Doctor Edward, he is confused and fearful of the status quo. He didn't remember who he was, he didn't remember all the things in the past, the only thing he could be "sure" was that he knew that Dr. Edward was dead, and that he killed him.

At the same time, due to the perplexity of the crime complex, JB felt fear and anxiety about everything with white vertical stripes, manifested as shortness of breath, muttering, nervousness, and fainting in severe cases. After a patient had an accident, JB was troubled by a crime complex when he rushed to the operation scene, felt guilty and anxious, and finally fainted.

Doctor Peterson discovered the abnormality of JB, and then used psychoanalytic therapy to try to awaken JB's memory. With the help of Dr. Peterson, JB remembered some clips with difficulty, and finally remembered everything and solved his crime complex.

Through the treatment of JB by Dr. Peterson and Dr. Alex in the film, we can understand many theories and methods of psychoanalysis.

2. The theory

of psychoanalysis 1. The explanation of psychoanalysis

in the film. At the beginning of the film, there are several explanations of psychoanalysis. The original text and my translation are as follows:
Our story deals with psychoanalysis, the method by which modern science treats the emotional problems of the sane.
The analyst seeks only to induce the patient to talk about his hidden problems, to open the locked doors of his mind.
Once the complexes that have been disturbing the patient are uncovered and interpreted, the illness and confusion disappear… ..and the devils of unreason are driven from the human soul.
Our story involves psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is used by modern science to treat psychological and emotional problems.

The psychoanalyst only seeks to guide the patient to talk about his (her) hidden problems, thereby opening the door to his heart.

Once the uncomfortable complex of the patient is uncovered and explained, the symptoms and confusion will disappear... The devil will be cast out of the human soul.

2. My understanding of psychoanalysis

After watching this film, I combined the psychoanalytic knowledge I have learned in the past, and I have the following understanding of the theory of psychoanalysis.

(1) Psychoanalysis believes that the reason why people suffer from mental illness and behavioral deviations are directly related to their past experiences.

(2) Among all the experiences of a person, his/her childhood experience has the most important influence on his (her) behavior and emotions in the future.

Example:
"People sometimes feel guilty for things they haven't done, which goes back to their childhood. Children always hope that bad things happen to people they don't like, but once they do happen , And they feel that this is their own fault. This is the crime complex, but it is actually just a child’s nightmare."-Dr. Peterson explained to his patients what a crime complex is in the film.

(3) A person's emotional problems and behavioral deviations can be explained by reasoning.

(4) After these problems are reasonably explained, the patient will understand why he is doing this, so he will no longer be anxious, and his symptoms will gradually disappear.

Example:
"When you figure out why you did these things that are not good for you, and find out when you started doing it, then your symptoms will disappear." Dr. Peterson said to her female patient.

3. Methods of Psychoanalysis

1. Scientific Methodology In the

film, Dr. Peterson's treatment of the male protagonist JB's criminal complex and amnesia is actually a process of fully collecting information and making inferences.

This information includes: the patient's external behavioral performance of emotions, the expression of his own memory, the expression of dreams, and so on.

After collecting this information, psychoanalysts make reasonable explanations for the patient's behavior based on the theory of psychoanalysis, so that the patient understands where his hallucinations and anxiety come from.

2. Methods of collecting information

(1) Persuade patients to fully trust the analyst

(2) Ask patients to express their feelings and thoughts as they please

(3) Ask the patient to tell if anything special happened in the past, especially during childhood.

Example:
In the Empire State Building room, Dr. Peterson asked JB to lie on the bed, and he sat on the side of the bed to guide the other person to remember the past.
Doctor Peterson: Recall your childhood. Did you have a happy childhood?
JB: I feel very painful, but I can't remember anything...it's useless... (preparing to sit up)
Peter: (stop JB) When you were young, you had mom, dad, and some friends, right?
JB: Maybe it is. Maybe there is a wife. Forget it, my memory is blocked...
Peter: ... I'm going to ask you some medical questions next. If a person feels anxious when seeing something brown, why?
JB: It depends on his past experience...
Peter: Obviously you are a doctor.
JB: Maybe, I'm a doctor X.
Peter: If you can remember a small amount of things, you can spread the memory of more things.
JB: No, I can't think of it at all. (Sitting up) There is only one thing in my mind, which is to figure out a logical relationship.
Peter: What is the logical relationship?
JB: Who am I? Who is Dr. Edward? (Pick up the newspaper and read it) The hypothetical patient and Dr. Edward have never seen them since they left Combilly...
Peter: How do you know that you are with Dr. Edward?
JB: I know that if I want to check, I will definitely not go to Dr. Edward's-because I know he is dead. But why would I know that he is dead? Am I with him at the time?
Peter: Where were you?
JB: I don't remember. Logically speaking, I knew I must be there, and I also knew where the body was. The body is hidden, it may be me...
Peter: (Conclusion) In other words, you have been in hallucinations for the past two days. You insist that you killed Dr. Edward without conclusive evidence. You know what this is actually going on. The criminal complex makes you think like this. Then the criminal complex must be traced back to your childhood memories.
JB: I think you are crazy too. What does this have to do with my childhood? As long as the name problem is solved, progress will be made. (Actually, JB is avoiding recollecting his childhood, because he does not remember all the things in the past, why he concludes that these things have nothing to do with childhood)
He: (Continue reasoning) Your name is not included in the police announcement... Explain the number of Dr. Edward You are not in the roster. (Found the scar on JB's hand) What happened to your hand? You must have experienced an accident! Where did it happen? What happened to your hand? Have you had surgery in the past six months? Third-degree burns on the skin...your hand once burned! Where is the burn? Think about it! (Repealed repeatedly)
JB: (High tension, eyes fixed on the wound, shortness of breath, fidgeting) Hand injury... The fire burns my hand... (Suddenly calms down)
Peter: Are you okay?
JB: What happened just now?
Peter: The incident of your hand injury can't bring back memories of your past. Where is the beginning of the matter, there is no clue.

(During this conversation, Dr. Peterson reasoned that JB used to be a doctor. He might not have killed Dr. Edward. It was only out of a criminal complex that he insisted that he killed Dr. Edward. This illusion made him lost. Original memory, and always feel anxious.)

(4) Observe whether the patient is particularly sensitive to certain things, and ask why the patient is so sensitive to these things.

Example:
Dr. Peterson and JB came to Dr. Alex’s house. In the room, JB was afraid of the white vertical striped sheets. Doctor Peterson noticed this detail. She recalled that something similar made JB nervous before: the white sheets in the operating room, the white robe, etc. She immediately asked JB what he had remembered, and asked JB to look at the bed sheet. JB was in a coma due to overstimulation. Doctor Peterson was happy to get new clues.
(It can be seen that psychoanalysts must have keen insight, observe the subtle emotional changes of the patient, and discover what makes the patient have such emotional changes, so as to track the significance of this stimulus to the patient)


(5) Ask the patient to say Come out of your dreams, and the more detailed the better.

Example:
Like Dr. Peterson, Dr. Alex asked JB to trust and rely on the doctor. He said to JB: "As long as you think of anything, tell me, no matter what you think of, You have to keep talking to me."
JB: "I can't remember anything."
Ai: "Then have you dreamed of anything?"
JB: "... Yes ."
Ai: "What did you dream of? "
JB:" I do not believe that dreams ...... "
Ai:" you do not believe in dreams, is plagued by crime complex, do not know who he is ...... ...... you need me to help you put your dreams tell me, I'll help you Explain, so you can solve your mystery. Who are you, why you do these things, these mysteries are presented in your subconscious. But you don’t want to know, people always don’t want to know the facts about themselves, because they Feeling that these things make them sick, it makes them really sick.
"Now, we start with your dreams. Dreams can tell you what you want to hide and why you want to hide these things. Those who analyze dreams must examine these chaotic dreams, put together the chaotic fragments, and finally find out the truth of the facts. "

(6) For patients with amnesia, the analyst will ask the patient to re-experience the last scene, so as to stimulate the patient's memory, it was the scene from the memories

example:
Peterson doctor left the hotel and went to Central Station JB Peterson doctor. I thought that if JB had indeed come out of the Campbell Mountains with Dr. Edward at that time, he would have passed through this station. Then JB must have heard Dr. Edwards say where he was when he bought the ticket. So Dr. Peterson asked JB to buy the ticket and asked as the conductor When he was going, he wanted to tell what Dr. Edward had said at the time—a place he couldn't remember now.
Doctor Peterson said to JB this way: "When you walk to the ticket window, try to relax, try to remember what Dr. Edward said at the time, and then you say the same thing, ask for two identical tickets."
During the line up. JB is highly anxious. He is breathing so fast that he almost runs away. Peterson emphasized in his ear: "When he asks you where to go, you just say the name of the place that Dr. Edward said!"
When the scene of buying a ticket finally happened, JB thought of "Rome", and Dr. Peterson immediately responded. The conductor named a similar place name and bought two tickets. At this time, JB was almost crippled due to the suspension of high anxiety.

(7) In order to remind patients of more past events, medications that promote memory are administered to patients as appropriate.

Example:
Not long after the beginning of the film, in order to treat a patient with a criminal complex, Dr. Peterson discussed with the "Doctor Edward" (ie JB) whether it is necessary to administer memory-enhancing drugs to remind the patient of childhood events as early as possible .

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  • Eloy 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    Sure enough, the hypnotism movie hypnotized me.// The two dreams I often had when I was a child were, standing on the back seat of my father's bicycle at night, and the path was full of orangutans and monkeys traversing the green road; I stood on my balcony and found the downstairs surrounded beasts such as lions and tigers, trapped at home

  • Therese 2022-03-23 09:02:09

    The control of eyes in Xi Fat's films is really incisive, whether it is the eyes of the actors or the eyes on the wall, it makes people shudder. Dali's design and set art are also really high-level, and they are integrated with Xi Fat's suspense. Bergman's temperament is also the reason why he is favored by directors such as Xifa, Rossellini, Bergman, Moreland, and Curtis. The disadvantage is that the application of Freudian dream analysis is too superficial and casual.

Spellbound quotes

  • Dr. Alex Brulov: There's lots of happiness in working hard. Maybe the most.

  • John Ballantine: That Freud stuff's a bunch of hooey.

    Dr. Alex Brulov: Oh, you are a fine one to talk! You have a guilt complex and amnesia and you don't know if you are coming or going from somewhere, but Freud is hooey! *This* you know! Hmph! Wiseguy.