Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Antisocial Personality Disorder


Antisocial Personality Disorder
Silence of the Lambs
Silence of the Lambs is a movie about the FBI trying to catch a serial killer Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill is killing women to make a suit for him to wear because he wants to be women. The FBI sends a new agent to a mental asylum to talk to Doctor Hannibal Lector who is a very gifted psychologist but is also a notorious serial killer his self and a cannibal. The FBI is hoping that Dr. Lector will help them catch Buffalo Bill. The FBI sends young women Clarice Starling to talk to lector. She trades stories from her personal life to feed lectors sick gifted mind. So he will help her catch Buffalo Bill. At the end Buffalo Bill is caught. But Hannibal Lector escapes the asylum and contacts Clarice.
This relates to psychology in many ways the first way is that doctor lector is a psychologist with antisocial personality disorder but he understands what going on in his own mind. You can find antisocial personality disorder on page 486 in chapter 12. Buffalo Bill also has Antisocial Disorder, which is long-term, persistent pattern of impulsive, selfish, unscrupulous, and even criminal behavior.
Buffalo Bill can also relate to chapter 8 motivation and emotion. On page 312 they talk about sexual orientation. In the movie Hannibal talks about Buffalo bill being a homosexual. Homosexual is term referring to gay me and lesbians whose sexual desire or behavior is focused on members of their own sex.

2 comments:

dkasprak said...

Clarice's personality had to have been very different to take the risk of revealing personal information to Dr. Lector. Taking risks that could mean the end of her life would be the result of an extraverted personality that must feel very secure within herself. Either that or she was not very intelligent.
Doris

cheryl mckenzie said...

Clarice must be a very caring person to put herself in harms way. Or she is out of her mind. she must also be very secure with herself and the people around her to do that.