Meredith J.
Glick
Miami University
Teaching
Seminar, Final Project
Fall 2003
Anxiety
Disorders 3
Dissociative and
Somatoform Disorders 6
Mood Disorders 9
Schizophrenia 13
Personality
Disorders 14
Substance Abuse
and Dependence 19
Sexual
Disorders 23
Fear and Anxiety
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder
Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder
Phobias
Panic
Disorder/Agoraphobia
Anxiety Disorders
Film: Children
of the Corn (1984)
·
Summary
A boy preacher named Isaac goes
to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every
adult in town. A young couple has a murder to report and they go to the nearest
town (Gatlin) to seek help but the town seems deserted. They are soon trapped
in Gatlin with little chance of getting out alive.
·
Scene
A frightening scene occurs near
the beginning of the film a young boy’s throat is slit in the cornfields. The boy then wanders into the street and
gets hit by a car (driven by a young couple).
The boy seems to appear out of nowhere, inspiring great shock and
horror. This scene, or others like it,
can be used to arouse fear sensations in students and lead into a discussion of
how fear and anxiety are similar and different.
Obsessive-Compulsive
Disorder (OCD)
Film: As Good as it
Gets (1997)
·
Summary
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted,
obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring
gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In
addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to
care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
·
Scene
One of the first scenes provides a good overview of
Melvin’s OCD symptoms. After he closes
the door on his neighbor, he locks/unlocks the door several times and washes
his hands with a new bar of soap and scalding hot water. He then walks to his usual restaurant, being
careful not to avoid any cracks in the sidewalk. Once at the restaurant, he throws a fit when he is not able to
sit at his usual table. After getting
his way, by making a disturbance, he settles in for his usual meal, served by
his usual waitress, using his own set of silverware.
Book: Everything in Its Place: My
Trials and Triumphs with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (2000) by Marc
Summers and Eric Hollander
·
Summary
Everything in Its Place is the frank, engaging, and often
hilarious narrative of Summers’s journey from compulsive room cleaner to family
man, talk-show host, and Obsessive Compulsive Foundation spokesperson.
·
Excerpt
From the time I was six years old, everything in my world
had to be perfect. My clothes had to be
folded a certain way. The shirts
hanging in my closet had to be a quarter-inch apart, no more, no less, with all
the hangers facing the same direction.
My books were organized alphabetically and lined up so that they were
exactly the same distance from the lip of the shelf.
Anxiety Disorders
Films:
Fearless (1993)
Born
on the Fourth of July (1989) - PTSD as
well as drug abuse
The
Deer Hunter (1978) - PTSD as well as drug abuse and depression
Songs:
Me
and a Gun – Tori Amos
5 AM, Friday morning
Thursday night, far from sleep
I'm still up and driving
Can't go home, obviously
So I'll just change direction
Cause they'll soon know where I live
And I wanna live, got a full tank and some chips
It was me and a gun
And a man on my back
And I sang "holy holy"
As he buttoned down his pants
You can laugh, it's kinda funny
The things you think
Times like these
Like I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this
Yes I wore a slinky red thing
Does that mean I should spread
For you, your friends,
Your father, Mr. Ed?
It was me and a gun
And a man on my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this
And I know what this means
Me and Jesus, a few years back
Used to hang and he said
It's your choice babe, just remember
I don't think you'll be back
In 3 days time, so you choose well
Tell me what's right,
Is it my right,
To be on my stomach
Of Fred's Seville
It was me and a gun
And a man on my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this
And do you know Carolina?
Where the biscuits are soft and sweet
These things go through your head
When there's a man on your back
And you're pushed flat on your stomach
It's not a classic Cadillac
It was me and a gun
And a man on my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this
No I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this
Films:
Annie
Hall (1977); most Woody Allen films
Films:
High
Anxiety (1977) – Psychiatrist with a fear of heights
Vertigo (1958) – Fear of heights
Films:
Inside
Out (1986)
Copycat (1995)
Dissociative
Amnesia
Dissociative
Fugue
Dissociative
Identity Disorder
Conversion
Disorder
Hypochondriasis
Psychosomatic
Disorders
Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders
Dissociative
Amnesia
Films:
Dead
Again (1991)
Mirage (1965)
Films:
Nurse
Betty (2000)
Films: Sybil (1976)
·
Summary
The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose
childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 16 different
personalities.
·
Scene
There is a scene in the first third of the film where the
audience is introduced to several of Sybil’s personalities during a therapy
session at her psychiatrist’s office and kitchen table. The personalities are presented as separate
individuals—all children—who dress and act very differently. In the next scene, Sybil is asked out on a
date by her neighbor. She calls forth
the personality that is sociable and best-suited to meet the demands of that
particular situation. These scenes show
the distinctiveness of multiple personalities and how they each can serve a
specific purpose.
Identity (2003)
Primal
Fear (1996) – skepticism about DID
Psycho (1960)
The
Three Faces of Eve (1957)
Books:
When
Rabbit Howls (1989) by Truddi Chase
Sybil (1973) by Rheta Flora Schreiber
Conversion Disorder
Films:
Twelve-O’Clock
High (1949)
Films:
My
Girl (1991)
Hannah
and Her Sisters (1986)
Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders
Psychosomatic
Disorders
Songs:
Adelaide’s
Lament – Guys and Dolls
It says here:
The average
unmarried female
Basically
insecure
Due to some long
frustration may react
With
psychosomatic symptoms
Difficult to
endure
Affecting the
upper respiratory tract.
In other words,
Just from waiting
around for that plain little band of gold
A person can
develop a cold.
You can spray her
wherever you figure there's streptococci lurk
You can give her
a shot for whatever's she's got, but it just won't work
If she's tired of
getting the fish eye from the hotel clerk
A person can
develop a cold.
It says here:
The female
remaining single
Just in the legal
sense
Shows a neurotic
tendency, see note: (looks at note)
Chronic organic
syndromes
Toxic or
hypertense
Involving the eye, the ear, the nose, and throat.
In other words,
just from worrying if the wedding is on or off
A person can develop
a cough.
You can feed her
all day with the vitamin A and the bromofizz
But the medicine
never gets anywhere near where the trouble is.
If she's getting
a kind of name for herself, and the name ain't his
A person can
develop a cough.
And further more,
just from stalling, and stalling,
And stalling the
wedding trip
A person can
develop la grippe.
When they get on
that train for Niagara
And she can hear
church bells chime
The compartment
is air-conditioned
And the mood
sublime
Then they get off
at Saratoga for the fourteenth time!
A person can
develop la grippe,
La grippe.
La postnasal
drip.
With the wheezes
And the sneezes
And a sinus
that's really a pip!
From a lack of
community property
And a feeling
she's getting to old
A person can develop a bad, bad cold!
Major Depressive
Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Mood Disorders
Films:
Love
Liza (2002) - Survivor of suicide
Girl,
Interrupted (1999) - also borderline
tendencies
Scent
of a Woman (1992)
Ordinary
People (1980) - Depression, Suicide, PTSD,
family pathology, psychotherapy
It’s a
Wonderful Life (1946) – Adjustment
Disorder with Depressed Mood, Suicide
Books:
She’s Come Undone (1992) by Wally Lamb
The
Bell Jar (1971) by Sylvia Plath
Songs:
Everybody
Hurts – REM
When the day is long and the night, the night is yours
alone,
When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life, well hang on
Don’t let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it’s time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you’ve had too much of this life, well hang on
’cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. Don’t throw your hand. Oh, no. Don’t throw your hand
If you feel like you’re alone, no, no, no, you are not alone
If you’re on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you’ve had too much of this life to hang on
Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes
and everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. You are not alone.
Blue Pastures – James (Suicide)
Blue pastures fade away
Green rivers in silver light
I'm walking to the sound of distant bells
So peaceful I don't know who I am
And just when I think its clear
It turns all gray again
And I wonder who will find me in the snow
And just when I thought I was free
I got pulled in again
Once you're in, you're in
Blue pastures calling home
I'm Walking but I can't stand anymore
Hear voices, can't tell near or far
Weird voices lay me down
And I don't see why I'm obliged
To just carry on
When everything I touch
Turns out wrong
And I feel I've committed some crime
But I don't know what I've done
One day life just wins
One day life just wins
Still breathing
But I'm tired and I want to go home
Still breathing
But I'm not sure anymore
Still breathing
But it doesn't really matter if I fade away
Fall into sleep
Fall into sleep
Mood Disorders
Films: Mr. Jones (1993)
·
Summary
The story about the relationship between
a manic depressive man, Mr. Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a
professional interest in his treatment.
·
Scene
There is an excellent, though somewhat
long, scene depicting Richard Gere’s symptoms of mania. When talking to his therapist, he shows
flight of ideas, and then later shows typical manic behaviors (singing/dancing
in euphoric mood, withdraws money, goes on a spending spree, has a fling with a
stranger, etc.). The scene culminates
with Richard Gere getting up on stage to conduct a symphony’s performance
of—appropriately!—Joyful, Joyful.
Call
Me Anna (1990) – also a book by Patty Duke
Songs: Manic Depression – Jimi Hendrix
Manic Depression's touching my soul,
I know what I want,
but I just don't know how to go about getting it.
Feeling, sweet feeling
drops from my finger, fingers
Manic Depression's captured my soul.
Woman so willing the sweet cause in vain,
you make love,
you break love,
it's-a all the same when it's...
when it's over.
Music sweet music,
I wish I could caress, caress, caress.
Manic Depression's a frustrating mess.
Well, I think I'll go turn myself off an' go on down.
Really ain't no use me hanging around.
Oh, I gotta see you.
Songs: Fire and Rain – James Taylor
Just yesterday morning they let me know
you were gone
Susanne the plans they made put an end to you
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to
I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Won't you look down upon me, Jesus
You've got to help me make a stand
You've just got to see me through another day
My body's aching and my time is at hand
And I won't make it any other way
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Been walking my mind to an easy time my back turned towards the sun
Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around
Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line to talk about things
to come
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you, baby, one more time again, now
Thought I'd see you one more time again
There's just a few things coming my way this time around, now
Thought I'd see you, thought I'd see you fire and rain, now
Mood Disorders
Bipolar Disorder
(cont…)
Book: An Unquiet Mind
(1995) – Kay Redfield Jamison
·
Summary
In An
Unquiet Mind, Jamison examines manic-depression from the dual perspectives of
the healer [Clinical Psychologist and Professor Psychiatry] and the healed,
revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to
resist taking medication. She has
emerged with a memoir of enormous candor, vividness, and wisdom, one of those
rare books that have the power to transform our lives—and even save them (book
jacket).
·
Excerpt
There
is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this
kind of madness. When you’re high it’s
tremendous. The ideas and feelings are
fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find
better and brighter ones. Shyness goes,
the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others
a felt certainty. There are interests
found in uninteresting people.
Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced
irresistible. Feelings of ease, intensity,
power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria provide one’s
marrow. But, somewhere, this
changes. The fast ideas are too fast,
and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Memory goes. Humor and absorption on friends’ faces are replaced by fear and
concern. Everything previously moving
with the grain is now against—you are irritable, angry, frightened,
uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. You never knew those caves were there. IT will never end, for madness carves its
own reality (Jamison, 1995, p. 67).
Films:
A
Beautiful Mind (2001)
The
Caveman’s Valentine (2001) – Paranoid
Schizophrenia
Shine (1996) - unclear diagnosis, though probably Schizophrenia
Benny
& Joon (1993)
Sophie’s
Choice (1982)
I
Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
Books:
Angelhead
(2000) by Greg Bottoms
·
Summary
In pitch-perfect prose, Greg Bottoms
shows with great empathy and dramatic tension the psychological decline of his
brother as he becomes obsessed first with heavy metal music, martial arts, and
the occult, and then with the more bizarre aspects of Christianity. We see not only the effect of Michael’s odd
and increasingly violent behavior has on the people around him, but also come
to understand how the author, now a successful writer and journalist, used the
power of language and storytelling both to save and to forgive his brother
(book jacket).
·
Excerpt
My brother saw the face of God. You never recover from a trauma like that. He was fourteen, on LSD, shouting for help
in the darkness of his room in our new suburban home. I was ten. I stood
watching from his doorway, still, eyes clinched up tight as seams, trying to
make out his writhing shape. I saw for
myself. I didn’t see God, of course,
but I saw my brother seeing God; I saw how petrified he was, how
convinced. I knew, still know, that he
saw, in some form, His or Her or Its face (Bottoms, 2000, p. 1).
Songs:
Schizophrenia
– Sonic Youth
I went away to see an old friend of mine
His sister came over she was out of her mind
She said Jesus had a twin who knew nothing about sin
She was laughing like crazy at the trouble I'm in
Her light eyes were dancing she is insane
Her brother says she's just a bitch with a golden chain
She keeps coming closer saying "I can feel it in my bones
Schizophrenia is taking me home"
My Future is static
It's already had it
I could tuck you in
And we can talk about it
I had a dream
And it split the scene
But I got a hunch
It's coming back to me
Cluster A
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Cluster B
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Cluster C
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Dependent Personality Disorder
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Personality Disorders
Paranoid
Personality Disorder
Films:
Falling
Down (1993)
The
Caine Mutiny (1954)
The
Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)
Schizoid
Personality Disorder
Films:
Remains
of the Day (1994)
Songs:
I am a
Rock – Simon & Garfunkel
A winter's day
In a deep and dark December;
I am alone,
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
Don't talk of love,
But I've heard the words before;
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me;
I am shielded in my armor,
Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.
I touch no one and no one touches me.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
And a rock feels no pain;
And an island never cries.
Schizotypal
Personality Disorder
Films:
Taxi
Driver (1976)
Histrionic Personality
Disorder
Films:
Gone
with the Wind (1939)
A Streetcar Named Desire
(1951)
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Films:
The
Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Henry:
Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
A
Clockwork Orange (1971)
Personality Disorders
Antisocial
Personality Disorder (cont…)
Songs: Gee, Officer Krupke – West Side Story
TIGER,
IMITATING KRUPKE
Hey you!
RIFF
Who me, Officer Krupke?
TIGER, IMITATING KRUPKE
Yeah you, gimme one good reason for not draggin' ya down the station house, ya
punk!
RIFF
Dear kindly Sergeant Krupke
You gotta understand
It's just our bringin' upke
That gets us out of hand
Our mothers all are junkies
Our fathers all are drunks
Golly Moses, naturally we're punks
JETS
Gee, Officer Krupke
We're very upset
We never had the love
That every child oughta get
We ain't no delinquents
We're misunderstood
Deep down inside us there is good
RIFF
There is good!
JETS
There is good, there is good
There is untapped good
Like inside, the worst of us is good
TIGER, IMITATING KRUPKE
That's a touching good story
RIFF
Lemme tell it to the world!
TIGER, IMITATING KRUPKE
Just tell it to the judge
RIFF
Dear kindly Judge, your Honor
My parents treat me rough
With all their marijuana
They won't give me a puff
They didn't wanna have me
But somehow I was had
Leapin' lizards, that's why I'm so bad
SNOWBOY
IMITATING JUDGE
Right! Officer Krupke
You're really a square
This boy don't need a judge
He needs an analyst's care
It's just his neurosis
That oughta be curbed
He's psychologically disturbed
RIFF
I'm disturbed
JETS
We're disturbed, we're disturbed
We're the most disturbed
Like we're psychologically disturbed
SNOWBOY IMITATING JUDGE
Hear ye, hear ye. In the opinion of this court, this child is depraved on
account he ain't had a normal home.
RIFF
Hey, I'm depraved on account I'm deprived!
SNOWBOY IMITATING JUDGE
So take him to a headshrinker. You!
ACTION
Who me?
RIFF
My daddy beats my mommy
My mommy clobbers me
My grandpa is a commie
My grandma pushes tea
My sisters wears a moustache
My brother wears a dress
Goodness gracious, that's why I'm a mess
ACTION IMITATING HEADSHRINKER
Yes, Officer Krupke
He shouldn't be here
This boy don't need a couch
He needs a usefully career
Society's played him a terrible trick
And sociologically he's sick
RIFF
I am sick!
JETS
We are sick, we are sick
We are sick sick sick
Like we're sociologically sick
ACTION IMITATING HEADSHRINKER
In my opinion, this child does not need to have his head shrunk at all.
Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease.
RIFF
Hey, I got a social disease!
ACTION IMITATING HEADSHRINKER
So take him to a social worker
RIFF
Dear kindly social worker
They tell me get a job
Like be a soda jerker
Which means I'd be a slob
It's not I'm antisocial
I'm only anti-work
Glory Osky, that's why I'm a jerk
A-RAB
Eek, Officer Krupke
You've done it again
This boy don't need a job
He needs a year in the pen
It ain't just a question of misunderstood
Deep down inside he's no good
RIFF
I'm no good
JETS
We're no good, we're no good
We're no earthly good
Like the best of us is no damn good
The trouble is he's lazy
The trouble is he drinks
The trouble is he's crazy
The trouble is he stinks
The trouble is he's growing
The trouble is he's grown
Krupke, we've got troubles of our own
Officer Krupke
We're down on our knees
RIFF
'Cause no one wants a fella
With a social disease
JETS
Dear Officer Krupke
What are we to do?
Gee, Officer Krupke
Krup you!
Personality Disorders
Borderline
Personality Disorder
Films: Fatal Attraction
(1987)
·
Summary
Michael
Douglas plays Dan, a happily married New York attorney who becomes sexually
involved Alex (played by Glen Close), a glamorous and sexually aggressive
publishing executive. What starts out
as a simple, one-night affair for Dan turns into a nightmare for him and his
family as Alex becomes increasingly possessive and manipulative.
·
Scene
About a
third of the way into the movie, Dan tells Alex that he can’t continue seeing
her because he is married. Alex first
reacts by screaming and swearing at Dan in an enraged manner, even ripping his
shirt. After he’s gathered his things
to leave, Alex approaches him in a calm, sweet, and remorseful way. Dan hugs her and offers some sympathy. He then notices that Alex has cut her writs
while he was in the other room. He quickly
provides her both medical and emotional attention. The scene ends with Alex promising to get help and Dan promising
to call her. This is an excellent
depiction of rapidly-shifting moods and behaviors, and suicidal acts in the
face of abandonment.
Narcissistic
Personality Disorder
Films: Schindler’s List
(1993)
·
Summary
The true
story of Czech born Oskar Schindler, a businessman who tried to make his
fortune during the Second World War by exploiting cheap Jewish labour. He ended up penniless having saved over 1000
Polish Jews from almost certain death during the holocaust.
·
Scene
A scene
approximately 30 minutes in the film depicts Schindler and his wife eating in a
restaurant/club for dinner. Schindler
hasn’t seen her for several months, and asks if people at home are talking
about him. He expresses his wish that
they’ll soon notice what a name he’s made for himself. He also fantasizes about unlimited success
and fame. Schindler comments that he’s
finally found a way to achieve this fortune and success: the war. This scene demonstrates Schindler’s desire
for unlimited success, admiration, high view of himself, and willingness to
exploit others in order to achieve his goals.
Jerry
Maguire (1996)
Sunset
Boulevard (1950)
Personality Disorders
Narcissistic
Personality Disorder (cont…)
Songs: You’re So Vain – Carly Simon
You walked into the party
Like you were walking onto a yacht
Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
Your scarf, it was apricot
You had one eye in the mirror
As you watched yourself gavotte
And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner
They'd be your partner, and
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?
You had me several years ago
When I was still quite naive
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?
I had some dreams they were clouds in my coffee
Clouds in my coffee, and
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you?
Well, I hear you went up to Saratoga
And your horse naturally won
Then you flew your Lear jet up to Nova Scotia
To see the total eclipse of the sun
Well, you're where you should be all the time
And when you're not, you're with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain
You probably think this song is about you
You're so vain (so vain)
I'll bet you think this song is about you
Don't you? Don't you? Don't you?
Avoidant
Personality Disorder
Films:
The Glass Menagerie
(1950; 1987) – character of Laura
Dependent
Personality Disorder
Films:
What About Bob? (1991)
Obsessive-Compulsive
Personality Disorder
Films:
The Odd Couple (1968) – character of Felix Unger
M*A*S*H
(1970) – character of Major Frank Burns
Alcohol
Cocaine
Heroin
Substance Abuse and Dependence
Alcohol
Films: When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
·
Summary
Meg Ryan portrays a middle-class
alcoholic woman. Melodramatic and
somewhat predictable film but an interesting introduction to AA and
Al-Anon. The film explores the role of
codependency and a husband’s role in his wife’s alcoholism (Wedding &
Boyd,1999).
·
Scenes
A scene early on the film depicts Ryan’s
character hitting rock bottom. She
comes home late from work, drunk. She
yells at and slaps her worried daughter.
Ryan then proceeds to drink anything she can find before taking a
shower. She ends up passing out and
crashing through the glass shower door.
Her daughter finds her and thinks she is dead. Ryan then enters treatment.
This scene shows the consequences alcoholism can have on a family (Ryan
has two young daughters). It is also
portrays a woman as an alcoholic, something rarely done in Hollywood.
One of the powerful ending scenes shows
Ryan’s character sharing her “story” at AA.
She describes her trials and tribulations (and all that she’s lost due
to her alcohol problem), but also expresses hope for the future.
Under the Volcano
(1984)
Days
of Wine and Roses (1962)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Songs:
Alcohol – Barenaked Ladies
Alcohol, my permanent accessory
Alcohol, a party-time necessity
Alcohol, alternative to feeling like yourself
O Alcohol, I still drink to your health
I love you more than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol
Forget the café latte,
screw the raspberry iced tea
A Malibu and Coke for you, a G&T for me
Alcohol, Your songs resolve like
my life never will
When someone else is picking up the bill
I love you more than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol
O Alcohol, would you please forgive me?
For while I cannot love myself
I'll use something else
I thought that Alcohol was just for those with nothing else to do
I thought that drinking just to get drunk
was a waste of precious booze
But now I know that there's a time
and there's a place where I can choose
To walk the fine line between
self-control and self-abuse
I love you more than I did the week before
I discovered alcohol
Would you please ignore that you
found me on the floor
Trying on your camisole?
O Alcohol, would you please forgive me?
For while I cannot love myself
I'll use something else
Would you please forgive me?
Would you please forgive me?
Substance Abuse and Dependence
Cocaine
Films:
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Clean
and Sober (1988) – Cocaine addiction, alcoholism, AA
Scarface
(1983)
Songs: Cocaine
– Eric Clapton
If you wanna hang out, you've gotta take
her out: Cocaine
If you wanna get down, get down on the ground: Cocaine
She's alright,
She's alright,
She's alright,
COCAINE
If you got that lose, you wanna kick them blues: Cocaine
When your day is done, and you wanna ride on Cocaine
She's alright,
She's alright,
She's alright,
COCAINE
If your day is gone, and you wanna ride on: Cocaine
Don't forget this fact: You can't get it back: Cocaine
She's alright,
She's alright,
She's alright,
COCAINE
She's alright,
She's alright,
She's alright,
COCAINE
Heroin
Films:
Trainspotting
(1996)
The
Connection (1961)
Songs: Heroin – Velvet
Underground
I don't know just where I'm going
But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same
When I'm rushing on my run
And I feel just like Jesus' son
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know
I have made the big decision
I'm gonna try to nullify my life
'Cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper's neck
When I'm closing in on death
And you can't help me now, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet talk
You can all go take a walk
And I guess that I just don't know
And I guess that I just don't know…
Substance Abuse and Dependence
Heroin (cont…)
I wish that I was born a thousand years
ago
I wish that I'd sail the darkened seas
On a great big clipper ship
Going from this land here to that
In a sailor's suit and cap
Away from the big city
Where a man can not be free
Of all of the evils of this town
And of himself, and those around
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Oh, and I guess that I just don't know
Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, it's my wife and it's my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then I'm better off and dead
Because when the smack begins to flow
I really don't care anymore
About all the Jim-Jim's in this town
And all the politicians makin' crazy sounds
And everybody puttin' everybody else down
And all the dead bodies piled up in mounds
'Cause when the smack begins to flow
Then I really don't care anymore
Ah, when the heroin is in my blood
And that blood is in my head
Then thank God that I'm as good as dead
Then thank your God that I'm not aware
And thank God that I just don't care
And I guess I just don't know
And I guess I just don't know
Gender Identity
Disorder
Paraphilias
Transvestism
Fetishism
Sadism
Masochism
Pedophilia
Sexual Disorders
Gender Identity
Disorder
Films:
Boys Don’t Cry (1999)
The
Crying Game (1993)
The
World According to Garp (1982)
Books:
Crossing:
A Memoir (1999) by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Songs:
Androgynous
– The Replacements
Here come Dick, he's wearing a skirt
Here comes Jane, y'know she's sporting a chain
Same hair, revolution
Same build, evolution
Tomorrow who's gonna fuss
And they love each other so
Androgynous
Closer than you know, love each other so
Androgynous
Don't get him wrong and don't get him mad
He might be a father, but he sure ain't a dad
And she don't need advice that'll center her
She's happy with the way she looks
She's happy with her gender
Mirror image, see no damage
See no evil at all
Kewpie dolls and urine stalls
Will be laughed at
The way you're laughed at now
Now, something meets Boy, and something meets Girl
They both look the same
They're overjoyed in this world
Same hair, revolution
Unisex, evolution
Tomorrow who's gonna fuss
And tomorrow Dick is wearing pants
And tomorrow Janie's wearing a dress
Future outcasts and they don't last
And today, the people dress the way that they please
The way they tried to do in the last centuries
Transvestism
Films:
To Wong Foo,
Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
La
Cage aux Folles (1978)
The
Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Fetishism
Films:
Crash (1996)
sex,
lies, and videotape (1989)
Equus
(1977)
Claire’s
Knee (1971)
Masochism
Films:
Tie
Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
Cabaret
(1972) – also Sadism
Sexual Disorders
Sadism
Films:
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Pedophilia
Films:
Pretty Baby (1978)
The
Mark (1961)
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