Television’s “Crazy Lady” Trope: Female Psychopathic Traits, Teaching, and Influence of Popular Culture

Cerny, Cathleen A.; Friedman, Susan Hatters; Smith, Delaney

doi:10.1007/s40596-014-0035-9

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“…[2010]), portrays women as mentally unstable (Cerny, Friedman, & Smith, 2014), and can even increase aggression (Ward & Carlson, 2013). Social media emphasize quantity over quality of friendships, discounting what makes long-term friendships work.…”

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Selfobject Experience in Long-Term Friendships of Midlife Women

Piotrowski

2018

Psychoanalytic Social Work

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Few psychodynamic thinkers have explored friendship from a selfpsychological perspective. Many have suspected, but this study is the first of its kind to demonstrate through a rigorous qualitative research process that selfobject needs are, in fact, experienced in friendships. This phenomenological study offers an in-depth exploration of how 13 midlife women experienced their long-term friendships. Factors promoting structure building and cohesion strengthening are present in friendships. Learning how one's client approaches friendships can offer clinical insight into selfobject needs, since one's pattern of approaching relationships is enacted in friendships. Offering a psychodynamic understanding of friendship deepens therapeutic understanding of self. KEYWORDS self psychology; life course theory; midlife women; friendship Few psychodynamic thinkers have examined friendship and even fewer have been interested in friendship from a self-psychological perspective. Unconscious processes that ensue in friendships have been largely ignored. When friendships have been considered through a psychodynamic lens, the process has involved observations and experience, not research. Furthermore, literature on the topic has typically focused on psychiatric populations instead of healthy individuals (Galatzer-Levy & Cohler, 1993) while this study involved a non-clinical sample. Long-term friendships are psychologically significant in getting one's needs met and are an important protective factor against negative feeling states, yet little is known about psychodynamic aspects of friendships between midlife women, a population with the highest rate of depression (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). Until this study, there was no research on friendships in midlife women from a psychodynamic perspective, which results in very limited understanding of in-depth processes in this key relationship. The modern depiction of friendship through reality television is infused with conflict (up to 84.67 times per hour according to Coyne, Robinson, and Nelson CONTACT Michelle Piotrowski

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Selfobject Experience in Long-Term Friendships of Midlife Women

Piotrowski

2018

Psychoanalytic Social Work

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“…The women characters obtained 4 and 11 points in the MGH PDC, respectively the highest and the lowest scoring of the study. The use of sexual manipulation, the verbal and social violence and the emotional instability illustrated the different gender characteristics, found in antisocial women 20 .…”

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“…The review evidenced studies that discussed the teaching of personality features through movies 18 , the search for clinical profiles of psychopathic characters from the movies 11 , the teaching of psycopathy related concepts through movies 19 , the characteristics and the teaching of psycopathy through female characters on television programs 20 , analysis of a psychopathic character in the cinema 21 , the context of development of behavior disorder and evolution to APD in a Brazilian film 22 , the identification of several disorders in the cinema, among of which APD in foreign films 23 and, finally, the identification of APD in Brazilian films 24,25 .…”

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The antisocial personality disorder in the Brazilian movies

Honorato

Oliva

Castaldelli-Maia³

et al. 2018

J. bras. psiquiatr.

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Objective: The antisocial personality disorder (APD) is one theme of interest for psychiatry/mental health students and professionals. The access to psychopathology aspects by means of movies is able to improve the understanding about these disorders. This study aimed at evaluates the frequency of APD and of its diagnostic criteria in the Brazilian cinema for teaching purposes. Methods: The method consisted of survey sampling (for convenience, once the study is extracted from another greater project); use of a diagnostic instrument and analysis of the results. Results: 44.73% of the personalities were diagnosed with APD. All the diagnostic criteria for APD were present. The most frequent criterion was the practice of illegal acts. Impulsivity was associated with aggressiveness in 29.4% of the cases and with the use of psychoactive substances in almost 30% of the cases. 35.3% of the characters had a premature and violent death. Conclusion: The research enabled the identification of APD diagnostic criteria in the Brazilian cinema. Many scenes were able to represent the diagnosis clearly. The data proved to be sufficient in indicate the potentiality of the material as a didactic and pedagogical foundation.

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“…Star Wars is a hero's journey with archetypal themes including finding one's place in the universe and dealing with loss. Despite other films' usefulness in psychiatric teaching, 1 Star Wars has been relatively untapped, aside from early writings about psychoanalytic concepts and a recent debate about Darth Vader's personality. [2][3] To rectify this, we have recently described the use of the major heroes and villains of Star Wars in teaching.…”

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