The movie, Analyze This is a comedic drama that involves a mob leader Paul Vitti and a psychiatrist Ben Sobel. Paul the mob boss wants to seek a doctor, a Psychiatrist once he is told he is suffering from panic attacks and not a heart attack. Jelly, Paul’s bodyguard refers him to Ben who has a private practice. Ben is portrayed as treating patients with psychoanalysis, which is better suited for clinical psychologist, rather than a psychiatrist. Moreover, psychotherapy, best fitted for anxiety disorders is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) which Ben offers to him. However, Ben is manipulated into treating him. As Ben and his fiancée are about to get married, Paul won’t take “NO” for an answer and harasses the couple the whole time while …show more content…
While talking he begins to hold his chest, anxiously, he makes an excuse to step outside. He is distressed, breathes awkwardly, and wants to go someplace more comfortable. Soon, after this ordeal, they visit the emergency room where the doctor tells him he was not experiencing a heart attack that the episode was an anxiety attack or a panic attack. Paul gets angry and shouts to the doctor “Do I look like a guy who panics?” Anger is a common reaction to this kind of diagnosis. To him the diagnosis seems to imply that he is somehow a coward. Even though it was clear to everyone that Paul had a panic attack, his exact diagnosis is never made clear during the movie. However, I am very confident that the order displayed was Panic Disorder. As learned in class panic or anxiety attacks are physical responses to a psychological disorder distinguished by its brief and unpredictable emergence that arouses a number of visible and unpleasant sensations such as: sweating, shortness of breath, choking, and chest pain being among the common symptoms. Like any other anxiety disorders such as phobias or post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks can be triggered by an individual’s encountering of something that reminds them of situations in the past that caused them massive distress. Throughout the movie Paul portrays a series of attacks/problems that he faces and instantly seeks Ben’s help when they happen. …show more content…
For example, after the murder of his best friend, Paul begins to have these sharp, sudden panic attacks. It is also discovered that the main source of his distress is his family’s murder when he was a child, especially of his father, whose death he blames himself for. Paul convinces himself throughout the movie that he has been cured while leaving the underlying cause unexamined and unresolved. Ben realizes the underlying problem when he was invited to lunch at Paul’s favorite restaurant, but told that it’s the restaurant where his father got murdered at, right before his eyes, when Paul was a child. Ben instantly believes he could help Paul after all. The death of his family and father, for Paul it was misplaced guilt on
That had happened because of a traumatizing experience when he was in kindergarten. His brother, Erik, and Erik's friend, Vincent, had sprayed Paul's eyes with white paint. (Pg. 264) Before Paul had remembered that incident, Paul had always thought he was foolish. On page 35 it explains why he thought he was irrelevant. It says "I was the boy who had not listened and who was now paying the price." That shows that Paul had always thought low of himself because his parents never told him the truth. This decision made Paul feel weak and miserable because he had always thought it was his fault. On page 265 Paul gets his parents to admit what had actually happened to make him blind. They said they didn't tell him the truth because they didn't want him to hate his brother. What Paul mentions was quite sad. He said,"So you figured it would be better if I just hated myself". (265) In that scene, his mom and dad both broke down crying. All along, Paul had felt guilt in himself for something he hadn't done.
Paul who creates himself this other persona he has to be with Paul and Ousia Kittredge, based on Trent’s information allows him into their household with ease. In order to get into their homes and obtain help from Ouisa and Flan, Paul decides to stab himself so they would take him in and treat his wound. He then lies to them and tells them he is friends with their children and all the good things their children said about them to make them feel more delighted with his presence. Geoffrey who was there with the Kittredges’ talking about busines...
In this book, Dr. Ernest Lash discovers he has a love for psychoanalysis after several years working as a psychopharmacologist. Justin, who has been a patient of Ernest for several years, tells him he left his wife, Carol, for another woman. While Ernest sees this as a good thing since the marriage between Justin and Carol as unhealthy, he is still slightly upset that Justin gives him no credit for his help in the situation. Justin then decided he no longer needs Ernest’s help.
...e body suddenly convulses, then becomes limp, and collapses” (page 216). He feels the responsibility to be the one to tell this man’s wife how he died and why he died. Paul realizes that it was completely wrong and that the government had played with his mind making him think that the idea of killing at war was good. He also sees that if the situation was different, that all of them could be friends instead of enemies. The soldiers realize that they are all alike and that they have nothing to gain from their killing.
Paul has gone through a lot and he has suffered a lot, so he is glad that now he won’t have to endure any more pain. On page 293 Paul says that he is the only one left from his class. This means he has seen all of his friends die which must’ve left him traumatized so he’s glad that he won’t have to go through the pain again. Paul is finally at peace and that’s what he wanted all along. On page 296 the narrator is no longer Paul because he has died. The new narrator describes Paul’s death as a fall and nothing more. The new narrator’s diction is very casual to Paul’s death because death is so common.
As a child Paul and Norman were very much the same, for they both seeked love from their father but, growing up Paul strayed from his fathers teaching. We see that in fly fishing; Paul leaves the four tempo technique, and creates a technique called shadow casting. Paul seeks attention, for example when he danced with the Native American girl all eyes were on them due to the provocative dancing or Native American. Paul loves being in the center of attention whenever; he came home he would often tell stories with both parents giving him full attention. Paul’s character was very boisterous and quick-tempered. Paul tended to start fights and cause a scene. Paul is not reserved, and he will quickly tell you how he feels. Paul is a very independent person, and he does not like to receive help; for example after the gambling scene Paul tries to dissuade Norman away from helping him. Paul is not one to follow other people’s example, but rather sets examples like fly fishing. Paul has an alcohol and gambling problem, and he knows, but he refuses help due to his pride. Paul was equally loved as a child, but he craved for attention as an adult because he did not know what to do with the love that was given to him. In the movie Paul started to really act out when Norman came home, and perhaps this was because he felt as if he was in Norman’s shadow. Norman was called the “professor” in the family because he went to college, but Paul never left Montana, and he could never achieve what Norman achieved perhaps that is why he acted so immaturely to receive
Body was throbbing with invisible pain, shivers washing over his back. He pondered his actions, to the point of which his head throbbed. Questioned if he would have broken his routine to avoid this event. This was the day that Paul Baker was going to die. He knew this with such certainty, such clarity, in that he held the gun to his own temple. He began to rock.
Paul believes that everyone around him is beneath him. He is convinced that he is superior to everyone else in his school and in his neighborhood. He is even condescending to his teachers, and shows an appalling amount of contempt for them, of which they are very aware.
Paul’s Case can be hard to understand. Initially, Paul can seem cold and his suicide can seem senseless if you do not look deeper into his actions and realize the intense interpersonal struggle that he is facing. His detached and then obsessive actions point to him feeling a great divide in his life. He is stuck between doing what society wants him to do and staying in his fantasy
Around the end of the story, Paul decides to run off to New York for a week to finally live his dreams. However, by making his dreams a reality he exposes himself to something he wasn't prepared for, the truth. At first, everything is all Paul ever wanted it be. He is able to finally live life as he sees fit. He spends his money without care, and is able to live up to all his lies. (Although this reaches its climax when Paul meets a young man in the street), "The young man offered to show Paul the night side of the town, and the two boys went out together after dinner, not returning to the hotel until seven o'clock the next morning" (Cather 11). After this, Paul's fake reality falls apart quickly. Faced with the reality that he will have to return home, Paul decides to take his own life. Instead of ending it quickly with a gun, he decides to go a different route, "When the right moment came, he jumped. As he fell, the folly of his haste occurred to him with merciless clearness, the vastness of what he had left undone. There flashed through his brain, clearer than ever before, the blue of Adriatic water, the yellow of Algerian sands. He felt something strike his chest, and that his body was being thrown swiftly through the air, on and on, immeasurably far and fast, while his limbs were gently relaxed. Then, because the picture-making mechanism was crushed, the disturbing visions flashed into black,
1. What type of emotional disturbance does John Nash, the main character in the film,
On page 227 paragraph 13 it says, “I saw you face down Erik and those other guys, and I saw Arthur Bauer hit you with a blackjack.” This choice impacts Paul because Luis was someone that Paul cared about and to know that it was Erik and his friend Arthur that hit Luis that caused Luis’s death, will cause Paul a lot heartache and emotional pain. But this inevitably makes Paul stronger because now he has the drive to somehow get back Erik for all the horrible things that Erik has done. On page 245 Paul is very distraught because he finds out that Luis has died and knows the reason why. This bothers Paul an incredible amount that he even goes home early from school. This shows that Erik’s choice affected Paul because Paul will forever acknowledge himself as Erik’s little brother, the brother of the person that killed Luis Cruz and this is something that will take Paul a long time to get
Paul goes to visit Kemmerich at his hospital. Kemmerich now knows that his leg has been amputated, but Paul tries to comfort him and convince him that he will be returning home soon. Paul wishes that the world would acknowledge Kemmerich’s suffering but he knows that the world will not. When Kemmerich suddenly begins to gurgle violently, Paul rushes to find a doctor. However the doctor he finds is in different to Kemmerich’s suffering and by the time they get to Kemmerich’s bed, he is dead. Paul collects Kemmerich’s things including his boots and leaves.
Paul is rescued from the car wreck by a woman named Annie Wilkes, an experienced nurse who lives nearby. As Paul waves in and out of consciousness, he hears a voice telling him that she's his "number one fan". Annie takes him not to a hospital, but to her home, putting him in a spare bedroom. As Paul regains consciousness, he lies there completely helpless, being unable to move anything from his waist down. She feeds and bathes him and splints his broken legs, giving him
The film Pauls Case is by Lemont Johnson but is written by Willa Cather. Its about Paul, a sensitive high school student, felt very frustrated with his home life and his family's expectations that he would grow up to work in a factory or the steel mills as his father and most of his neighbors did. He was not close to anyone in his family and had no neighborhood or school friends. Instead, he spent his evenings ushering at the symphony hall or backstage at a local theater. Paul dreamed of living the life of the performers he saw. He was without discipline and without direction. He had problems at school and was surly when called before a school committee. Eventually he was pulled out of school and sent to work by his father. He devised a scheme to steal money from his employer and then ran away to New York City where he stayed at the Waldorf Astoria, living for a few days the life of his dreams. When he realized that he would have to return home and accept his punishment he killed himself. Paul felt like his father, his uncaring teachers and classmates weren’t worthy of his company.