Film Review Of Brian's Psychodynamic Approach

When introduced to Brian people instantly see how much pressure his mother puts on him to be a high achiever and to essentially perfect. He is an introverted, shy, and people pleasing person that for him it is not a healthy combination because he does not know where to draw the line or how to be himself. Brian is the one who makes himself the type of person that others go to for sympathy and is very lovable but is unable to like himself because of where he finds his self-image and self-confidence. He wants to be liked, accepted, and wants to feel like he fits in with the “cool kids”. As the movie progresses we see Brian talk about the different pressures to be perfect so that he can succeed because for him if he gets one bad grade in school

When he obtains a healthy development, he will learn to modify his perspective on his life experiences on things such as grades and see that one bad grade is not the end of his world. To begin the cycle needs to be identified before it can be broken, when the cycle is broken the healthy development can begin. With how intelligent Brian is, the best technique for him would be didactic discussion and possibly role playing. He is quite use to intellectual discussions as shown in the show when talking about the clubs that he belongs to and what they do when they have their meetings. Didactic discussion is essentially just a back and forth discussion between the therapist and himself, it should work for how discussion oriented he seems to be. Role playing would work well with him because it would help him to see how he is behaving and the possible maladaptive behaviors himself and work towards creating better habits and resolving his maladaptive behaviors that lead him to be depressed and struggling. According to person centered therapy the best thing for him would be to realign his ideal self and his real self. The goal of people centered therapy is to help the client become a fully functioning person in society. The therapist is not allowed to set goals for the client but instead the client sets goals and can be helped by the therapist. There is a two-step process to person centered therapy that begins with the movement away from things that the self is not so it would be speaking with Brian and allowing him to come to his own realization that there are things in his life that he needs to change to live a more fulfilled life. He would need to come to the realization that the world will not end if he gets one bad grade and that he cannot control everything in his life but he