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Frankie and Alice a film based off a true story, follows a young African American Frankie Murdoch, Halle Berry, in her struggle with Multiple Personality Disorder; now referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder is the reaction to trauma as way to help avoid bad memories. It is characterized by having two or more personalities present and each may have unique names, backgrounds, and characteristics. The film takes place in Los Angeles in 1973. Frankie experiences a traumatic event during her adolescence years with the death of her white lover, and then her mother murdering her newborn child after she realizes it was fathered by the white man. The movie begins at Frankie’s job as a Go-Go Dancer, where she is …show more content…
considered the best dancer and all the wealthy men want a turn with her. Frankie even tells one of her co-workers “I close my eyes, and let the music take me, like I ain’t even there.” She gets into an altercation with a bartender when she switches to an alter ego and cracks the man’s head open. She continues to have manic episodes all throughout the movie, at the laundromat and a wedding. After her mishap with the bartender she is admitted into Pearce Psychiatric Hospital where Dr. Oz starts to diagnose and treat her. This is where she learns of her two alter egos: Alice, a southern white racist woman, and Genius, a very intelligent African American seven-year-old. Her time at the hospital helps her recall the traumatic events with her white lover, Mr. Pete and unfortunate death of her child. After watching the tapes of her split personalities, Frankie recognizes her problem and takes control of it. In the end, with the help of Genius, Frankie becomes a high school teacher, and marries a psychiatrist. Frankie’s multiple personality disorder is accurately portrayed in the film and several symptoms occur through the progression of the film.
When presented Multiple Personality Disorder in the DSM-5’s book, Frankie meets the criteria without a doubt. The first and most prevalent sign is that Frankie has a disruption of identity with two or more distinct personalities. Early in the film, co-worker’s claim Frankie filled in the crossword puzzle, but she denied it and even looked at the puzzle and said “That ain’t my handwriting.” Genius was the one who filled out the puzzle. Another example of this disruption is when she goes home with the bartender and they begin to get sexual with one another, Frankie’s ego Alice comes to and starts ranting about how “black nigger touching her soft southern white women skin.” Frankie has gaps in her everyday events such as going to the laundromat and blacking out. She’s talking to her friend Bobby who goes to get her coffee, when he returns she begins to have a flashback of her adolescent years with Mr. Pete. She gets scared of Bobby and runs out. Frankie shows occupational impairment throughout the movie by smoking marijuana to make it through her shifts at the club, or by drinking alcohol to function in a social setting. She even buys her mother gifts that she knows she can’t afford. In the film, functional impairments are present, one example of this is after she gets fired from her job, she starts sleeping constantly and not interact with people, developing poor self-care. After two episodes of blackouts, Frankie decides she has a problem and starts to let Dr. Oz treat her. This is a strength she possesses by realizing something is wrong and trying to get help for
herself. While the film goes along with the typical, character introduction, then they fall on hard times, they meet someone who can help them, have setbacks but eventually reach their goal. The negative messages from my perspective, was that Frankie was portrayed as a junkie. It also portrays mental hospitals as deplorable and the people in there were made out to be functional. Another thing I noticed was that the doctors were trying to get rid of Frankie because they had no diagnosis for her within a certain time frame so they deemed her fit for society. This is the main problem I had with the movie. Psychiatrists today work with you until they have a specified treatment in place that will help you. Second, people think that multiple personality disorder means the people are crazy and that they make it up to get out of situations or helps you “escape your body.” This is not true at all, Dr. Oz tells Frankie “we all have different personalities, and different self’s, it’s about containing them” Finally, Frankie functions normally when her stress of the accident isn’t hindering her mind. Her brain is cognitively impaired slightly because she calls her mother to tell her she’s taking a break but she says she’s in Florida. So, she is aware of her condition and that she needs to get help so she can overcome the illness, she is willing to do whatever it takes to escape her alter egos. Although Frankie checks herself out of the hospital when she learns she does not have to be there, she comes back after Dr. Oz instructs her that it is the best thing for her. Dr. Oz is largely portrayed as the most caring and soft individual in the Pearce Hospital. He tries to keep ethical boundaries and legitimate treatment strategies available at the time to help Frankie. Dr. Oz does lots of research and is restricting his time to only Frankie to be able to focus on just her without any distractions. The film illustrates a very positive persona on mental health care professions. Dr. Oz keeps a very professional composure while treating Frankie and you can tell he is truly concerned for the wellbeing of her. One reason for this is that Alice is trying to do whatever it takes to take over Frankie and “not let her win.” He does not inform Frankie that she can leave the hospital but it is only because he has not fully diagnosed her illness and needed a little extra time. He goes as far as to search for her by going to her mother’s house and expressing how important it is for Frankie to return to treatments. Dr. Oz goes to full lengths to help Frankie overcome her illness. A study was conducted in the United Kingdom over how individuals diagnosed with DID construed their experiences of being labeled with a contested diagnosis. Of the seven participants two were not receiving treatment for DID, one was receiving non-specialist NHS treatment, one was receiving private specialist DID treatment and three were receiving specialist DID treatment funded by the NHS. Participants were between the ages of 22-48, of the same ethnicity and had been diagnosed with DID within the past 5 years. Two themes were present after examination diagnosis cross-examination and navigating care systems. Diagnosis Cross-Examination considered the rationalizing and questioning of the participant who was experiencing the DID. Several patients described fear of being called “mad” or other people being afraid of them. They feared being stereotyped. This process consisted of stigmatizing the participants, destigmatizing them, reconstructing them and diagnosing them. The article says “Medical naturalism argues that disease exists prima facie within the external world and that diagnosis is simply a matter of detecting and categorizing it, as was Kraepelin’s approach when creating his classification of mental disorders.” It says that participants improved knowing that there was “hope and some validation, not just symptoms but of past traumas.” They believed that with help from the right person they could overcome their DID diagnosis. This outstanding study is also shown in Frankie and Alice. Frankie believes with the right person she will be able to get help. That’s why when she readmits herself into the hospital she has one condition, Dr. Oz is the only one who can treat her. She has hope that he can help her overcome her difficult disorder and live a normal life, just as the people from this article. Frankie, a young African American woman, is without no question an individual with multiple personality disorder. After viewing the DSM-5 for DID, it is obvious that she meets all the criteria. While some things were exaggerated, the film did an excellent job at portraying an individual with multiple personality disorder. This movie held my attention the whole time being entertaining, emotional, and an outstanding performance by Halle Berry.
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