Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital

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It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he has been brought there on purpose as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors and board members whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister to torture. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable …show more content…

The main character suffers from many different mental disorders including tragic psychosis, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Delusional Disorder, hyper arousal and Posttraumatic stress disorder. These mental disorders can be seen throughout the movie, posttraumatic stress disorder is shown when the main character remembers how they lined up the Nazis in the concentration camp and gunned them down as a cold blooded firing squad. Hyper arousal and delusional disorder can be seen when people call him by his real name he freaks out and beats them up. The main one I’ll be talking about is dissociative identity disorder this can be seen throughout the movie when he refuses to believe he is a patient of the …show more content…

Others suggest that the history of dissociative identity disorder dates back to reports of demonic possession that are now thought to be incidences of dissociative identity disorder. Either way, it's clear that dissociative identity disorder has a long history and is not a new concept (while the terminology now used may be new). In 1791, the first detailed account of "exchanged personality" was written about a 20-year-old German woman who began to speak perfect French, behave like a French aristocrat and spoke German with a French accent. When she was the "French Woman" she remembered everything she did but as the "German Woman" she denied any knowledge of the "French Woman." (DID) was focused on for study between 1880 and 1920 and in 1944, 67% of all known cases had been reported during that time. Case reports of dissociative identity disorder then fell off dramatically perhaps due to the increased diagnosis of schizophrenia and due to the rise of Freud. In the 1970s, the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder rose dramatically after the publication of the extremely popular book, Sybil, in 1973 (Dissociative Identity Disorder: I’m Not Sybil). In the 1970s alone, it is thought that more cases of DID were reported than in all of history since 1816 and the famous case of Mary Reynolds. Between 1991 and 1997, over 500 cases of DID were admitted

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