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In “Sleepers” by Lorenzo Carcaterra is a book that was written and made into a Movie. In 1996 Barry Levinson, directed and started Jason, Patric as Lorenzo Carcaterra, Brand, Pitt (Michael Sullivan), Ron Eldard (John Reilly) and Billy Crudup (Tommy Marcano). The four boys were sexually and physically abused and suffer from violent behavior, drug and alcohol addiction, PTSD, and relationship disorders. This paper will examine the effect on Violence on the four boys will discuss the list, and proposes possible treatments options. Synopsis In the summer of 1967 four friends were sent to the Wilkinson Home for Boys, in up state New York. In Hell Kitchen an old man was hurt during their childhood pranks of stealing a hot dog wagon and rolling it down to the subway steps. The four boys sentenced to serve six months up to one year in Wilkerson center. Where the guard molested them sexually and physically regularly. During the sexually and physical abused the boys try to avoid there family from visiting them. As for Michael he had try to void his family. In the other hand, Tommy's mother couldn't get it together to visit him and for John's mother she came up once a month. However, Father Bobby didn’t stop visit the boy in several occasion. (Sleeper) Since Lorenzo was released, thirteen years had past. The boys were now adult seeking for revenge. The trauma lead the four dealt with the trauma slightly different. As for John and Tommy were know to be the founding members of the West Side Boys and one of the deadliest member in New York. In Hell kitchen the corruption had continue ruling the street of New York. The opportunities occur for John and Tommy to gain revenge against one of the guard, which molested them. One night at the bar John... ... middle of paper ... ...nitive Processing Therapy and Prolonged Exposure therapy are slightly different. In cognitive Therapy is when the individual will be able to understand to identify their thought and feeling. The second type is Prolonged exposure therapy is when the individual get to revisited fearful memories to become less fearful of the event that lead them to fear them. In this case Lorenzo, Cardenas falls in this category because his childhood was spent in the Wilkinson home for boy. Where Lorenzo was sexually abused by the guard and in home for boys. Lorenzo in the other hand he try to erase memorize of the traumatic event that occur to him. As result, he isn’t able to sleep with the light off. He often appears to suffer from the flashback of the horrific experiences. In the film of 1996 the “Sleeper” directed by Barry Levinson, explore several of traumatic event that can lead

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