Question

Choose a historical or fictional character from a book or movie with a psychological problem. Write 1,000 words describing the problem and explaining it from two of the theoretical models (biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, and socio-cultural).

Answer 1

A fictional character I would like to mention from a movie which I had watched back in 2018. Kevin Wendell Crumb who is the protagonist in the movie has some psychological problems since his childhood. When he grows up, those problems magnify and take a big turn in his life. This movie was shot in Philadelphia by M. Night Shyamalan. The movie focuses on the protagonist Kevin and it is named Split because Kevin faces Split Personality Disorder also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder and has 23 alter egos. Whenever Kevin learns about any person who lost job/money or any loved one, he tends to have a heartbreak. Eventually, he starts acting in the same way (like the person who had suffered a loss). His true age is 25, but when he acts like Hedwig, he becomes a 9-year-old school kid. Sometimes he startes acting like Patricia, the British woman who is an acquaintance to Kevin.

The summary of this story is that Kevin, a guy who may have had a rocky past due to which he has turned into a human beast. Having 23 alter egos, each reflecting within each hour of the day. This whole Kevin situation shoots our minds towards The Psychodynamic Theory given by Sigmund Freud and The Behavioural Theory by psychologist Watson.

# The Psychodynamic Theory explains the origins of human behaviour. This theory rolls in three basic aspects :

1) The behaviour and the feelings of a person might be affected by the unconscious motives.

2) What human behaves as in adult can be rooted to their childhood experience. Those experiences modify a human as and when they face a situation.

3) The personality is made up of id,ego, superego.

# The Behavioural Theory explains the learning of a person over the time. How a person develops their behaviour via their conditioning. Conditioning comes from the environment we live in. Some psychologists believe that the human responses to the environmental stimuli shape the actions and outcomes of a person.

If we look the same thing via the perspective of a movie. It showed that definitely Kevin's conditioning wasn't good due to which he develops the 23 alter egos. The environment might not have appreciated this fact and would have let him alone. That's why he needs people near him to understand.