Since the understanding of psychiatric disorders have becomes more common in population, art pieces like movies and novels began use people with some extent psychiatric disorders as their main characters. In Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise’s movie Rain man, Dustin portrayed a man called Raymond, and be diagnosed as autism. The movie present his experience with his brother which portrayed by Tom. According to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed,; DSM-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013), Raymond is diagnosed as autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This paper will describe the symptoms on DSM-5 accompany Raymond’s behaviors in the movie. Moreover, biological, psychological, and social factors could influence ASD’s development in variance ways. The suggested treatment will also be discussed. First time Raymond appeared in the movie, he recognized the car, and he just directly sited in the car. “I’m sorry, this is not your car.” Susanna said, “Yeah, my dad lets me drive slow on the driveway.” Raymond didn’t explain the reason he directly sited in the car, and didn’t reply to Susanna. He is not able to make a fluent conversation with people. He cannot get the main point of other people’s talking, therefore, he cannot reply appropriately. Moreover, Raymond had a very strict schedule for each day. He mentioned that “I always drive the car on Saturday, never drive on a Monday”. Also, he never leaves the hospital for more than 2 hours. He has a rigid
For my case study my group and I chose the movie “Fatal Attraction”, and we chose Alex Forrest for our case study. For my part I chose to do the diagnosis aspect on Alex Forrest. Throughout this paper I will be diagnosing Alex Forrest. The following key clinical data will be discussed: client demographics, presenting problem, preliminary diagnostic information, symptoms, client characteristics and history, diagnostic impressions, potential disorders, and the DSM diagnosis.
Autism is profound impairment of social interaction and communication and severely restricted interests and activities, usually apparent by the age of 3. A few of Raymond’s
In Lasse Hallström’s film, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, the struggles of living with a mental illness is displayed through Arnie Grape, the protagonist’s younger brother. Grape’s disability is never discussed in the movie, as the movie focuses on Gilbert Grape, the principal character, and his struggles with life and family responsibilities. With the use of various resources, such as a psychology textbook (Lilienfeld 2014), credible health associations’ websites, and The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DMS-5), one is capable of analyzing the nature of Arnie’s disorder and make a valid assumption that he is dealing with a mental illness: autism. Autism is a spectrum disorder characterized by “various degrees in difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors” ("Learning About Autism," n.d.). It becomes clear, through Arnie Grape’s social and cognitive impairment, that he has Autism, despite the fact that the film does not clearly state that he has a mental illness.
Chapter 1 focuses on autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDDs) and other Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). Described in 1943 by Dr. Leo Kanner, autism (also known as autistic disorder, childhood autism, or infantile disorder) is one of the PDDs along with Rett's disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD) referred to as Heller's syndrome, Asperger disorder, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS). Rett's is a rare genetic abnormality affecting brain development in girls. There are treatments available, but there is no known cure. Asperger disorder affects an individual's ability to socialize and communicate effectively. Individuals with Asperger disorder may be socially awkward and have a compulsive
The 1988 film, “Rain Man”, told a story of an autistic man with incredible savant abilities. He can instantly count hundreds of objects at once, has an astounding memory for baseball statistics, the telephone book, and the amazing ability to count cards in Las Vegas. The hit movie exposed millions of people to both autism, and the phenomena known as Savant syndrome. Savant syndrome is a rare condition in which the person demonstrates profound abilities that are not commonly possessed by most people. Raymond Babbit’s autism, extraordinary special abilities, and remarkable memory are what categorize him as the world’s most famous autistic savant.
DSM-5 is a new edition toward the diagnosis manual book that is use to help diagnosis patient with mental health disorder. This book help guides psychiatric healthcare providers to provide the best care for psychiatric patients. The big things about this new edition is that it provide a new section for diagnosis Autism. With this new edition, patient with ASD must show 2 domains to determine they are diagnosed with ASD; 1) persistent social communication and social interaction and 2) restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior. Also under the new DSM-5, clinicians should also rate the severity and what level of support they require (Autism Speaks).
As research into autism spectrum disorders has increased over recent years and this has resulted in changes to the way that American psychiatry diagnoses autism spectrum disorders. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is used by clinicians as a guide to diagnoses of mental health illnesses and since its first publication in 1930’s it has been updated every 20 years, and these updates reflect on new research and discoveries.
Autism spectrum disorder affects many Americans and until the last 20 years was widely unknown. This disorder is characterized by a deficit in social communication and interaction (Mitchell, 2012). Autism spectrum disorder is also characterized in DSM-V by difficulties following the rules of conversation and understanding things that are not explicitly stated. The purpose of this paper is to see how savant syndrome is related to autism spectrum disorder in cognitive functioning. Savant syndrome is a condition where people with developmental disabilities have one area where they excel (Treffert, 2013). A famous example comes from the movie Rain Man, where Dustin Hoffman plays a man with autism spectrum disorder and savant
The concept of autism covers a range of disorders that affect communication skills, socialization and empathy of the person. The autistic have a personality turned in on itself in a pathological way. Mainly characterized by a deficiency in social reciprocity skills, verbal and nonverbal communication, symbolic play and a restricted range of interests and motivations. It is defined with multiple etymologies and varying degrees of severity.
Autism or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that is characterized by impaired communication (verbal and non-verbal), social, and comprehensive skills. Distinct features of individuals diagnosed with ASD are repetitive or restricted behaviors, for example daily or patterned routines: others may experience symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome, which delays cognitive/speech development: or other conditions similarly related to Down’s syndrome. ASD is often utilized as an umbrella term to encompass a wide range of genetic conditions and mental disorders; as such no two individuals diagnosed with ASD are alike. Because of this, researchers, therapists, and medical practitioners are still puzzled by the mysteries of ASD; however, many infants and toddlers are now beginning to show signs of ASD and many more are being diagnosed on the autism spectrum. With this increase, many people are beginning to understand and educate themselves on the effects of ASD and also cope with the lifestyles of autistic peoples. However, even with the increase of autism awareness and advocacy, individuals with ASD are discriminated against because of many stereotypes and societal myths that surround the disorder. One of the main sources that distribute these false stereotypes and myths is the media. In truth, many popular movies, like Rain Man and Forrest Gump, portray characters that are affected by ASD in stereotypical ways that overshadow the true complications of ASD and the
In the article, “Treating Clients with Asperger’s Syndrome and Autism”, Woods et al. discusses a recent discovery for individuals with Asperger’s syndrome called, “socio-dramatic affective-relational intervention’ (SDARI), a six-week program that utilizes a performance-based social skills curriculum” (Woods et al. 3). The SDARI program involves dramatic training activities to correct the affected individual’s way of understanding communication (Woods et al. 3). Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is a treatment which allows the individual to recognize emotions and reduces mood disorders (Attwood 183). Furthermore, Psychoanalytic therapy is a therapeutic modality that endeavours to help affected individuals to understand their mind and develop social communication (Cohler and Weiner 218-219). Therefore, the manifestation of treatments for individuals with Asperger’s syndrome reinforce/s appropriate communication to interact socially which affects a paramount aspect of
This paper will show how in the movie Rain Man, an adult man acts with high functioning autism. How great certain skills are that make him appear as if he has supermen abilities, while also showing the need for adult supervision for other events that unfold in the movie. While sourcing several references what autism is, its characteristics and how to treat it at an early age to get the best functional outcome as an adult. Along with some of dangers that’s face people with autism from the world around them and my own personal reflections on interacting with people with autism.
Raymond’s was not. Throughout town, Mr. Raymond is known as the town drunk. However, he is falsifying this claim. He uses the label town drunk to cover the fact he is married to a black woman. He walks around town pretending to be drunk, a brown bag with a bottle of Coke a Cola in it. Since he is known as a drunk, it allows people to accept that he is married to a black women. The people think that he did it cause he was drunk and not thinking properly, but he was thinking clearly. Mr. Raymond wanted to marry her. He just uses being drunk as an excuse. So, he walks around town pretending to be drunk, but why. Mr. Raymond does this so people don’t make fun of him or think bad of him. This is so he can stay with his wife and live the way he wants to live. Mr. Raymond even says it himself, “Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.”(Lee 200). This proves that this is what he wants, but why can’t people hear his song? It's because if they did they would never understand. So, Mr. Raymond hides his song. He hides it by pretending to be a drunk man. This is a time Mr. Ramond shows that he is hiding his song, “Some folks don’t-like the way I live. Now I could say hell with ‘em, I don’t care if they don’t like it. I do say I don’t care if they don’t like it, right enough-but I don’t say the hell with ,em, see?”(Lee 200) The last sentence
Raymond was diagnosed in the movie the Rain Man with having autism. The autism symptoms disorder had several of Raymond’s characteristics, such impairment in social interaction, and multiple nonverbal behaviors. In this moment the Medical Model applies in Raymond case, when Raymond as a patient and needed a specialist for his psychological, behavioral, or cognitive disabilities. (Cole). Raymond could not look at people eyes, and most of the times slouched down spoken to keeping on a conversation. He refuse any kind the touch or even any fast anticipation in his directions. Raymond did not like when Charlie tried to hug him, the action was accept even when Charlie tried to explain. Raymond proves to have a personality of his own, that most of the time irritates Charlie. In this time the Client Centered Model when the client with your disability and barriers try to have participation on the life (Cole). During the conversation Charlie was asked Raymond a question, and he often answered with a negative answer. Raymond had hard time to carrying a conversation, sometimes used short answer was his away to put people away from his world. Would never start up a conversation with others or acted like he wanted to be around others, most of the times he was in self word without pay attention in others conversation around. When Raymond meet new people he tensed up and did not want to look, or act like anyone was there or speaking with him. Similarly situation made Raymond nervous, like
Autism is a pervasive, lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder or disability that is behaviourally described. It is often presented early on in the individuals life and affects how they communicates with and relate to other people. The term Autism was first coined by doctor and Austrian American psychiatrist Leo Kanner in the 1940’s (Kanner, 1943). The naming of this disorder has changed many times over the years from Childhood Schizophrenia to Psychosis to Pervasive Developmental Disorder, which has led it to land on the current language; ‘Autism Spectrum Disorder’. It is important to understand that we are labelling the individuals with Autism as such after looking at symptoms and trying to define them because it becomes necessary for diagnosis as well as to provide services. Autism was first included in the DSM-III 30 years ago which was when we first recognised Autism as a distinctive category. Since then it has undergone a series of changes, one of which is the revised DSM-III in 1987 that first provided the inclusion of pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified. These continuous changes are normal and needed within the diagnostic criteria, and as research continues, it is likely that changes will occur in the future. The revised DSM-5 Criteria for Autism spectrum disorder defines and classifies the disorder not solely on the presence of impairments or deficits, but also by the severity to which these impairments are present (American Psychiatric