Preview

K pax

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
456 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
K pax
Mental Disorders are huge impacts in people’s lives. In this movie I have learned that Prot, the main character who is supposedly from a different planet called “K-Pax”. When Prot comes to Earth, you first see him in Grand Central Station in New York City when Prot mysteriously just appears. When the police ask’s him where he is from and he explains that he is from the planet K-PAX, he is arrested and sent off to Bellevue, a psychiatric hospital. When he gets to the psychiatric hospital, he meets Doctor Powell. Doctor Powell asks Prot many questions including, do they have families and do they have wives or husbands. Prot answers that they do not have any families on K-Pax, nor do they have wives or husbands, and if the girlfriends gets pregnant, the kids will just be wandering around almost as if they are orphans. At the first meeting with Prot and Doctor Powell, Prot eats an apple, which he calls the apple a “Red Delicious”. When he eats the apple he chews very loud, later on in the movie he eats a banana, with the peel on and he eats it whole. Prot says that he travels faster than the speed of light. Prot tells the doctor that he is Three-Hundred and Thirty-seven years old in human years. Prot wears dark sunglasses because he says that he is very sensitive to the light. Later on in the movie prot tells Howie, which is another patient at the psychiatric hospital, that if he can succeed three tasks that Prot will cure Howie. The first task is to find the Blue bird of happiness, when they saw a blue bird everyone in the hospital was very excited to see. After Howie saw the Blue bird, prot gave him another task which was to ***** and the last wish was to stay at the hospital. Prot says he can only bring one person back to K-PAX. Prot says he can only stay until July.27 at 5:51 A.M eastern time. Throughout the movie, Doctor Powell comes attached to Prot. At a fourth of july party at doctor powells, when prot arrives to the party he goes straight to the dog

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    However, with the assistance of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy encouraged Antwone to feel comfortable to communicate his feelings about his traumatic past. “Through the retelling of the traumatic event to a calm, understanding, kindhearted, and nonjudgmental therapist, the survivor feels better about him or herself, develops effective ways of thinking and coping, and learns to deal with strong emotions” (Hamblen 2). This explains the psychiatrist accurately in the movie. Antwone’s psychiatrist ensured him that he was concerned about his well-being. Brief psychodynamic psychotherapy was everything that Antwone truly needed.Exposure therapy was another therapy that was very beneficial for his disorder. This therapy consisted of through imaginative concentration in terms of his traumatic episiodes. This portion of therapy enforced Antwone to stimulate his memory and previous thoughts. He was always afraid to relive his heartache. Moreover, his psychiatrist made it comfortable for him to revisit his past in an invulnerable…

    • 1696 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The multidisciplinary team is concerned about the many social complexities that are present in Megara’s life that have a direct impact on Megara’s mental health and wellbeing. Some of these complexities include: her living arrangements, her support networks (or lack thereof), and her safety. Furthermore, there is also concern about her cognitive functioning since there was evidence that there may be an impairment during the ward admission assessment, as well as a concern about the risks and the probability of the occurrence of Megara’s direct and indirect self-destructive behaviours happening again; as this is prevalent in the elderly who have a psychiatric disorder (Conwell, Pearson, & DeRenzo, 1996).…

    • 266 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The book, Crazy, was an interesting, and informative non-fiction book, about the struggles that mental health patients and their family members encounter. Pete Earley starts off the story by talking about his son Mike, who started to act strangely in his senior year of high school. It turned out that Mike would later be diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and was prescribed medications. Mike thought he was fine, therefore would frequently stop taking his medications. When Mike was in the hospital, he refused treatment, and because he was not a danger to himself, a danger to others, or gravely disabled; the doctors could not force him into treatment. Because, Mike stops taking his medications, his symptoms got worse. Pete discussed a time that…

    • 1093 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cosi

    • 1031 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Pg5- “They are normal people who have done extraordinary things, thought extraordinary thoughts” (Mental health system)…

    • 1031 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    As a class, we watched the movie, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, which is regarded as a classic film that left a lasting impact on how viewers view treatments of various mental illnesses. The procedures such as lobotomies, and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) were harsh and give to patients without any thought to the lasting effects on their minds. The treatments seemed a way to keep the patients under control. After seeing the movie, the audiences viewed the treatments for mental illness as dangerous, inhumane and used with abandonment. The show also brought to light how patients were treated in a large mental institutions, making them question how awful mental healthcare was and how much it needed to improve. The film depicts the several psychology phenomena.…

    • 767 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In Oliver Sacks’ The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat, Dr. P, a teacher at a local school of music started acting in weird ways, not recognizing students by their faces, but once he would hear them speak he would know exactly who they were, by recognizing their voice. After a few doctor visits and a lot of speculation, it was determined that Dr. P had visual agnosia, a mental health problem he had been dealing with for a while but never really noticed. His wife, in the other hand, had already learned to live with his husband’s form of being, correcting him when he would mistake his foot for a shoe, or even his own wife for a hat. This shows how sometimes one isn’t aware of his own mental problems. However, in a different text written by a man named Walter Kirn, entitled A Pharmacological Education, Kirn talks about how he, in the other hand, realized how he completely changed the way he was when he took Adderall, a prescription drug that his doctor gave to him to deal with his ADHD. He realized that he was undergoing an education where he was depending on this drug to do well and become successful. He was able to do things that he had never been able to do, such as multitasking without failing on either task, or concentrating on only one thing without getting distracted or loosing interest in what he was doing. These are just two more examples of how mental health problems are better off being personal issues than a social matter because of the way they were dealt with and controlled by either themselves or family…

    • 1115 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Girl Interrupted (1999) is a film depicting a youthful female in the 1960s battling with the instability of her own emotional sickness (Mangold, (n.d.)). With the influence of her parents, Susanna Kayson concedes herself into a psychiatric and is later determined to have Borderline Personality Disorder. Her fight demonstrates that those agonies from a psychiatric disorder may not generally meet the cliché picture depicted by the overall population. Other characters in this film did a fabulous depiction of symptoms of sicknesses, for example, an extreme dietary issue, grandiose fantasies, sociopathic propensities, and bipolar disorder. However, the actual diagnoses are unclear. The film demonstrated the individual disappointment and perplexity required in understanding one's disorder in a period when society needed much knowledge into a psychiatric disorder. This paper goes for examining the character's diagnosis regarding the DSM-IV, discussing about the obvious etiology of the…

    • 1465 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    In Makeover, the first chapter of Listening to Prozac, an extensive example of a patient’s response to Prozac is recounted. Tess, the patient, was the product of growing up as a “parent child”. Having no father, an alcoholic mother and nine younger siblings, she developed independence and self-sufficiency early on. As an adult, her professional life flourished but her personal life suffered. Constantly seeking out relationships with abusive men which invariably had demoralizing conclusions, her self esteem began to diminish, she felt unattractive and the needs of her family weighed heavily on her, leaving her stressed and tired. As a result of confiding this in Kramer, her psychiatrist, she was prescribed Prozac, an antidepressant. Tess’s reaction to the drug is best described as a psychological makeover. Prozac globally altered the aspects of her personality. (Kramer 13). Tess’s timidity developed into social prowess, the usual…

    • 1198 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Mental illness is a prominent problem in today’s troublesome world. Each day many people are diagnosed with a mental illness, most commonly depression. The human mind becomes tarnished when a person has a mental illness, and often the illness takes over a person’s life completely. Mental illness is a serious problem and often goes untreated or misdiagnosed. The darkness within a person’s mind is one of the toughest aspects of life for people to conquer and many lose themselves in the fight. To further understand mental illness, it would be easiest to peer into the life of someone with one of these illnesses. For example, taking a closer look at the lives of actor Heath Ledger, and fictional character Victor Frankenstein, from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein can help humans gain insight into the mind of a troubled soul.…

    • 1450 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The characters within the mental asylum are shown to grasp what truly matters, whereas society seems to focus on the Vietnam War. Even though they are mental patients and an asylum is a ‘mad house’ the inmates are ‘normal people who have done extraordinary things’.…

    • 586 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Girl Interrupted

    • 1248 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In this stimulating true story, Kaysen speaks of her experience as an eighteen-year-old patient in a psychiatric hospital in the late 1960's. "People ask, how did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, it's easy" (pg. 5). The doctor who referred her diagnosed her with a borderline personality disorder within twenty minutes of interviewing her. The doctor also perceived her as extremely depressed with a pattern-less life. Recent activities included having a relationship with her English teacher, attempted suicide, running away from her parent's home and having a troublesome boyfriend. Kaysen wrote, "I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that today I had to swallow fifty aspirin. It was my task: my job for the day" (pg. 17). The doctor explained she just needed a "rest" for a few weeks, but Kaysen ended up spending nearly two years at McLean Hospital. During that time, she developed many friendships with quite a few of the other teenage girls. Among the patients admitted to her ward, Kaysen describes Polly, a kind patient with disfiguring, self-inflicted burns to her face and body. Lisa, another patient, entertains Kaysen with her flee attempts and embellished hatred for hospital authorities. Kaysen's roommate, Georgina, struggles to keep a relationship with Wade, a vicious and unstable boyfriend from another ward, who tells the girls apparently strange stories about his father with the CIA. The obsessions of roasted chicken and laxatives make a newly arrived patient named Daisy the object of attention. Daisy eventually leaves the hospital and commits suicide on her birthday. In addition, Torrey, who is an ex-drug addict, was placed in McLean by her parents because of her promiscuity. Her parents eventually remove her against her own will and bring her back to Mexico where she believes she may return to her junkie…

    • 1248 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    The television show revolved around the lives of psychiatrists, their friends, and the patients they cared for. Even though the show depicted fictional (yet realistic) situations, the scenarios involving the psychiatric patients opened my eyes to the everyday realities those living with mental illness may actual endure. This, accompanied by inspiration from my familial struggles and my experiences with Georgia Artists with DisAbilities, has motivated me to pursue a career as a psychiatrist in hopes of increasing knowledge on mental illness and helping to improve the lives of mentally ill people across the…

    • 786 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    In the film adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Pat McMurphy (played by Jack Nicholson) is convicted of statutory rape and sentenced to a short prison sentence. No stranger to prison, however, McMurphy or “Mac” decides to fake a mental-illness and be committed to a mental hospital in order to avoid the harsh conditions of prison. While in the mental hospital, Nicholson’s character begins to befriend his fellow mentally ill patients and, in doing so, inspires them to achieve greater things in their lives. However, Mac’s time in the mental institute is not without its’ challenges, such as the stern faced Nurse Ratched who opposes how Mac brings inspiration to the other patients, which she sees as rebellion to her authority (Forman, 1975). During the movie, Mac and other patients exhibit key psychological principles that explain the causes of their behavior. These principles seen throughout the movie include psychotic disorders, examples of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and theories of morality.…

    • 1602 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    In 1975 a director by the name of Milos Forman released his film called “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, which in my opinion was an interesting and great film. While conducting some research to see what was going on during the release of this film I discovered that prior to the film we have not too long ago finish fighting in the Vietnam War. After viewing the film multiple times, I started to pick up on the fact that it was more gear toward being in control verses actual mental illness of the patience. There were even times were one could see how it only took one person to exert power that went against the strict rules that were implemented in the mental hospital. In this paper I will be analyzing the film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”…

    • 1029 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    K- PAX

    • 387 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Mental disorders are huge impacts in people lives. In the movie K – Pax, Robert who was also known as prot throughout the movie had a mental disorder due to traumatic events in his life. The events caused prot to have multiple different personalities and caused him to react to certain situations differently. One disorder prot can be diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, (DID). DID is an effect of severe trauma during early childhood, usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. This mental disorder causes suicidal tendencies, anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, and eating disorders…

    • 387 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays