Marilyn Monroe Research Paper

I have chosen to do my case study paper on Norma Jeane Mortensen Baker, better known as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles, California. She was born to Gladys Mortenson Baker, a single mother and never did learn the true identity of her father. Gladys suffered from psychiatric issues her entire adult life and these affected her abilities to ever really be a stable mother to Marilyn. (Marilyn Monroe Biography) Gladys put Marilyn into foster care for several years, eventually taking her home with her. Gladys ended up having a mental breakdown, witnessed by the very young Marilyn, that put Gladys into a state hospital for some time. (Marilyn Monroe Biography) This made Marilyn a ward of the state and Gladys’s friend Grace Goddard, became her guardian, until she married in 1935 and nine year old Marilyn was once again put into foster care. Marilyn suffered
Joe DiMaggio claimed the body and arranged the private funeral. She was interred, in a crypt at Westwood memorial Cemetery and DiMaggio had a dozen red roses delivered three times a week for over twenty years. (Marilyn Monroe Biography) It is very clear to see that Marilyn had a very difficult childhood that affected her greatly. She seemed to always be looking for love, a sense of belonging and security.
From the psychodynamic approach with Marilyn’s childhood it is very easy to see that her childhood had a major effect on her, her entire life. By not bonding with her mother and having a very unstable home situation, by being moved from one foster home to the next and even in an orphanage, the basic need of bonding with a care giver, security and love were not there in her crucial early years of development. Then you add in the verbal and sexual abuse she suffered in these places and you can see how some of her behavior, choices and mental state became so