Reactive Attachment Disorder In Lars And The Real Girl

In the movie Lars and the Real girl, Lars is a man looking for a woman to fill the role of a mother he never had. His mother died while giving birth to him and ever since he has not been the same. He bought a doll named Bianca to fill that nurturing role of a mother and his family and friends began to worry about him. Lars detachment from his family and friends all those years led to him having schizoid personality disorder and reactive attachment disorder. Reactive attachment disorder is when an infant has a lack of attachment to a caregiver at a young age, for Lars it was his parents. Because of this he would spend a lot of time alone and he never really wanted to talk to anyone or socialize which is his Schizoid Personality Disorder. Lars bought a doll named Bianca to fill in that nurturing role he was always missing with his parents being gone. When he got Bianca he would give her his mother's old blanket, put her in his mother's old room, and took her to the lake he and his brother use to play at when they were kids. He treated her as if she were real and he took her everywhere with him. They did not have a relationship as girlfriend and boyfriend because Lars hated being touched he said it felt like a burn. Bianca was more of a companion to him. She helped him become more social. In one
Getting Bianca was his way of coping and it was not until he got better that he would let her go. Bianca got Lars to go out more and be more social and because of that he got better and began to reduce some characteristics of his Schizoid disorder. Toward the end of the movie when he began to get better he was the one to say she was sick and dying , he was letting her go. Letting Bianca go was his finally stage in knowing that he was better, because when he let her go he began to form a relationship with Margo, a real