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  • Essay / Black Swan - 1089

    The main character of the film Black Swan, twenty-eight-year-old Nina Sayers, shows signs of numerous disorders through her abnormal behavior. Nina's life is consumed by her profession: professional ballerina/dancer. Nina resides with her mother and rarely socializes with others. She has difficulty concentrating, is agitated, irritable, suffers from muscle tension and sleep problems due to nightmares. Nina also feels very uncomfortable in social and intimate situations. She seems incapable of interacting with those around her. Nina's interaction with her fellow dancers seems tense and superficial. Nina exhibits behavior that indicates that she views all other dancers as competitors rather than potential comrades or friends. Being very introverted and unable to share any part of herself with those around her, even her mother, who seems to be the only person who has ever been vaguely close to Nina, leads her to seek companionship with certain parts of herself. herself instead of healthy relationships with others. . Nina exhibits signs of generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and paranoid personality disorder through these abnormal behaviors. Nina has also lost consciousness several times and shows signs of mutilation on her body without her knowledge: bruises, cuts and scratches. According to her mother, Nina used to self-harm when she was a child, but it recently started again. Nina sees images of herself, but a different, "evil" version of herself. This could be the awakening of another personality or sub-personality. Nina's stress level over the new performance at her ballet company may have played a role in this change. Dissociative identity disorder is said to be...... middle of document ...... accompanied by numerous individual psychotherapies. Free association must be applied in these therapy sessions; free association occurs when the therapist asks the patient to describe any thought, feeling, or image that comes to mind (Comer, 2011). Nina hopes to relive repressed feelings from her childhood, this is called catharsis, and it is extremely important for the progression of treatment. Catharsis is essential for Nina to resolve her internal conflicts and overcome her problems. Hypnotherapy should be applied during regular therapy sessions to combat Nina's dissociative identity disorder. His subpersonality must be integrated and merged into one personality, before other subpersonalities appear. If these therapies and medications are continued consistently and Nina cooperates with the treatment, the likelihood of a successful recovery is high..