[youOme]

Doing an assignment in Psych on the movie Fight Club (starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt). Basically I need to diagnose the narrator (Norton) and list his symptoms.

Obviously he suffers from DID but what type...personality, fugue, amnesia, or depersonalization??? Can he suffer from more then one??

Hopefully somebody out there has seen the movie. It's an excellent movie..so if you haven't, you should check it out.

[spiritual_emergency]

The following may be insightful for you...

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From the beginning, the film examines consciousness itself. We hear a gun c0ck and watch the sound as an electrical impulse inside the psychoneurotic center of the protagonist's brain. "The electricity that's running through it is like photo-electrical stimuli . . . These are fear-based impulses. We're changing scale the whole time so we're starting at the size of a dendrite and we pull through the frontal lobe." Our narrator, Jack, is a product of American problems of meaning. America may promise freedom, especially to the white man, but Jack's life is anything but free. He lives in indentured servitude to his corporate copying office job and his IKEA catalogues. He is on a spiritual (1) train straight to nowhere. But when he sees a doctor for a diagnosis of his spiritual death, the doctor assures him, "No, you can't die from insomnia . . . You want to see pain?" mocks the doctor. "Swing by Meyer High on a Tuesday night and see the guys with testicular cancer. Now that's pain!"

The testicular cancer support group gives Jack the kind of emotional attention he needs. Here people "really listen" and he can cry and feel for the first time. The testicular cancer group inspires him to join support groups for lymphoma, tuberculosis, blood parasites, brain parasites, organic brain dementia, and ascending bowel cancer. He becomes a support group addict with a different group each day of the week-all for a condition he does not have. Accustomed to regarding people as packages, he meets a perfect "single-serving friend" who sits next to him on a business flight. Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) is everything the narrator wishes he could be. Tyler is a walking, talking, cultural commentator. He is cynical, strong, and forthright. This chance encounter with Tyler Durden leads our narrator to his drastic change of "life-style." When the narrator's IKEA-furnished house burns down, he moves in with Tyler Durden. Together, they start Fight Club, a new kind of support group for men that encourages them to sock and punch and tear at each other in order to feel saved. The fights are primal, brutal, and bloody. This is an honorable group with its own codes and ethics. But Fight Club aggression spins out of control into Project Mayhem. When the narrator finally confronts Tyler about the project, he comes to the realization that he is Tyler Durden. The narrator confronts the inner psychological split by placing a gun in his own mouth. He shoots himself to kill off his alter-ego, but it is too late. Project Mayhem ends where it began, at "ground zero," with bombs exploding and corporate skyscrapers crumbling.

Source: thefilmjournal - Fight Club


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See also: [*] Shadow Projection: The Fuel of War[*] Archetype of the Apocalypse

DID IS a particular kind of dissociative disorder. There aren't further specifiers on that (unless it is a severity specifier having to do with the number of alters - though I'm not sure that is DSM compared with particular clinicians theories).

ICD doesn't have a dx category for DID so he would get something different out of there... NOS something or other... It is kinda lumped with Gansers Syndrome...

Though...

It might be that he is better regarded as having MPD (no longer appears in the DSM). Interesting issues are brought up when it comes to dxing characters in fiction or in history...

Not terribly supportive of it myself...

[Typo]

Wow it is crazy I found this because the other day I was actually arguing with someone in my art class the other day. Definatly Dissociative personality disorder. I would have to say it was personality and amniesa. He didn't dissacocate from reality when his other personality took over he just couldn't rember anything. I love the movie one of my personal favorites. Everyone I meet thinks it's schizophrenia..I get in a debate with most of the people I watch it with.

[(JD)]

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dis...574/DSECTION=2

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Obviously he suffers from DID but what type...personality, fugue, amnesia, or depersonalization??? Can he suffer from more then one??

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He didn't dissacocate from reality when his other personality took over he just couldn't rember anything.

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I think you all need to reread what you type before you hit "continue" on some of these posts. Most of us don't mind answering questions, even ones that do your homework for you, but they really do need to display your base of knowledge on the matters, imo. Do you really not understand the basics on this dx, or did you mistype your posts? I don't know where to begin with an answer for you.

TC!

[BalishBun]

I tried to watch the movie but fell asleep. I didn't "get it" so that made me fall asleep.