Final Project Movie Selection

Final Project Directions

Abnormal Psychology in the Movies

For your final project you will be writing a paper in APA format. (See details below.) Your paper should be approximately 4-5 pages or 1200-1500 words. Your paper will focus on the main character of one of the movies listed below. Each character suffers from a particular mental illness (or illnesses) covered in this course.

What About Bob?

Silver Linings Playbook

Rain Man

Melancholia

The Good Son

Fight Club

Boys Don’t Cry

Leaving Las Vegas

When a Man Loves a Woman

A Beautiful Mind

Girl, Interrupted

Shutter Island

The Hours

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Requiem for a Dream

28 Days

It is your responsibility to find a way to watch one of those movies.

Please post your movie choice in the “Final Project Movie Selection” discussion forum before the end of week 1.

After watching your selected movie, it’s time to focus on the writing portion of this assignment. The goal of your paper is to analyze the main character and his or her abnormal psychology.

Please utilize the following headers within your paper:

Introduction: Introduce the character you are writing on and summarize the plot


Symptoms & Diagnosis: What specific symptoms did the character experience in the movie? What diagnosis would you give them?

Nature or Nurture: Was the character’s mental illness a result of biological or environmental influences? Explain.