"Patch Adams"

Film Review # 6473

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"Patch Adams"

An analysis of the movie "Patch Adams" and how it relates to the world of psychology.

735 words () | 0 sources | 2002 United States

Paper Summary:

A brief summary of the above movie and how the character assesses the psychology of people from his bed in the psychiatric ward. It provides a light-hearted view of people who think they are "crazy" but find that there are many people in much worse situations than them.

From the Paper:

"This movie was about a man named Hunter Adams. His nickname, of course, was Patch. At the beginning of the movie, he was extremely depressed and suicidal. He entered himself into a psychiatric ward hoping to find an answer of what to do with his life. While in the clinic, he observed the people s thoughts and behaviors. After spending some one-on-one time with a couple of the patients there, he realized they were not crazy at all like everyone thought. They simply had a different way of thinking and responding to certain things. One man always held up four fingers and asked everybody, how many fingers do you see? When they all responded, four he said they were crazy. Later on, Patch asked him what the answer was. The man s answer was to focus on something other than the fingers, something in the background. This made you see eight fingers. Another person Patch helped was his roommate, Rudy. He saw squirrels all the time and was petrified of them. Patch helped him to get to the bathroom by playing a simple game of war and shooting them all. He realized from then on that all he wanted to do was help people."