Psychological Disorders - Essay Example

Psychological disorder Psychological disorder “The Stepfather” is a movie in which the main character David actually Dylan Walsh plays the role of an Obsessive-compulsive disorder patient who is very disturbed and murders the family after getting involved with the family. He changes his name, his get up and then finds a family in which the father has died or thee couple is divorces and then charms the woman, gets married and then kills his wife and step-children. In this film the older son of Susan, Michael has returned from the military school to spend the vacations.

Her mother, Susan gets married to David and starts living a calm life. Michael starts to suspect David after some events and the suspicion grows stronger when he quits his job only because he was asked to show his identity card. Michael heirs an investigator to conduct deep search on this but David finds this out and kills her. Michael then with the help of his girlfriend goes to the basement to check out the lockers his stepfather had made and finds the dead body of his father. David also wakes up and traps him in the basement; in this commotion Susan wakes up and becomes shocked.

Michael manages to come out and finds his mother and girlfriend but again gets tapped by David and then fights him and both of them falls of the roof to the ground and becomes unconscious. He wakes up a month later and finds out that David is still alive. In the end he is again shown getting involved with some other family (The stepfather, 2010)David was habitual of keeping everything clean and perfectly set and most of the time he used to spend time keeping everything perfect and whatever he did he wanted it to be perfect and in order and it is a symptom that the patient performs repetitive tasks (Menzies, De, 2003).

It is also a symptom that the patient changes his name and personality and in this film David exhibited this symptom as well. David never tried to consult any doctor or any professional to get rid of this illness. In the film it is not shown the reason of how David got this illness. Therapies like behavioral therapy is the most effective method to make the patient get rid of this disorder (Giddens, 2008).ReferencesThe stepfather. (2010). Sony Pictures. Menzies, R. G., & De, S. P. (2003). Obsessive compulsive disorder: Theory, research, and treatment.

Chichester, West Sussex, England: Wiley.Giddens, S. (2008). Obsessive-compulsive disorder. New York: Rosen.