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Psychoanalytic Creative Case Study

Age: Eighteen (approximate age of entering adulthood from adolescence in her society)

Gender: Female

Ethnicity: Judging by the style of the cottages in the wood where she flees, German.

Race: Caucasian

Living situation: Snow White's father and mother are deceased. She lived with her stepmother and a magic mirror until she came of age. When it was revealed that she was the "fairest of them all," she was evicted from her home. She acted as housekeeper for seven men at their 'bachelor pad' until she left their cottage to marry Prince Charming.

Martial status: Recently married

Significant other: Prince Charming

Children: None, except for the dwarves

Presenting problem: After waiting for her whole life for her "prince to come," Snow White feels unfulfilled in her marriage. She feels as if her husband takes her for granted. Her husband says that she shows all of the symptoms of constant, mild depression. Because she is not happy, she often feels guilty and unworthy of her husband's affection.

History of presenting the problem: Snow White entered my office on the prompting of her husband. She said that ever since she entered her marriage, Snow White has had trouble fulfilling the duties of her marriage. Her husband urged her to seek a psychiatrist after she manifested trouble eating and sleeping, and lacked her earlier cheerfulness.

Description of personality: For much of her life, Snow White has valued her worth in

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terms of her ability to please others, whether by the way she looks (as the 'fairest of them all,' according to the magic mirror) or by her ability to please others in another feminine duty, that of keeping house. She is willing to work hard, but is overly trusting of people, as evidenced in her willingness to sleep in a strange person's house (the dwarf's cottage) and to accept and eat a poisoned apple from a strange woman.

Theoretical basis: Psychoanalysis

Snow White has a very unstable ego and rarely allows the impulses of her id, including anger to manifest themselves. Her libido has been repressed by virtue of pleasing others. She has received little validation from loving parental figures. Her parents died when she was very young and never gave her a clear sense of autonomy, identity, and self-worth. She looks to others to define her purpose in life, as manifest in her earlier fixation on her prince coming and making her life perfect. The displacement of her problems with her stepmother was projected onto the figure of a perfect prince, her anger sublimated into a fantasy marriage. She defines her personal sense of worth in terms of how others see her, especially men, and is prone to idealize male figures. This makes her extremely vulnerable, especially around men, given that her main sense of identity has come from her appearance or her housekeeping duties. Her lack of positive female role models and relationships makes it difficult to relate to women in friendly, non-sexual and uncompetitive ways.

Unconsciously, Snow White tries to find acceptance by making herself indispensable by acting as a housekeeper for the dwarfs. A desire to lower her status as a protective mechanism, since her beauty caused her stepmother to reject her, may also be evident in her behavior. Snow White shows some masochistic tendencies, as… READ MORE

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This paper is for a personality psychology class, the paper is a "psychoanalytic creative case study". You must describe a unreal character either pinocchio from the walt disney movie snow white or spiderman. In this paper you are a psychologist and the character is coming to your office with their problem. The outline of the paper is below

Name: Name of unreal character, either Pinocchio, Snow white, or Spiderman.

Identifying information: Include age, male/female, ethnicity, race, living situation, martial status, significant other and children of the character (make it up if you need to do so).

Presenting problem: For what reason is the person seeking help at this time? You are pretending that the character is visiting you in your office. You are a psychologist.

(this should deal with their personality and a crisis which they are having, which can be made up or which happens in the movie of whichever character you choose)

History of presenting problem: How long has this person been having this presenting problem?

Description of personality: Make sure to include challenges and strengths.

Theoretical Basis: This is the major portion of the paper, and this section should be about 2 pages in length. Present the personality according to psychoanalytic theory. Use the following terms and concepts- Unconscious, Manifest content verus latent content, Structure of the psyche- Id, Ego, SuperEgo, libido, stages of psychosocial development, fixation, complexes, types of defense mechanisms such as repression, reaction formation, denial, projection, displacement, regression, rationalization, sublimation.

Some of the definitions of the terms for the last part is as follows:

Id- undifferentiated, unsocialized core of personality that contains the basic psychic energy and motivations.

Ego- the personality structure that develops to deal with the real world, in neo-analytic theory, this term refers to the individuality of a person that is the central core of personality, aspect of personality that is conscious and embodies the sense of self.

SuperEgo- personality structure that develops to internalize societal rules and guide goal seeking behavior toward socially acceptable pursuits.

Repression- defense mechanism that pushes threatening thoughts onto unconscious

Reaction formation- defense mechanism that pushes away threatening impluses by overemphasizing the opposite in ones thoughts or actions

Denial- defense mechanism in which one refuses to acknowledge anxiety-provoking stimuli

These are just some of the definitions, Id, Ego, and SuperEgo need to be in the paper as well as other terms and concepts mentioned. The paper should present each part of this outline.

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