The Many Faces of Alice
Alice Lee Hudson, while technically not the main character of her featured film, is the primary subject of which the movie is based around. Surprisingly enough, John Carpenter’s The Ward stars everyone but Alice as the women of North Bend Psychiatric Hospital fight for their lives against an unknown demonic entity. As each of the girls begin disappearing from their ward one by one, it is revealed that the aforementioned entity is actually Alice and that the other patients are nothing but delusions representing the various pieces of her fractured personality. The main problem Alice faces from the experiences depicted in the film is her ability to remain in control of her own body, ultimately finding herself overpowered …show more content…
The average number of split personalities usually rounds out to two or three, however reports of four or even five other personalities have been made, with the record being well over ten. Alice falls into the more rarely reported group weighing in with six alternate personalities excluding her own core personality. Aside from the absent Alice, the asylum ward is inhabited by Iris, Zoey, Sarah, Emily, Tammy, and newly added Kristen. In order to understand the whole of Alice, it is imperative that each individual personality and their ‘actions’ are examined. Within the delusion, Kristin is born a warrior. She is driven to escape the ward and fights the system harder than any of the other personalities. By the end of the film the audience discovers this is the mind’s last ditch effort to remain fractured as her treatments began resolving her psychological issues. Zoey is the personality that reflects the childhood trauma, continuing to act and dress like a child as seen by her sucking her thumb and carrying a stuffed rabbit around. Of the personalities, Zoey is the quietest and pushed around the most by the other girls. Emily is the tough but wild, acting on impulse and in rather eccentric matters. This has led critiques to believe that she was meant to represent the ID, or more simply put, the part of the subconscious that deals with basic needs and …show more content…
T., & Golson, J. (1994). Multiple personality disorder: Treatment from an Adlerian perspective. Individual Psychology: The Journal Of Adlerian Theory, Research & Practice, 50(3), 262.
Barlow, M. R., & Chu, J. A. (2014). Measuring fragmentation in dissociative identity disorder: the integration measure and relationship to switching and time in therapy. European Journal Of Psychotraumatology, 51-8. doi:10.3402/ejpt.v5.22250
Brand, B. L., Loewenstein, R. J., & Spiegel, D. (2014). Dispelling Myths About Dissociative Identity Disorder Treatment: An Empirically Based Approach. Psychiatry: Interpersonal & Biological Processes, 77(2), 169-189. doi:10.1521/psyc.2014.77.2.169
Multiple personality. (2016). In Columbia University & P. Lagasse, The Columbia Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from https://libdb.dccc.edu/login?url=http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/columency/multiple_personality/0
Spiegel, D., & Cardena, E. (1991). Disintegrated experience: The dissociative disorders revisited. Journal Of Abnormal Psychology, 100(3),
Alice Lee Hudson, while technically not the main character of her featured film, is the primary subject of which the movie is based around. Surprisingly enough, John Carpenter’s The Ward stars everyone but Alice as the women of North Bend Psychiatric Hospital fight for their lives against an unknown demonic entity. As each of the girls begin disappearing from their ward one by one, it is revealed that the aforementioned entity is actually Alice and that the other patients are nothing but delusions representing the various pieces of her fractured personality. The main problem Alice faces from the experiences depicted in the film is her ability to remain in control of her own body, ultimately finding herself overpowered …show more content…
The average number of split personalities usually rounds out to two or three, however reports of four or even five other personalities have been made, with the record being well over ten. Alice falls into the more rarely reported group weighing in with six alternate personalities excluding her own core personality. Aside from the absent Alice, the asylum ward is inhabited by Iris, Zoey, Sarah, Emily, Tammy, and newly added Kristen. In order to understand the whole of Alice, it is imperative that each individual personality and their ‘actions’ are examined. Within the delusion, Kristin is born a warrior. She is driven to escape the ward and fights the system harder than any of the other personalities. By the end of the film the audience discovers this is the mind’s last ditch effort to remain fractured as her treatments began resolving her psychological issues. Zoey is the personality that reflects the childhood trauma, continuing to act and dress like a child as seen by her sucking her thumb and carrying a stuffed rabbit around. Of the personalities, Zoey is the quietest and pushed around the most by the other girls. Emily is the tough but wild, acting on impulse and in rather eccentric matters. This has led critiques to believe that she was meant to represent the ID, or more simply put, the part of the subconscious that deals with basic needs and …show more content…
T., & Golson, J. (1994). Multiple personality disorder: Treatment from an Adlerian perspective. Individual Psychology: The Journal Of Adlerian Theory, Research & Practice, 50(3), 262.
Barlow, M. R., & Chu, J. A. (2014). Measuring fragmentation in dissociative identity disorder: the integration measure and relationship to switching and time in therapy. European Journal Of Psychotraumatology, 51-8. doi:10.3402/ejpt.v5.22250
Brand, B. L., Loewenstein, R. J., & Spiegel, D. (2014). Dispelling Myths About Dissociative Identity Disorder Treatment: An Empirically Based Approach. Psychiatry: Interpersonal & Biological Processes, 77(2), 169-189. doi:10.1521/psyc.2014.77.2.169
Multiple personality. (2016). In Columbia University & P. Lagasse, The Columbia Encyclopedia. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. Retrieved from https://libdb.dccc.edu/login?url=http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/columency/multiple_personality/0
Spiegel, D., & Cardena, E. (1991). Disintegrated experience: The dissociative disorders revisited. Journal Of Abnormal Psychology, 100(3),