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Mr. Rainey's Dissociative Identity Disorder In The Secret Window

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Mort Rainey is a well-known author who is going through a divorce with his wife of 10 years. The author finds his wife in bed with another man at a motel, which was a traumatic event that happened to him. They have been separated for 6 months and are currently going through a divorce. He is being accused of plagiarism by a man named John Shooter, who is a stranger to him. Shooter claims that Mort has stolen his story and demands that he fixes what is wrong, which is the ending of the story. We see shooter become more aggressive with Mort by killing his dog, two friends’ and burning down his ex-wife’s home, when Rainey delays finding the alleged stolen story. Mort becomes paranoid that Shooter is stalking him, continues to have flashbacks …show more content…

The first symptom is “alterations of sense of self’ (DSM-5, 2013, p.293). In the movie we learn that Mort Rainey and John Shooter are the same person, Mr. Rainey. John Shooter is an identity of Mr. Rainey that acts out the murder of his own dog, killing of his friends and the burning of this ex-wife’s home. John Shooter is heard recalling specifics of Mr. Rainey’s wife, pathways he walks and specific location of Mort’s wife’s home. Mort identifies Shooter as his own individual when it is actually Mort the whole time. The second criteria listed for DID is “amnesia” (DSM-5, 2013, p.291). Mort reports to the sheriff that he does not recall the license plate on Shooter’s car and where the tag is from. It is shown that Mort looks at the plate closely and even says out loud “Mississippi”. Also, the murders that have been committed by Mort are not recalled. The third criteria and symptom is substance abuse and self-injury (DSM-5, 2013, p.292). Mr. Rainey gets into an altercation with Shooter in which bruises are left behind on Mr. Rainey. He also has an empty bottle of Hennessey as a sign that he is self-medicating his anxiety of Shooter. The fourth symptom is the division of his identity (DSM-5, 2013, p.293). At the end of the movie, Mort puts on the hat that Shooter wears and takes on the southern accent. We no longer see Shooter as an individual, but Mr. Rainey himself. Mr. Rainey plays out the murder of his wife as Shooter and finishes the ending of the story. The onset and duration of the disorder is not clear in the

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