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Psychological Disorders In American Psycho

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In the film, American Psycho, Patrick Bateman works as a banker in Wall Street. Throughout the movie, people found in this career are constantly confused for one another, and Bateman is not an exception. The psychological disorder portrayed is yet to be accurately determined, though while watching the movie, I thought Antisocial Personality Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder were being portrayed. The symptoms shown in the movie for the personality disorder were irritability and aggressiveness, reckless disregard for self and others, and deceitfulness. Constant irresponsibility was shown whenever he was in the office, making lunch arrangements or listening to music rather than actually being shown working. Additionally, he constantly
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