What About Bob? Essays

What About Bob? In the movie “What About Bob?” it’s easy to recognize that Bob Wiley has multiple phobias, but his “doctor” Leo Marvin, a middle aged male, has a narcissistic personality disorder. Marvin takes a break from writing his book and therapy job to go on vacation with his sweet and suggestible family. Work could not be separated from home as Dr. Marvin’s most recent patient, follows him on his vacation. One night during dinner Marvin could only talk to his family about the Good Morning

What About Bob? What About Bob? is a movie directed by Frank Oz and staring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss as Bob Wiley and Dr Leo Marvin, respectfully. It follows as the client, Bob, pursues a relationship outside of therapy with Leo, his counselor. The counselor-client relationship is evident throughout the movie, although it is portrayed as very dysfunctional and unprofessional on the counselor’s side. The counselor role is suppose to be one of support and encouragement towards a resolution

What About Bob is an example of a dysfunctional and inappropriate patient-psychiatrist relationship. In the movie Dr Leo Marvin is a successful psychiatrist who has his own private practice and had his first book published. The day before Dr. Marvin decides to head off for a vacation with his family, he receives a telephone call from another psychiatrist. He asks that Dr. Marvin takes on one of his clients that Leo does take on the new clients but informs his colleague that he will not be able to

(Theme: do not change yourself to fit society's expectations) Bob is a very nice gentle and smart kid, but people's view of him as a top recruit basketball players often gives them the wrong view of him. On the court Bob has to be very aggressive and loud, but off the court he is a totally different person. But, even trying to prove what type of person he really is comes with its own challenges because he knows if the real him comes out people won’t respect him as much wherever he goes. He knows

Bob Wiley exhibits symptoms of Agoraphobia (being afraid to leave his house), and Hypochondria (being hyper aware of illness and thinking he is dying). I feel like Bob’s symptoms of Hypochondria were slightly exaggerated. People with hypochondria typically don’t draw as much intention to their symptoms as Bob does and they typically express their ‘symptoms’ of an illness they believe they have to a doctor. Despite his symptoms appearing a bit overexaggerated, he still shows many real symptoms throughout

A Psychological Perspective of “What About Bob?” “What About Bob?”, directed by Frank Oz, is a 1991 comedy film starring Bill Murray as Bob Wiley who is a disturbed, yet harmless patient of psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin, portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss. From the beginning of the film, Bob exhibits odd behavior and demonstrates symptoms of irrational fears such as claustrophobia, germophobia, and especially agoraphobia. However, it isn’t until Bob seeks out the professional help of Dr. Leo Marvin—whom

linked to each other in various ways. The movie “What About Bob?” exemplifies this by showing how Bob Wiley’s psychological disorders affect his personality. Bob demonstrates several disorders throughout the movie, but three disorders that stand out are Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Agoraphobia, and Dependent Personality Disorder. Psychological disorders can drastically impact ones personality and make them appear abnormal to others. First, Bob shows symptoms of having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

You flexed and stretched your arms as the ending credits of the movie rolled. You had just watched a movie called What About Bob; it was a funny movie, and another thing that lightened your mood even more. You loved the actor that starred in it; however, you didn’t know his name. It was like Bill Murray, or something… “Did you like the movie?” asked your aunt. You nodded your head, then all of a sudden had to hold back a laugh, because you saw Melanie sleeping. “Yeah, she normally ends up falling

In the movie “What About Bob” from the year of 1991, the main character, Bob possibly had borderline personal disorder and OCD. I did not chose this movie, I watched it in my high school psychology class. It was the first movie that I watched specifically because of a mental illness. In the movie, the mental illness wasn’t specifically specified by the psychologist. Bob knew something was wrong with him by showing that he always needed his psychologist. The symptoms that Bob showed for borderline

the preppy and rich kids, and the greasers are the poor, trouble-making kids. Johnny Cade was a greaser. He had greasy dark hair, sad eyes, and was known as the "lost puppy". Johnny grew up in an abusive family and that made him scared and uneasy about certain situations. A hero is someone who puts others first, understands the needs and gives help to others, and is determined to help and succeed. Johnny is a hero, because of his qualities selflessness, empathy, and courage. The first quality that

memory. One is no longer trying to recover the irrecoverable, we become one with the attainable nostalgic object, which was never lost. This availability of the past makes it atemporal, free from the limits of time. Nostalgia is no longer about the lost, but about the found. The tension between the times, the past and the present and sets of sentimental values seem to have faded, it is no longer a matter of the heart. The tension is now found more in the art of collecting and ‘re-creating’ the past

CHAPTER ONE 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The concept of women empowerment seems to have been used in the 1980s by third world feminists ‘to address the issue of gender differences that exist in the control and distribution of resources’ (Datta & Kornberg, 2002). There is however lack of consensus on its major characteristics. According to Datta and Kornberg (2002), women empowerment refers to ‘strategies that women use to increase their control of resources and generate decision making capacity’

over. It was a relief until Vincent climbed to the top of the fence. The dogs hit the fence and Vincent fell to the ground.Vincent had broken his arm. That’s when Miguel and Danny called Vincent’s dad;he came out with Danny and Miguel. They explained what happened to Vincent’s arm. Miguel

Swanson would think of menial subjects to pass the time with – such as what he’d eat for dinner that night or when would be a good time to check his mailbox – but it didn’t help as he eventually ran out of topics to contemplate, and the time it took to grow bored became shorter and shorter each day. His motivation came from

looked down and saw a bunch skeleton bones, and we both lost it.’’ With all the rain and flooding went on about five days ago, not many people have been on the roads. However, the alert for everyone to stay inside was removed two days ago, so more people have been outside and on the street.

during the beating. She had a concussion, eye and ear damage, and bruises. Victoria had nightmares about the severe beating. The bad thing is that the classmates recorded this three minute video so the beating could be put on YouTube. The classmate that was holding the camera actually said “there is only seventeen seconds left, make it good”. The girls threaten her not to go to the cops. What makes someone act like

“through pain, comes discipline” may sound strange or even unorthodox to the average person, but to someone who has stepped on the yellow footprints at Parris Island, they might beg to differ. It was an intense first night on the island to say the least; about 60 of us or so packed on a small bus that was well over capacity, and the fear could be sensed in us all. I remember the long silence finally being broken by a drill instructor’s polite words to “get the hell off his bus”, after those kind words were

children. The young, mentally scarred children were not only separated from their family, they were not allowed to see them for two days. Without parental consent or attorneys present, Michael and Shannon were taken to the police station to be questioned about the murder of their sister. The police took Michael several times, and was singled out by the Escondido police because of how distant he seemed after his sister's body was discovered. Michael was now the prime suspect in his sister's brutal

"What!" I cried swerving off the road and skidding to a halt. Spinning about in my seat, I reached into the back and snatched my friends arm. I pulled his limb to me and closely examined my wound. Hank was right. He had an open cut on his finger and it was bleeding. The flow of his blood was partially staunched by the thick drool covering it. Dean, who had been fumbling with something behind his seat spun back around. He ripped the top off of a bottle of peroxide and poured the contents over

All Summer in A Day by Ray Bradbury is about how a little jealousy can turn into rage and reveals that children, along with adults, can be blinded by something so simple.The author of All Summer in A Day believes jealousy and bullying are the key emotions played in this short story. Bradbury claims that the main characters, Margot, is being bullied because she was Earth longer. Whereas, the other students don’t even remember Earth because of how early they all moved to Venus. When Margot arrives