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BirdyStars
Nicolas CageMatthew Modine
Director: Alan ParkerAngela's Ashes, Evita, Bugsy Malone
The Road to Wellville, The Commitments, Mississippi Burning, Midnight Express,
Pink Floyd The Wall, Fame
Birdy Based on 1978 Novel By William Wharton Born Albert William du Aime UCLA: B.A. Art;Psychology Ph.D. Died 10/29/2008 Novel about World War II Veterans Movies from other novels:
“Dad” and “A Midnight Clear”
AgendaAgenda
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After the movie..After the movie..
PTSD Clinical issues, day-to-day veterans’ issues, cinematic considerations
Matt Miller, LCSW;Veterans Administration
--Clinical considerations Tom Price, LCSW,Veteran, St. Patrick Center
--Realities for returned veterans
History of PTSDHistory of PTSD
DSM posttraumatic stress
disorderICD
post-traumatic stress disorderElsewhere,
post traumatic stress disorder
PTSDPTSD
Term created in the mid-1970s,
Officially added as Anxiety Disorder DSM-III (1980)
DSM-5 (2013) created new category:Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
PTSD-like descriptionsPTSD-like descriptions
Ancient EgyptGreeceRomeIndiaElizabethan England
HerodotusHerodotus
In battle of Marathon in 490 B.C. Athenian warrior went permanently
blind although “wounded in no part of his
body.” When he saw nearby comrade killed
OddyseyOddysey
3-week trip home from the Trojan War becomes a ten-year journey
To avoid dangers of Scylla and Charybdis,
do not resist the dangers (much as
modern trauma sufferers must overcome their resistance to memories of the traumatic stressors).
OddyseyOddysey
Sorceress Circe admonishes him, "Do the works of war concern you
still, and toil? He is tempted by Sirens
and the addictive lotus fruit
First Medical TerminologyFirst Medical TerminologySwiss Military Physicians-1678
melancholy incessant thinking of home disturbed sleep or insomnia weakness loss of appetite anxiety cardiac palpitations stupor Fever
First Medical TerminologyFirst Medical Terminology
“Nostalgia”
NostalgiaNostalgia
1863 Public outcry about numerous
“insane soldiers” wandering around First military hospital for the insane Most common diagnosis: Nostalgia.
French Doctors: maladie du pays, (Disease of the Country)
German doctors: heimweh (Homesick)
American Civil WarAmerican Civil War
military physicians diagnosedparalysis tremorsself-inflicted woundsnostalgia
American Civil WarAmerican Civil War Jacob Mendes Da Costa-1871 Study Identified “Soldier’s Heart” (DaCosta’s Syndrome)severe
palpitations; an ailment of the sympathetic nervous system
Soldiers on normal leave often collapsed with emotional illness at home, even when asymptomatic on duty
1901 Schreckneurosen1901 Schreckneurosen
Bruns and Stierlin studied the symptoms of survivors of volcanic eruptions and mining accidents
they coined the term "Schreckneurosen"- the terror neuroses.
Russian Army of 1905Russian Army of 1905
First army to determine that mental collapse was a direct consequence of the stress of war and to regard it as a legitimate medical condition
German physician Honigman served with Red Cross there, and coined the term “war neurosis” [Kriegsneurose]
World War IWorld War I
High psychiatric casualties attributedto the new large-caliber artillery.
Believed the impact of the shells produced a concussion
Thus the term “shell shock” Freud:“war neurosis”caused by conflict
between a soldier’s “war ego” and his “peace ego.”
World War IIWorld War II
1945, Grinker and Spiegel : “Combat… or Battle Stress” “Combat Exhaustion” “Acute combat reaction" “Battle Fatigue”
1952 DSM-I1952 DSM-I
“Gross Stress Reaction” …exposed to severe physical
demands or extreme emotional stress, such as in combat or in civilian catastrophe (fire, earthquake, explosion, etc)
[may be] “previously…normal” The particular stress involved will
be specified as (1)combat or (2) civilian catastrophe
DSM-II -1968DSM-II -1968
307.3 Adjustment Reaction of Adult Life
[different coding for different life stages]
Example: Fear associated with military combat and manifested by trembling, running, and hiding.
First Medical TerminologyFirst Medical Terminology
“Nostalgia”
PTSD—Back to TodayPTSD—Back to Today
Term created in the mid-1970s,
Officially added as Anxiety Disorder DSM-III (1980)
DSM-5 (2013) created new category:Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
Clinical ConsiderationsClinical ConsiderationsIn what ways was Al prepared and
unprepared for the stress of combat before he joined the Army?
How should we diagnose Al, if at all? How should we diagnose Birdy? Does Birdy's behavior in the asylum
correspond with dissociation, or is it more like a form of catatonia?
Clinical ConsiderationsClinical Considerations
How does Birdy’s pre-military behavior relate to his post-deployment behavior, if at all?
Did the movie portray Birdy's pre- and post-deployment behaviors as maladaptive coping, or someone "being himself?"
Clinical ConsiderationsClinical Considerations
How does the movie portray the treatment options available to these two veterans in the Vietnam era, and how has that changed today?
What's up with that ending?! What does it mean, what does the writer imply about the two men, and what's going to happen to each of them?
Cinematic ConsiderationsCinematic Considerations
Chris Clark, BA, Cinema St. Louis
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