Jan's Movie Reviews - special on Mercurial Style/Borderline disorder: What About Bob?, Single White Female, Fatal Attraction, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.

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: Jan's Movie Reviews - special on Mercurial Style/Borderline disorder: What About Bob?, Single White Female, Fatal Attraction, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle. : Borderline disordered persons are often not so easy to identify. : In the movies Single White Female and Fatal Attraction we also see a woman : who apparently stays quite calm for a long time; in S.W.F. she is imitating the : dress of her roommate and even her hair-do and color (idealization of relationship-partner.) : Untill the switch takes place; fear of abandonment triggers the 'all good' partner image into a change towards 'all bad'. : I guess the borderline?mercurial style persons can be difficult to spot : since they can look happy and cheerful/creative/manic talking (actor Jim Carrey, Robin Williams) but also the : automutilant,- sometimes suicidal - mainly depressed ones (Mrs. Parker and Vicious Circle) belong to this disorder : category. As well as calm and apparently quiet ones (like in the comedy 'What about Bob?') Often borderline persons seem to be one-sided - often with unpredictable periodic swings towards the other pole ('mercurial'.) : Cutting and other mutilating behaviors are very ugly and a producer would probably avoid including them in : his movie, especially in a comedy. But we see it in Fatal Attraction; she (Glenn Close) cuts her arms to keep her loved one. This is not what happens in reality; most automutilant borderlines (mostly young women) cut in secret and the aim is mainly to divert attention from the pain and sadness or them feeling empty in their head: when they cut they say they feel they still exist. : The comedy What About Bob features these Borderline disorder symptoms: : - stalker-behavior : - the romantic idealization of the psychologist : - the bordeline's panic when the psychiatrist goes on : vacation is a cliche in psychiatry. Judith Rossner : ("Looking for Mr. Goodbar") wrote about this : phenomenon in "August" (the month in which : psychoanalysts traditionally go on vacation; text by Dave). : - Also, borderlines are known for "splitting" staff in : in-patient situations into good guys and bad guys and, : through manipulation, actually getting them fighting : against each other. I see some of that in Bob getting : the family on his side against the father. (text by Dave) : :  Jan (incorporating Dave Kelly's comments) :

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