Psychological Analysis on Shutter Island

Presentation on Psychological analysis of movie Shutter Island including Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley and others.

1. Movie: Shutter island Presented by : Muhammad Hamza (2012214) Hanium Iqbal (2012158) Bilal Rizvi (2012188) Laiba Hasan (2012162) Obaid ur Rehman (2012220) Bilal Qadir (1912391)

2. PLOT OVERVIEW S hutter Island  is a 2010 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese,  Based on Dennis Lehan's 2003 novel of the same name. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner and fellow deputy marshal. The film begins in 1954 with two U.S. Marshals, Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) traveling to a psychiatric hospital on Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to investigate the disappearance of one of the patients, Rachel Solando . Teddy believes his wife's killer is on the island . Teddy's “partner” is a doctor at the hospital, and the whole investigation was an experiment to help treat his PTSD, dissociative identity disorder and Schizophrenia. This film explores a variety of illnesses, psychological approaches and therapies. Characters : Teddy Daniels / Andrew Laeddis , Chuck Aule / Lester Sheehan , Dr .John Cawley , Dolores Chanal , Rachelo Solando .

3.   TEDDY DANIELS Teddy Daniels is someone Laeddis created so he could be good. He wanted to believe that Andrew Laeddis was a different person. Teddy Daniels claims to be an investigator at Ashecliffe Mental Institution located  on Shutter Island.He served in World War II. He seems to be highly intelligent and healthy.  He has delusions in which he believes patient number 67 is being kept a secret. The delusions convince him that the patient is Andrew Laeddis who killed his wife. Teddy  feels like everyone in the institution is purposely attempting to keep him as a patient. Teddy finally realizes that he is the lost patient,  Andrew Laeddis . The most violent patient on Shutter Island.

4. Andrew Laeddis Andrew Laeddis is the main character of this movie. He was actually the 67th patient of Ashecliffe Hospital. Andrew killed his wife and just because he couldn’t live with that, he made an alternate personality of himself. Andrew Laeddis had Multiple personality disorder and Schizophrenia. The hospital’s objective was to cure Laeddis through cognitive behavioral therapy.

5. Chuck Aule / Dr Lester Sheehan Chuck was unknown to Teddy before the movie begins, he claimed to be a US Marshal. Chuck looks to be on Teddy's side and has his back throughout the film, but he is telling Dr Cawley everything Teddy has revealed Chuck was a soft-spoken person which helped him to gain trust of Teddy. Chuck's duty was to keep an eye on Teddy throughout, and it turns out that he is also his doctor.

6. Dr Cawley Dr. Cawley is Chief of Staff at Shutter Island Secretly using threatening experimental techniques on patients   master in assessing whether or not a patient is psychotic  emotionless

7. DOLORES CHANEL  Dolores was Andrew's wife. She killed all 3 of their children and then asked Andrew to set her free and then Andrew shot her. She was suffering from bipolar disorder. She appeared in Andrew's hallucinations.

8. Portrayal of Psychological Disorders in Shutter Island Schizophrenia :  A mental disorder where people lose touch with reality  Distorted perception, thoughts, and Behavior. Inappropriate emotions and reactions  Confusion  Hallucinations and Delusions Post Traumatic Stress Disorder:   Anxiety disorder following a traumatic event  Often reliving the event in dreams or thoughts  Irritability, hyperawareness, and insomnia. Dissociative identity disorder  feeling disconnected from one’s own thoughts, feelings, and body Depression and/or mood swings Anxiety Amnesia (memory loss or feeling a time distortion) Suicide risk — 70% of people with DID have attempted suicide.

9. Mental Health Treatment in Martin Scorsese’s ‘Shutter Island’. Psychotherapy -correct distorted thinking pattern Cognitive Behavioral Therapy -to help the patient recognize and correct their thought patterns and behaviors that lead to their problematic feelings. Antipsychotic Drugs -to treat delusions (Clozapine)

10. Conclusions  Teddy is not a real person but a delusion created by inmate Andrew Laeddis. The ending  reveals that DiCaprio's character is a patient himself. The reason behind him to be admitted here was he  murdered his wife (Michelle Williams) because she went insane and killed their children.