Schizotypal Personality Disorder: A Case Study of the Movie Classic TAXI DRIVER
by
Francine R Goldberg, Ph.D.
Copyright 2011 Francine R Goldberg, Ph.D.,
All rights reserved.
Published in eBook format by Beneficial Film Guides
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ISBN-13: 978-1-9341-0717-1
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Learning Objectives
This e-book is designed to be used as a companion to the Columbia Pictures film, TAXI DRIVER, which can be rented or purchased in DVD format from a vendor of the user’s choice. It will explain, demonstrate and guide participants in the application of knowledge about diagnostic symptoms, social, vocational and educational impairment, treatment, psychiatric rehabilitation and disability management for a person who has schizotypal personality disorder. This movie classic portrays a textbook example of the disorder and is valuable for learning about it. It should be emphasized that the “Hollywood effect” may tend to over/under exaggerate the symptoms and behaviors experienced by many individuals with this disorder.
This e-book will explain:
•Symptoms, behaviors and characteristics of schizotypal personality disorder
•Functional impact of schizotypal personality disorder
•Recommended psychotherapeutic and pharmacological treatment
•Psychiatric rehabilitation: Social skills training
•Useful psychological inventories
•Psychodynamics of stalking
Outline of Scenes
Introduction: Schizotypal Personality Disorder (STPD)
Schizophrenia spectrum
Negative and cognitive symptoms
Prevalence
Odd cluster
Introduction of STPD to DSM
Scene 1: Start
Scene 2: Travis Bickle
Vocational issue
Peculiar ideas
STPD and the military
Useful psychological testing
Vague descriptions
Childhood symptoms
Biosocial formulation
Functional impairment
Psychosocial rehabilitation
Tangential digression
DSM-IV-TR criterion A(4) for STPD: Verbal deficits and speech patterns
DSM-IV-TR classification system
The challenge of interpersonal relationships
Scene 3: Tom & Betsy
Stalking
Dangerousness
Frontal confrontation
Scene 4: Wizard’s Court
DSM-IV-TR criterion A(6) for STPD:
Affective style
DSM-IV-TR criterion A(5) for STPD:
Suspiciousness and paranoid ideation
DSM-IV-TR criterion A(9) for STPD:
Excessive social anxiety
Cognitive-behavioral formulation
DSM-IV-TR criterion A(1) for STPD: Ideas of reference
Scene 5: A New Volunteer
Unusual language, idiosyncratic phrasing and construction
Impaired reality testing
DSM-IV-TR criterion A(2) for STPD:
Telepathic, paranormal and superstitious communication
Bizarre fantasies
DSM-IV-TR criterion A(7): Odd behavior and appearance
Another look at speech patterns
Scene 6: Charles Palantine
DSM-IV-TR A(4) for STPD:
Odd thinking and speech
Empathetic and understanding interviewing
Scene 7: Aborted Fare
Ideas of reference
Scene 8: A Date with Betsy
DSM-IV-TR Criterion A for STPD
Social and interpersonal deficits
Inattentiveness to social conventions
DSM-IV-TR criterion A(3) for STPD: Impaired reality testing
Transient psychotic episodes
Scene 9: Confrontation
Unkempt appearance
A trigger: Close interpersonal relationships
Obsession…enmity
Therapeutic relationships
Internal/external rage
On being an object of an obsession
Unusual
