A woman named Jeanette goes to teach a girls’ school. After being inspired by doctor Gary’s speech, she takes the challenge of improving herself. Throughout the movie you can notice the woman suffers some type of anxiety. But her admiration toward Dr. Gary gives her encouragement to make the next step. The school she will be teaching seems creepy and also strange. The school apparently was a mental institute in the past. Now is invaded by supposedly Dr. Gary’s’ patients, although the girls look perfectly sane. Jeanette stated “As soon as I hear you, I knew I wanted to work with you”-15:00. In the film Dr. Gary played the eloquent and knowledgeable man, which knew all the answers in reference to psychological …show more content…
She utilized calming techniques through her possible panic attacks. According du Plessis and Brennan (2012), they are several techniques than can be utilized to calm this attacks. This includes an interceptive exposure/hyperventilation provocation task. This method consists on trying to avoid exposures factors that could cause the person to hyperventilate, panic-like sensations, increase heart rate, and visual changes. In the film, each time Jeanette saw herself hyperventilating, she will utilize breathing techniques in a slow and steady pace to decrease the sensation of panic-like in her …show more content…
Starting from the weird Dr. Shiefel and also the scenes where the woman walked to psych looking rooms with electric chair and all the white walls. Jeanette kept going back to the old man to get reassurance if she was not hallucinating or was real all she was feeling and hearing. Dr. Shiefel then explained to her that “the atmosphere everywhere is charged with electricity, vibration and you are very sensitive”-43:54. It was thought-provoking to see the black cat watch the entire scenarios throughout the movie. The black cat, according to Goodeve (2015), is a sign of