The Immortal Life Of Erika

She Enculturated to hold prejudice against individuals with mental illness. As a child, she often heard of her mother criticizing a young adult in her neighborhood who often hospitalized for his psychiatric illness, probably schizophrenia. When Erika and her mother saw him walking around, her mother strictly warned her not to get close to him. Around the same time, she was seeing a dentist in a hospital that consisted of two departments, dental and psychiatric. She already created images of mental illness as monstrous.
She has not Acculturated in psychological problems as she never discuss about mental illness with anyone. Or no one wanted to talk about their problems due to cultural stigma. Hence, she does not have a chance to talk about …show more content…
At the same time, she interpreted her depressive mood as a characteristic of a good musician like many others who got though their psychiatric, psychological problems. She even theorized that a high level of sensitivity caused the psychiatric symptoms. Good musicians/composers should be sensitivity enough to create good music. For example, young David Bowes made himself insane by painting his super small room red. Soon, his madness made him compose eccentric songs. Erika blamed that others need to change their behaviors that made her sick. Instead of receiving a proper psychotherapy for her emotional problem, she saw a psychic person frequently. Nina, a slab from Eastern Europe caught Erika on the street and promised to improve Erika’s life. Although Erika didn 't fully trust Nina’s psychic ability, she eventually took a risk, then paid so much as Nina wished. Since she grew up in the superstitious family, psychic power is not uncommon for her. Still she felt guilty and kept her psychic meetings secret from anyone. When Nina’s work didn 't meet her expectation, her could not handle her furious irritation towards Nina. Erika has gradually come to understand the seriousness of her abnormal state of mind. However, she still cannot decide whether she should go to a proper …show more content…
in the middle of her young adult stage. According to Erikson’s model, (1997) she already passed the psychosocial crisis of Intimacy vs. Isolation during her adolescence stage in her Enculturation. It is uncertain that every immigrant would take the same path continuously towards the end of life in Aculturation. Especially, her Ideological Worldview she passed in her Enculturation can be affected by many factors in her Aculturation. Still, her vitality to come to the U.S. was represented as the Basic Strengths of Autonomy, Initiative, and Industry in her childhood. Reason she avoids to feel Shame, Doubt, and Guilt can consider to be achieved as Culture Ontogeny in the collective culture in her Enculturation. Assumingly, it is not easy to untwist her values during her