In the movie The Voices the story follows a man named Jerry and his 2 pets, a dog named Bosco and a cat named Mr. Whiskers. Jerry suffers from delusions and hallucinations that manifest from his pets. Jerry is driving home with a co-worker and he hits a stag that comes crashing through his window. Jerry’s hallucinations show him the deer is crying out in pain and wants him to end his suffering. Jerry kills the deer and his co-worker becomes terrified and runs into the woods. While following her into the woods Jerry accidently stabs her and ends up killing her to end her pain like he did with the deer. After returning home Bosco tells Jerry to turn himself in while Mr. Whiskers tells him to hide the body which Jerry does. After this traumatic
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A growing body of empirically based clinical research shows that recovery can occur. The scholarly article by Liberman and Kopelowicz (2005), shows data from clinical research centers that have demonstrated a high rate of symptomatic remission in recent onset and chronic Schizophrenia, using well-crafted multidimensional definition of recovery from Schizophrenia. Harding and collaborators showed that more than half of individuals with diagnosis were able to live productive lives unencumbered by continuous psychotic symptoms. Of the 262 individuals in their study 48- 68 percent met criteria for various dimensions of recovery (Liberman, R. P., & Kopelowicz, A. (2005, June). Recovery From Schizophrenia: A Concept in Search of Research. Psychiatric Services, 56(6), 735-742.). Another stigma portrayed in this film is that all people with Schizophrenia are violent or killers. This is shown in the movie when Jerry hallucinates that the stag tells him to end his suffering and so he does. He then accidently stabs his co-worker and instead of calling 911 he proceeds to stab her multiple times to end her suffering. There are many disorders when left untreated that can lead to violent outrages amongst the patient but multiple studies have proven that there is a decreased rate
A growing body of empirically based clinical research shows that recovery can occur. The scholarly article by Liberman and Kopelowicz (2005), shows data from clinical research centers that have demonstrated a high rate of symptomatic remission in recent onset and chronic Schizophrenia, using well-crafted multidimensional definition of recovery from Schizophrenia. Harding and collaborators showed that more than half of individuals with diagnosis were able to live productive lives unencumbered by continuous psychotic symptoms. Of the 262 individuals in their study 48- 68 percent met criteria for various dimensions of recovery (Liberman, R. P., & Kopelowicz, A. (2005, June). Recovery From Schizophrenia: A Concept in Search of Research. Psychiatric Services, 56(6), 735-742.). Another stigma portrayed in this film is that all people with Schizophrenia are violent or killers. This is shown in the movie when Jerry hallucinates that the stag tells him to end his suffering and so he does. He then accidently stabs his co-worker and instead of calling 911 he proceeds to stab her multiple times to end her suffering. There are many disorders when left untreated that can lead to violent outrages amongst the patient but multiple studies have proven that there is a decreased rate