The Blacklist is an interesting thriller that focuses on capturing the most dangerous and wanted criminals in the world with the help of a former US Navy officer who is now a high-profile criminal, Raymond Reddington.  All the episodes are named after the serial number given to each criminal. The episode I would like to discuss today is No. 104 – Lord Baltimore. This episode explains an important disorder that we have studied under personality disorders, that is, disociative identity disorder. It is the only episode in the whole series that explicitly shows the symptoms of a personality disorder. In this episode, a woman named Nora Mills is suspected of being the so-called ‘Lord Baltimore’, but strangely enough, she is not aware of this. She also shows other forms of behaviour that she is unaware of. When taken back to Nora’s past, we see that she had a twin sister named Rowan Mills. Rowan was a happy, outgoing and well-adjusted child while on the other hand No...

Ananya Iyer For exam points The claim that “sheher tumhe paagal bana dega” (”the city will drive you mad”) is one that has been made cliché by its use casually and clinically, by grandmothers and researchers, alike. The origin of this statement and its validity to a layman seems apparent, it lies in the aesthetic of “hectic”, “crowded” cities as opposed to be “calm”, “serene” villages. In terms of psychology, there have been numerous studies that ascribed causality or aggravation of mental disorders, especially schizophrenia, to cities. However, the factors that contribute to this causality in some cases, prove to be generalized or warped. Since there are a large plethora of elements that can contribute to the onset of psychotic symptoms and schizophrenia, it is understandably difficult for the researcher to control all these elements in a study of schizophrenia, which may then affect that statistics and conclusions of the experiment. Factors such as migration patte...

Ananya Sood Remedial for Exam The psychological analysis of Cholly Breedlove from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye  Easily one of the most impactful yet scarring novels of the 1970's, The Bluest Eye paints an explicit and horrifying image of the experiences of the African American race after the period of slavery. Toni Morrison authors this eye-opening piece of literature and takes us to the world of suffering and damage caused by racial segregation. Morrison sets this novel with children at its very core, surrounded by adults who constantly neglect them. A psychoanalytical viewpoint can be used to understand the character of Cholly Breedlove. This viewpoint psychologically analyses Cholly’s actions and connects them to his past and the problems in his upbringing. This point of view of analysis was first coined by Sigmund Freud, who said that psychoanalytic is a theory of personality organization and a person can only be cured if they can make their unconsciou...