Analyzing Mental Disorders Bella and Edward

Houston, Edward Cullen and Isabella morose teenager who likes to act reckless Swan is one of many symptoms of mental disorders experienced by humans. Twilight character soon becomes arena of practitioners to diagnose psychiatric disorders.

Twilight movie phenomenon was not only able to hypnotize millions of people from the romanticism of various age groups. The film also became effective teaching tool psychiatrists in America.

In the Twilight movie Edward is a vampire is told more than 100 years old but has the appearance like a teenager 17 years. Teenage attitude shown by the condition of melancholia.

While Bella is a teenager who was willing to sacrifice themselves for entry into the hazard or risk. For the second such mental disorders by psychiatrists is medication with cognitive behavioral therapy methods to counter the negative thoughts automatically.

Analysis of Bella and Edward was revealed in the American Psychiatric Association conference last month. Psychiatrists analyze Twilight is a sort of neurosis on effective teaching tool in 12 weeks and labeled with the subjects 'Therapy Bites'.

"Students in the disciplines of mental health can sometimes learn a lot about what it means to be human through a popular film or novel, this is as good as sitting with patients," says Glen Gabbard, professor of psychiatry and psychoanalysis at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, as quoted from the Wall Street Journal, Wednesday (06/09/2010).

Use of books and films in studying the psychological development in large part because fictional characters do not need to protect privacy, such as when dealing with real patients.

This condition means that a person could learn the symptoms of psychiatric disorder overall. Whereas for patients, not all people want to tell me they experienced symptoms in public.

In Twilight practitioners can evaluate biological factors, psychological and cultural affects each character, for example:

1. Could Edward's eye color change as a symptom of Wilson's disease (a rare condition that causes the body must maintain the copper content).
2. Could drinking the blood as a form of Pica (medical disorder where people often eat something that is unusual).
3. Recognize symptoms of mental disorder, some experts claim by reading the Twilight could help him understand the true condition of the patient.


Dr. Rosegrant in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association last year said aside from Twilight, Harry Potter books also showed more anxiety teenagers, the theme of disappointment, the struggle for an identity and even fantasy aggression.

However, this thinking is not approved by all parties, because the critics argue that learning about the human condition through fiction is something that is not realistic.