The protagonist of the film Black Swan, twenty-eight year old Nina Sayers, shows signs of numerous disorders through her abnormal behavior. Nina's life is consumed by her occupation: professional ballet dancer. Nina resides with her mother and rarely socializes with others. She has difficulty concentrating, is restless, irritable, suffers from muscle tension and sleep disturbances due to nightmares. Nina also feels very uncomfortable in social and intimate situations. She appears to be unable to successfully interact with those around her. The interaction Nina has with her fellow dancers appears to be tense and superficial. Nina displays behavior that indicates that she sees all other dancers as competitors rather than potential partners or friends. Being very introverted and unable to share any part of herself with those around her, even her mother, who seems to be the only person remotely close to Nina, leads her to seek companionship with parts of herself instead of healthy relationships with others. . Nina shows signs of generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and paranoid personality disorder through these abnormal behaviors. Nina has also lost consciousness on several occasions and shows signs of mutilation on her body without her knowledge: bruises, cuts and scratches. According to her mother, Nina used to self-mutilate as a child, but recently it started happening again. Nina sees images of herself, but a different, “evil” version of herself. This could be the awakening of an other personality or sub-personality. Nina's stress level with the new performance in her ballet company may have played a role in this change. Dissociative identity disorder is said to be… the focus of the article… compiled with extensive amounts of individual psychotherapy. Free association must be applied in these therapeutic sessions; free association is when the therapist asks the patient to describe any thought, feeling, or image that comes to mind (Comer, 2011). It is hoped that Nina will relive the repressed feelings of her childhood, this is called catharsis and is extremely important for the progression of the treatment. Catharsis is essential for Nina to resolve her internal conflicts and overcome her problems. Hypnotherapy should be applied during regular therapy sessions to combat Nina's dissociative identity disorder. His sub-personality must be integrated and merged into a single personality, before other sub-personalities appear. If these therapies and medications are continued consistently and Nina cooperates with the treatment, the likelihood of a successful recovery is high..
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