SOCI 385 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Gregory House, Psycho Killer, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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The alternating presentation of two or more distinct personality states within a single person. Amnesia experienced by the host personality for periods during which an alternate personality is in control. The reason that films employing the sdid plot structure are so effective is that they elicit just such fears-and do so far more directly, and viscerally, than other horror films generally do. By depicting those with disease as radically unlike our- selves, we mentally quarantine ourselves from the possibility of dissolution which disease represents to us. Films which utilize the sdid plot structure work, ultimately, because they manage to convince the audience that the character who suffers from did is "a man (or woman) like ourselves. " As has been noted, it is almost never the case that mental illness is accurately (or sympathetically) depicted in horror films, and horror films depicting did have never been an exception to this rule. Depict second personality as a psycho killer or murderer.
