I would like to evaluate the psychological aspects of the movie Fight Club. In the movie Edward Norton plays the narrator throughout the movie. The narrator (Edward Norton) is an automobile company employee who travels to accident sites to perform product recall cost appraisals. The narrator is the main character of the movie and we learn some psychological aspects of the character. The narrator suffered from severe insomnia. He said that he could not sleep for at least six months. In order to find some solace and social networking he went to different support groups. His doctor refuses to write a prescription for his insomnia and instead suggests that he visit a support group for testicular cancer victims in order to appreciate real suffering. By attending the group, the narrator feels distraught at the condition of these ill-fated people and breaks down. He is then able to sleep soundly and subsequently fakes more illnesses so he can attend other support groups in order to get out his pent up emotions through crying. The narrator's routine is disrupted when he begins to notice another impostor, Marla, at the same meetings and his insomnia returns. The narrator on a business trips invents this alternate personality name Tyler Durden and decides to live with him when he returns from his trip to find his apartment blown up.
The narrator suffers from insomnia and what I believe is multiple personalities. In the movie the doctor does not take the narrator seriously and does not prescribe medications or offer some behavioral intervention. The narrator seems depressed and socially deficient meaning that he has no interpersonal relationships. His family is non-existent in the movie and the only information we get is that his father left when he was five. The narrator also seems to be suicidal in ways that he imagines that a plane will crash or he will be in an accident.
There are many behavioral interventions that will benefit the narrator. To treat the narrator...