Harley Quinn Analysis

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These articles are very useful because they offered information about histrionic personality disorder that helped me understand more on the way Harley Quinn acts. In addition, in the first article, it spoke about a psychological treatment that actually helps individuals cope with this disorder. Therefore, I now know that there could be hope for this character if she would undergo cognitive analytic therapy. As well, in the second article it spoke about how possessing some positive traits can correlate with the traits one demonstrates while being under histrionic personality disorder. This made me realize that, it is actually true that some personality traits this character showed in the movie were actually positive but always turned into negative traits thus, demonstrating signs of the mental disease.

As previously mentioned, Harley Quinn’s symptoms are very similar to the symptoms that were mentioned in both of the articles that I read. I feel like her character would surely benefit from the treatments of therapy and the acknowledgement of knowing that she has this mental illness. Harley Quinn never underwent treatment in the movie, but was confined in jail. Therefore, the fact that she was in a confined space against her free will, just pronounced the symptoms of her mental disorder.

Reference

Goodfriend, W. (2016, July 30). Mad Love: Personality Disorders in Harley Quinn & the Joker. Retrieved October 2, 2016, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/psychologist-the-movies/201607/mad-love-personality-disorders-in-harley-quinn-the-joker

W. (n.d.). Harley Quinn. Retrieved October 2, 2016, from http://comicvine.gamespot.com/harley-quinn/4005-1696/

Kellett, S. (2007). A time series evaluation of the treatment of histrionic personality disorder with cognitive analytic therapy. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 80(3), 389-405. doi:10.1348/147608306x161421

Furnham, A. (2014). A Bright Side, Facet Analysis of Histrionic Personality Disorder: The Relationship Between the HDS Colourful Factor and the NEO-PI-R Facets in a Large Adult Sample. The Journal of Social Psychology, 154(6), 527-536. doi:10.1080/00224545.2014.953026