Primal_Fear

Primal Fear Primal Fear is a movie about the vicious murder of a renowned Archbishop by an altar boy. The prominent community figure, the Archbishop, was stabbed brutally dozens of times, and the altar boy played by Edward Norton was found to have committed the murder. The defense (Richard Gene) used the insanity defense because later in the movie it appeared as if Edward Norton was suffering from Dissociative Identity Disorder, more commonly referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder. It was also discovered that the Archbishop was sexually abusing the boy, which they believed may have triggered a stressor for the murder and onset of DID. It states in the text that most often patients who suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder were horribly abused as a child, which holds true in this situation. Also, it seems to be a symptom of DID that often times, patients “lose time” as they switch from personalities. Aaron (Edward Norton) experienced a loss of time when he switched from one alter to the other. Roy was his other personality. He was primal, fear, disorder, movie, because, aaron, suffering, roy, personality, often, norton, murder, identity, events, edward, dissociative, defense, boy, archbishop, times, time, switched, patients, one, distinct, commonly, alter, altar, whether, video, vicious, vanished, unable, true, troublesome, triggered, traumatic, topic