Introduction
In the movie, ‘Shutter Island’ Martin Scorsese who is the director has mysterious modelled a gloomy as well as devious psychological tease in the most accepted traditional way. The movie depicts the psychology of nursing practice showing how mentally disturbed patients in the hospital can disappear without the knowledge of nurses.
For instance, the movie draws the viewers back to the time during the second world war when Teddy Daniels alongside his new colleague are send out to carry out investigations on dubious disappearance of patients from asylum meant for the criminal cases related to psychology (Townsend, 2009). There arises the challenge of security and health care service delivery to mentally ill criminals as well as the ability of the nurses to deal with search cases.
Shutter Island and Psychology Nursing Practice
As opposed to most of the films of the twentieth century on psychological illness, the shutter island is devoid of the new psychological nursing practice. This gives a clear description of a dim psychological disorder where the disorder is equivalent to the incurability and the risk whilst the sick is equivalent to the monster.
Therefore the director of the movie cannot be compelled of an agenda that is liberal. The Shutter Island instead simplifies the fact that the asylum entertains violence .This is supported by the assertion of Leornardo who indicates that the psychologically challenged criminals do not deserve ‘calm’ (Townsend, 2009).
The play rotates around a precious as well as a rare chance on the shutter island to trying to figure out whether mind therapy can uphold the defences of the world war two survivors who are devoid of sight, is traumatised, and who has also gone an extra mile to invade the asylum murdering his wife for having murdered the children.
This is a dark plot full of complexities and it gets more paranoid as the film goes by. It twists together themes about the Hoovers, psychological trials, institutions as well as the Nazis which call for some efforts by the institution holders. As the film progresses, most characters tend to be biased towards the mental health leader. The characters look at this leader as a protagonist psychotherapist. This makes them to assume the fact that their leader is a corrupt leader
The lead psychiatrist does not concur with lobotomy (psychosurgery) as well as the advent of new prescription for instance chlorpromazine. For instance, the Germany psychiatrics arc can be dated back to Nazi experimenter and then down to pragmatic lobotomy. Ben Kingsley On the other hand founds his knowledge in psychiatry to the experience he acquired while dealing post traumatic stress patients who were depicting nightmares.
The lead psychiatrists practice however, does not yield any fruit. This rises a bit of alarm to the current psychology of nursing practice which does not work for most of the mentally challenged patients. Such unsuccessful procedures performed by the lead psychiatrists depict a lope hole in the psychology of nursing practice. It also questions the optimism of psychotherapy putting a more sceptical and cynical point of view to the psychologically challenged patients.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the film is well directed, and carefully brought out with fine work in health institutions details of the current health care institutions as well as the security aspect embodied. Those characters that had had an opportunity to work in health care institutions identify with the asylum in the island.
The people can agree that the challenges experienced on the island are as a result of the conflicting needs of both health care services and security. Never the less, the film ends such that most of its viewer’s ends up with distorted and compromised sympathy to the psychology patients. This calls for those in psychology nursing practice to accept and embrace advent of new treatments to help save the mental cases.
Reference
Townsend, M. (2009). Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing:Concepts of care in Evidence-Based Practice (6th ed.). Philadephia: F.A Davis.