Media Correlations

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/03/serial-killer-homework-assignment-australia_n_2233667.html

    Shocking Serial Killer Homework Assignment Canceled at Australian High School

           This incident deals with an Australian teacher giving a serial killer assignment project to be completed so that the students could enter the mind of an actual serial killer. The article states that the assignment was discontinued and banned from the curriculum by the school's principle. Many parents and faculty members complained that the project could possibly instill ideas or potential plans that could lead to plausible actions of a sociopath. The assignment was a creative approach to understand the view of a psychopath and the conflicts within a disorder of abnormal psychology.
           The article relates to The Good Son because Henry was already carrying out psychopathic actions and behaviors while the parents in Australian feared that this project could react with hidden psychopathic tendencies within teenagers and stimulate behavior of a serial killer.

•  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmyxNW57h1o

     Can a child be a psychopath?
(side note: Dexter trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwPAyFPacy0 )

             Dr. Ochberg discusses the correlation of adult serial killers with early childhood behaviors and where it can be diagnosed at a younger age before the killings begin. He also address the lack of conscious and emotions and whether it is genetic or environmental. Along with this video clip, the television show Dexter is applicable to this topic since his father saw psychopathic tendencies within Dexter at an early age and challenged him to control it and use it for good, even if he must eventually kill to release.
             Henry showed many signs of early psychopathic behaviors such as a lack of emotions or unable to experience feelings as well as being manipulative and deceiving while showing no remorse or guilt. Henry correlates with Dr. Ochberg's discussion of whether a child can be diagnosed as a serial killer or not.

• http://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2012/12/time-bury-five-stages-grief-myth

       Time to Bury The Five Stages of Grief Myth
       
              This article discusses the fact that the five stages may be in existence but are not based upon scientific discovery or correlation to research evidence. It introduces the idea that "we all grief in our own way," which creates the individual, makes people feel different and special compared to others instead of grouped together as a human race under the typical five stages.
               Mark does express denial in The Good Son but also rationalizes that his mother is with him and is also in another form in his life. This relates because the denial stage is clearly represented within the film but contributes to the individualistic idea that we all have our own ways of coping with loss.