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Practical Work On Patch Adams

The movie Patch Adams takes place in therapeutic environments such as a hospital, a medical school, and a cabin hospital. Patch Adams adopts various roles as a provocateur, healer, leader, and saboteur while trying to create a new type of medicine based on empathy. He forms a group to establish an alternative social hospital. Communication varies from functional with friends to dysfunctional with authority figures. In key scenes, Adams uses unorthodox tactics such as play to help patients.

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Practical Work On Patch Adams

The movie Patch Adams takes place in therapeutic environments such as a hospital, a medical school, and a cabin hospital. Patch Adams adopts various roles as a provocateur, healer, leader, and saboteur while trying to create a new type of medicine based on empathy. He forms a group to establish an alternative social hospital. Communication varies from functional with friends to dysfunctional with authority figures. In key scenes, Adams uses unorthodox tactics such as play to help patients.

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Practical work:

Analysis of the movie Patch Adams


In the course of the film, we observe, regarding framing, that it
it takes place in a therapeutic setting, depending on the
spatiotemporal location of the film; a hospital, the medical school, or
the cabin hospital.
The roles are well defined, P. Adams is a provocateur (breaking the
hospital residents' rules); curator-injured (when dealing with
terminally ill patients), scapegoat (when they are blamed for everything),
leader (creating a new type of social medicine), saboteur (when
intends to achieve its goals by pressuring other students to break the
pre-established rules

He has, throughout the entire film, a psychological attitude of a protagonist;


making an effort and collaborating with everyone else. He is collaborative and
entrepreneur.
Regarding the group, an operational group is finally formed, having
As an assignment, the social hospital project in the cabin.

Regarding communication, all functional stages are gone through.


(for example, with his group of friends) and dysfunctional (like the one that
meeting with the psychiatrist in the first part of the movie.

Indifferent psychologist scene:


In this scene, a dysfunctional communication is mainly noticeable between
Patch Adams is in search of resolving his conflicts,
while the psychologist shows great concern for his coffee...
The framing is located in an office where it is supposed to help.
the people.

Bathroom scene – fight with squirrels


Here we observe the curator-wounded function.
Communication is from child to child, establishing a game between the two.
with the sole purpose of allowing the patient to go to the bathroom without fear of the squirrels.

Scene of the plea in the faculty hall


In this scene, P.A. gives his final presentation. From an adult's perspective,
I try to explain why I believe he/she deserves the doctoral diploma...
wanted to expel for his unorthodox methods...)
The framing is set in a courtroom, where there are judges, court,
accuser and public. Their position as a wounded curator always emerges; although
provocative, transgressive, and at times conciliatory.
Search through transgression, frame everything in a system of 'helping
to the other.

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