Analysis Of The Book The Ghost Of Alice By Alice Cooper

Kristen is a young troubled girl who is seen burning down a farmhouse with cuts and bruises all over her body. Upon the police officers arrival, they ask Kristen why she did it, yet she has no memory of what happened or why she was there in the first place. She is then taken to a mental institute where she befriends 4 girls that are on her ward. Over a few days, the girls tell Kristen about the ghost of Alice that they are all haunted by; Alice used to be a patient there at the institute. Kristen begins to discover the truth about Alice as her friends disappear one by one. Eventually we make it down to Kristen and one other patient who decide to try and escape but are soon caught and Kristen is put in a strait jacket. She somehow manages†¦show more content†¦Dissociative identity disorder, or better known as multiple personality disorder, is a severe form of dissociation where there is a lack of connection in a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity (WebMD, 2014). Usually people who suffer from multiple personalities have gone through some kind of trauma which causes them to be someone else in a way so that they can cope with these events. The person dissociates themselves from a situation or experience that’s too violent, traumatic, or painful to assimilate with his/her conscious self (WebMD, 2014). Related to the movie, Alice went through a severe traumatic event and tries to forget and block it out by creating Kristen and the 4 other girls on the ward. Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct and split identities or personality states that continually have power over the person’s behavior (WebMD, 2014). Each alternate personality has its own pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the self and the environment (Halter, 2014, p. 317). In the movie, each girl we meet that Alice has created is completely different from the other. Kristen is the leader who is strong and outgoing. The other girls range from Zoey who is shy and scared of the world who never talks much but must follow all of the rules, Emily is wild and fun but likes to follow others, Iris is timid and likes to stick to herself,