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Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Fatal Attraction, Borderline, and Stalkers

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Was the movie Fatal Attraction a good depiction of borderline personality disorder? Was it an accurate portrayal of stalking? Dr. Kirk talks with Berto and Collin about the movie and its implications.


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0:00.0

Hey Deservianirveian listeners, so recently Colin emailed me and said,

0:04.4

hey, we got to do a podcast together and I was like, yeah, what do you want to do?

0:07.6

And he threw out all these various ideas.

0:09.6

There was probably like 112 ideas that he emailed me.

0:14.2

But one of the ideas deep in the list

0:16.7

was to watch Fatal Attraction again.

0:20.2

So I took him up on the offer,

0:22.4

and upon watching it, I was surprised at how much material it would provide us to be able to talk about various things.

0:30.0

Movies in the 80s, the movie itself, Glenn Close, Michael Douglas, borderline personality

0:36.7

disorder, stalking.

0:38.7

So in this episode, I want to actually provide a trigger warning because we're going to be talking

0:42.4

about stalking and violence. I looked to actually some of you out there

0:42.6

talking about stalking and violence.

0:44.4

I looked into the research on stalking and I know actually some of you out there

0:49.8

have told me that you have been or are currently being stocked.

0:54.1

So I want to raise awareness for stalking because this movie depicts a stalking incident.

1:01.2

And but I don't want to hurt anyone in the process.

1:04.4

So just be careful when you listen to this.

1:06.8

We're not going to talk about super explicit behavior,

1:09.7

but I could imagine it being being triggering.

1:12.8

So Colin, why did you put this on the list of 112 ideas

1:17.7

for us to do a podcast about?

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