National Advocacy Dinners… or NADS.  You’ve probably seen people talking about them online. Hashtag APTAnad Well, the team at PT Pintcast knew a LITTLE bit about what NAD’s were… I mean, the word advocacy is in the title, and then there’s the word DINNER! Who doesn’t like dinner?! …. But we wanted to look a little deeper at the ingredients that make up these events and see how they’re cooked, just before this year’s event.  Which will be served this Saturday May 9th at 7pm eastern.  https://www.facebook.com/APTAStudents/ https://www.apta.org/AdvocacyDinner/

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What’s on the menu at the National Advocacy Dinner?

Silent Bob first appeared in the Kevin Smith movie Clerks. The character is also played by Kevin Smith himself. Silent Bob along with his partner in crime Jay have appeared in several mediums including almost all of Kevin Smith's movies, including Clerks, MallRats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, and Jay and Silent Bob's own feature film Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back. Kevin Smith just announced that he will be directing a new jay and silent bob movie The times when he does talk he does have a great deal of wisdom. He helps the main characters in two movies help resolve a problem that they are conflicted with. In chasing Amy it is lack of sexual experience and in clerks his words help to redefine a relationship. He also has a great deal of knowledge which he shows when he discusses likeness rights in Jay and Silent bob strike back Silent Bob struggles with Selective mutism. It is difficult to determine if it reaches the level of a disorder because the movies don’t depict if it has a negative impact on his life. Though he chooses not to talk he is still able to develop relationships with others (jay and it sounds like he has had relationships in the past (Amy)) It has not been determined if there is a singular cause is for selective mutism but it often depends on the individual. When I view silent Bob I think that his choice to not talk may come from anxiety and possibly difficulty managing extreme strong emotions.   Anger- In watching the films I do wonder if anger plays a role on Silent Bob’s selective mutism. I wonder if he experiences such strong emotions of anger that he does not know what to do with. From the movies it is eluded to that silent Bob is the enforcer of the jay and silent bob dyad. IN mallrats he takes down two security guards by squeezing their necks. IN dogma he throws that two angels out off of the train and in Jay and silent bob strike back there is montage scene where they go around and beat people up for saying bad things about them on the internet. There are other scene throughout the movies that suggest that if people don’t pay Jay silent bob will take care of them. I began to wonder if silent bob realizes how strong he is and that scares him. He seems to want to come off as this nice loving (wants to keep the monkey) but inside he feels as though he is just an angry person. Evidence from the movie suggests that he can possibly have a temper. I jay and silent bob he gets extremely angry at Jay when jay doesn’t understand his sign Language. He also gets upset in the chasing Amy story and says that he is out for blood. He may worry that if he talks he may say something hurtful and push others away which is not his intention. To help deal with some of that anger Silent Bob may use the defense of primitative withdrawal. He may use weed as a way to manage those strong feeling states   SELF-ESTEEM In viewing silent bob I wonder how much Self-esteem is connected to his selective mutism. He seems to vacillate between moments of being self assured and then moments of not feeling “good enough” The dinner scene in chasing amy seems to be the first time that he actually stands up to Jay. At one point saying “do something,” to him which Jay quickly backs down from. He then begins to tell the story of amy which is a girl that he was in love with and lost. The reason that he said he said that he became so angry with her is because that he felt small and he was not good enough. There is evidence to suggest that silent bob’s self-esteem may get in the way of him living a life outside of his relationship with Jay. In Jay and silent bob strike back there is scene where ben Affleck is talking about Jay and silent Bob wanting more in their lives. He singularly points out Silent Bob specifically and says “ I know this poor hapless bastard does. I look into his eyes and I see a may screaming out when lord when is it gonna be my time. As Affleck is saying his dialogue you can slowly see silent bob’s fac...

Silent Bob

Alexandra "Alex" Forrest is the main antagonist in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction. Fatal Attraction is a 1987 American psychological thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne and written by James Dearden. It is based on Dearden's 1980 short film Diversion Alex Forrest is played by Glenn Close who is the scariest one night stand / creepy ex that ever lived. A roll in the sheets leads to a boiled bunny, kidnapping and straight up assault and murder! Discussion of personality organization Neurotic- borderline- psychotic Discussion of delusional thinking What is a delusion- A fixed belief that is not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence. Their content may include a variety of different themes Erotomanic delusion- When an individuals believes falsely that another person is in love with them. What defenses is she using? Acting out What could have led to the development of Alex? Could have been the trauma of losing her father when she was 7 years old. Sounds like it could have been sudden since it was a heart attack. With him dying so earlier it could have had a negative impact on her ability to make meaningful connections with men. It may have also planted the seed in her head that people leave. Death can be a form of abandonment and anytime that she gets abandoned by a man in relationships it may bring about the strong feelings that they 7-year-old girl experienced What was going on in the scene where she cuts her wrists? At that moment it is more of a culmination of events that leads her to cutting her wrists. In this passionate love affair, Dan knows that it is a one-time thing but Alex is not privy to that information. She may believe that this is the beginning of a great relationship. It seems that they are sexually compatible they have the same interests (opera), they seem to have an understanding of each other's job, she gets along with his dog. So at the dinner table she asks him where she stand in the relationship and he essentially tells her it was a one night thing. The strange thing is that he sleeps with her again. Which was probably very confusing. Then she gets angry again when he says that he is leaving an she tells him “id have more respect for you if you told me to fuck off.” That moment seems to be the abandonment depression creeping up and she becomes angry yelling at him. When that doesn’t work she cuts her wrists possibly as a sign of I am in pain and I don’t know how to deal with it. Or it could be the emotional pain is so strong and I would rather feel physical pain than emotional pain. Or it could be her last ditch effort to get him to stay. Either way it works and he stays the night. To her that show that he cares and that is when the infatuation begins. That is the best thing that she can think of to not deal with the pain that she is feeling. Why does her behavior begin to escalate if she wants him back? Her behavior may begin to escalate either out of anger or because she has seen that it worked in the past. After she cut her wrists her stayed and she ended up getting what she wanted. There may be a piece of her that believes that if she engages in these grand gestures of showing up at it work, calling multiple times that he may come back to her. Or possibly she may be able to guilt him into a relationship. Why did the Bunny have to die? The bunny seems to represent the first time that the reality of him having a wife, child and family hits Alex. Until that point Alex has met the wife and talked with her but she never really made the connection with family. The bunny may represent to her the family and happiness and that crushes her fantasy of her being with Dan. So to eliminate the happiness the bunny needs to die. She does not have a specific grudge against the bunny but the bunny does represent to her the family and its happiness. Why would she kidnap the girl? It is amazing how much things have changed over the course of the last 30 years.

Alex Forrest from Fatal Attraction

Luke Skywalker

We took everyone's favorite villain and put him on the couch with Dr. Jamie Hagenbaugh.

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What if you took your favorite movie characters, popped open their brains and took a poke around inside their minds? Well... we do just that. We bring in a Doctor of Clinical Psychology (Dr. Jamie Hagenbaugh) and a wise-ass (Jimmy McKay) and take a good hard look inside the minds of the most prolific movie characters of all time! To see why they do, the things that they do so well. Welcome... to CinemaPsych!

Cinema Psych – Show Explainer

We look inside the minds of your favorite movie characters to see why they do, the things that they do.

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