In Black Swan, a ballet dancer named Nina is casted to...

In Black Swan, a ballet dancer named Nina is casted to play both the White Swan and the Black Swan in the famous ballet titled Swan Lake. In the well-known opera, a princess is turned into a White Swan, who falls in love with a prince but then commits suicide when she finds out that the prince confessed his love to the Black Swan. In the movie Black Swan, Nina has to deal with the challenges that arise from trying to accurately portray both characters whom are completely opposite. It is easy for Nina to be the White Swan. She is innocent and controlled. However, it was very hard for her to become the dark, seductive, and mysterious Black Swan. To fully become this character, Nina has to deal with the struggles of becoming the opposite of†¦show more content†¦Besides schizophrenia, Nina could also be diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Some of the causes of this disorder include repetitive physical, sexual, or emotional abuse in childhood. Dissociative identity dis order is characterized by two or more distinct personalities or identities. This was apparent in Nina because it seems as if there were two different parts of her. Nina fits very well under the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder; however, it does not take in account her paranoid delusions. Therefore, I believe that schizophrenia is a more fitting diagnosis for Nina. The diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia describes how genetic and environmental factors work together to cause the onset of schizophrenia. An inherited vulnerability is a major factor in a person being diagnosed as having schizophrenia. A person’s risk of having schizophrenia increases with genetic relatedness. There are even studies that have been done that shows that most identical schizophrenic twins end up having offspring who develop schizophrenia later on in life. There is also numerous brain abnormalities found in schizophrenia. For example, people with schizophrenia tend to have enlarged crani al ventricles, a decreased cerebral size, and reduced tissue volume. The abnormalities found in the different parts of the brain correlate with