Patch Adams

Patch Adams

The focus of the movie was to objectively look upon personality, more so at extravert and introvert personalities; patch being a very extravert, to his surrounding fellow doctoral students and professors who are severely introverted. With this in mind, it has a very uplifting message and that is no matter what happens in your life, do not let it discourage you or lead you away from who you are and what you love. Also with personality, Patch believed that medicine alone could not always help, so instead of treating the illness, you need to treat the patient, and with the use of laughter he treated the persons soul as well as their ailments.

Patch exhibits 4 of the 5 super ordinate factors of the Big 5 model. He has Extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. With the Extraversion he has the following facets: warmth, gregariousness, assertiveness, activity, excitement seeking, and positive emotion. With the openness to experience he has the following 6 facets: fantasy, aesthetics, feelings, actions, ideas and values. With the agreeableness he only has five of the six facets: trust, straightforwardness, altruism, modesty and tender mindedness. With Conscientiousness he posses the following facets: achievement striving, competence, and deliberation. His personality would be described as a unique, competent, intelligent, warm goofball, who seeks positive emotion from others and gives it back three fold. His values are top notch, while he is also very modest.

Therapy according to patch would be to treat the person's soul, as well as their sickness or ailments. Not only would it be a fun place to be, it would be a place where people could feel good about getting better, or make peace with dying. Those people would have the support of others and they would come out as better people. The doctor would order the following for every