The Psychology of Darth Vader

The Psychology of Darth Vader

http://www.livescience.com/10679-psychology-darth-vader-revealed.html

Psychiatrist Eric Bui says that Anakin Skywalker’s behavior in episodes two and three show traits of borderline personality disorder (BPD). There are nine criteria of borderline personality disorder, Skywalker met six and you only need to meet five to qualify as having the disorder. Anakin Skywalker shows that he is impulsive and that he has anger management issues, going back and forth between idolizing and hating the Jedi. Anakin also has abandonment issues, shown b his fear of losing his wife. Anakin has at least two dissociative episodes when he tries to distance himself from stressful events. The first dissociative episode is when Anakin murders a whole tribe of Tuskens when they killed his mother. Anakin’s second dissociative episode is when he goes on a killing spree through the young Jedi trainees. Also Anakin Skywalker has a huge identity crisis and joins the dark side, becoming Darth Vader. Anakin is a character that many teens can sympathize with because they have many of the same characteristics that are looked for when diagnosing BPD, which is why only adults can have BDP if teens could be diagnosed with it then most of them would be.

This can affect Star Wars fans everywhere, personally I now know a possible reason for why Anakin went psycho.