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Additional discussion questions:.

Continued from the Learning Guide…

1. What do you think Will Hunting’s life would have been like if the therapy had not been successful?

Suggested Response:

There is no one correct response. Here are a few good ones: (1) He would have continued his life with his attachment disorder, being able to make friendships only with males his own age. He would not have been able to have a loving relationship with a woman. He would have continued to have anger management issues and at some point, most likely, he would have killed or severely injured someone and gone to jail for decades or for life. He would have continued to believe, deep down, that the abuse was his fault, even though he might intellectually have known that it wasn’t. He would have continued to use reading and his intelligence to give him a sense of mastery and control to insulate himself from people and put them off. (2) He is such a strong person and is surrounded by so many loving people, his male friends, his girlfriend, that if he could have maintained these relationships, he would have found the inner strength to heal himself.

2. The actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote the script for this movie. Are they trying to say that the highest and best achievement of a man is to “go see about a girl”, to have an empathetic loving relationship with a woman?

No. They are trying to say that an empathetic loving relationship with a woman is one of the highest and best achievements of a man. There are others, like being a good psychologist, a good mathematician, a good auto mechanic, or, like Chuckie, a good friend. Another way to put the answer is that they are saying that at that time in Will’s life, an empathetic and loving relationship with a woman was something he needed to explore.

QUESTIONS RELATING TO ATTACHMENT DISORDER

3. Describe attachment disorder and how it starts.

The basic concept is that if a child’s needs are not consistently satisfied by the adults on whom he or she depends, or if the child is abused by his or her caregivers, the child will not learn to trust others. See generally, Attachment Theory Applied to “Good Will Hunting”.

4. If the adults that a child must rely upon don’t take care of the child or if they beat the child and violate the child’s boundaries, what message does that send to the child?

It tells the child that he or she is not worth caring for and that others cannot be trusted. It teaches the child that only the child him or herself can be relied upon to satisfy the child’s needs. It does not permit the child to develop a sense of self-worth. The child, focused on meeting his or her own needs, cannot acquire the ability to feel empathy for others on a very basic level.

5. What is “affective attunement” and how does it relate to a child learning to manage primitive emotions?

Affective attunement occurs when a caregiver lets an infant know that the caregiver understands the emotion being experienced by the child. Once attachment is securely established, the role of the primary caregiver focuses on helping the infant learn to identify and become comfortable with its own various feelings. The primitive emotions felt by infants are often raw and powerful. They can frighten and overwhelm a baby. Caregivers mirror (i.e. reflect back) the feelings the infant projects and label them with words. This enables the child to make connections between its internal and external worlds. When the infant learns that the caregivers can understand the infant’s emotions, the infant’s fears and anxieties will be alleviated and the caregiver can teach the infant techniques for managing its emotions. (This process continues through adolescence.)

6. What were some of the symptoms of attachment disorder from which Will Hunting suffered at the beginning of the film?

Will has trouble developing meaningful and appropriate relationships with adults and women. His only friends are among a group of young men his own age who cannot begin to compete with his intelligence. He cannot master his primitive emotions. For example, if he has a disagreement with someone or if he dislikes them, he will assault them either verbally or physically. He has no empathy for people outside his close group of friends. Will does not integrate his intelligence and his interest in reading with relationships, either personal relationships or work relationships. The reading gives him a sense of mastery and a way to distance himself from people. He uses intellectual tasks to self-soothe.

7. How was Will different at the end of the movie from the way he was at the beginning?

Sean had provided Will with a secure attachment relationship. Will could attempt to form relationships and felt sure enough of himself to leave Boston to follow Skylar to Stanford.

8. What does Sean McGuire, the therapist, try to do in the treatment?

He re-parents Will. Sean tries to fill in the gaps of Will’s development caused by the abuse and the lack of caring. He provides Will with a secure attachment and with an oral history of relationships that worked by recounting his own. Sean told Will about life’s imperfections and that imperfect people could be loved. (Will thought of himself as profoundly imperfect and unlovable. Why else would his caregivers hit him?) Sean talked to Will about what sacrifice means, like a father to a son. Sean hugged Will, giving him the tactile sense of belonging that a child would get from a parent.

9. What is the difference between the usual situation in which an individual seeks psychotherapy and the situation faced by Sean McGuire when Will Hunting was brought to him?

Will Hunting didn’t want to change — usually, someone coming to therapy wants to change.

10. Sean asks Will to list the people he feels that he has real relationships with. What does Will answer, and how does this relate to attachment disorder?

Will lists several dead giants of Western culture like Shakespeare and Nietzsche. They are dead and cannot betray Will or make him aware of his own feelings of inadequacy.

11. There are parallel things happening in Will’s relationship with the therapist and in his relationship with Skylar. What are they?

Will is learning to trust both of them, alternatively moving closer and pushing them away; two steps forward and one step back.

12. What did reading and mastering subjects mean for Will psychologically? Why didn’t he use his gifts to find friends or in a competitive academic setting?

Will undoubtedly loved to read and learn. But by limiting his friendships to boys who could not compete with him in intelligence and whose interests didn’t run to books, he used his intelligence and reading as a way of isolating himself and pushing people away. Had Will been a secure human being, he would have gravitated toward people with whom he could share his learning and his interests. Will certainly could have gotten a full scholarship to some of the best schools in the country, but moving into the world in which others could understand what he understood and had read the books that he had read would be too threatening for him.

13. A psychologist with whom we discussed this movie stated that Sean McGuire, in his treatment of Will Hunting, worked a lot in the transference. What did she mean by this?

Sean used transference to fill in the gaps in Will’s attachment. Transference is a phenomenon in which patients subconsciously transfer to their therapist the feelings and attitudes that they originally linked with significant figures in their early lives. Sean, in effect, re-parented Will and became the loving caregiver that Will never had.

14. Why do people with attachment disorder have difficulty developing a conscience?

They rely only on themselves to meet their needs. Not needing others, they have no regard for the needs or feelings of others. It is not just selfishness, it is the way they see the world. They see others as being like themselves, only out for number one. They think that this is the way the world is set up.

15. What part of the therapy process is left out of this movie?

The many months and years of hard work in the therapy sessions; the advances, the regressions, the regrouping and, hopefully, further advances.

16. What was going on when Sean got angry at Will, held him up against the wall, and told Will that if he disrespected Sean’s wife again Sean would beat him up?

Sean lost his sense of boundary with Will. It was a mistake. Sean put it to good use but he shouldn’t have done it.

17. Why couldn’t Will, before his breakthrough, tell Skylar that he loved her?

People with attachment disorder are afraid of intimacy because their caregivers, their first intimates, hurt them. Actually, the fact that Will felt he couldn’t lie to her was a step forward.

18. Why did Will feel no sense of gratitude to Professor Lambeau and take such delight in hurting Lambeau’s feelings? There are two independent reasons. There are two independent reasons.

First, there is the class angle. Will had grown up a world apart from and jealous of the intellectuals of the universities. Lambeau was one of these people. The second reason relates to Will’s attachment disorder. Lambeau was trying to be a mentor to Will. Most people who had been in a fatherly or parental role for Will had hurt him badly. Until his therapy took hold, Will would push these people away as a matter of self-protection. Will felt no sense of gratitude to Lambeau because he didn’t credit Lambeau with good motives for helping him. Unable to give and unable, on a deep emotional level, to conceive of a relationship based on delight in giving, Will could not accept the fact that Lambeau had good motives.

19. How did the scene of the fight relate to Will’s attachment disorder? Why does Will have to be pulled off the man who used to beat him up in kindergarten?

Will was consumed with anger. This is a primitive feeling that he couldn’t control. Not having been properly parented, he didn’t learn how to manage his emotions.

QUESTIONS RELATING TO OTHER ASPECTS OF THE MOVIE

20. What did you think of Professor Lambeau? Discuss his positive and negative characteristics.

[This question can lead to a spirited discussion.] The movie’s view of Lambeau is that he was somewhat selfish and didn’t take into account that Will might be happy doing something other than advanced math. It is clear that Lambeau had his own agenda, which was to make Will into another Ramanujan. [See Links to the Internet for more on Ramanujan.] This would have been a great contribution to mathematics and certainly Lambeau would have gained immense satisfaction and professional accolades for having found Will and mentored him. And, in fact, advances in theoretical mathematics are a good thing. Eventually, those discoveries will help society. Sean’s problem with Lambeau was that Lambeau was not sensitive to the other aspects of Will’s life and personality. Some students will blindly accept the movie’s view of Lambeau as a near villain based primarily on a narrow reading of the class critique of the film. Challenging this view can lead to spirited discussions.

21. The disadvantages and bad luck that Will has in life are obvious. What are some of the advantages that he possesses or fortunate events which occur to him in the movie?

They include his intelligence; his friend Chuckie; the interest of Professor Lambeau; a legal system that was flexible enough to allow him one more chance on the condition of therapy; having Sean as a therapist; and meeting Skylar.

22. Was Professor Lambeau trying to manipulate Will or to help him?

Lambeau was trying to help Will to become what Lambeau had always wanted to be, a great mathematician. Lambeau was willing to manipulate Will in order to do that. (Sometimes you have to manipulate people in a nurturing way in order to help them.) However, Lambeau wasn’t considering what would be best for Will, the whole person. It is very hard for people to get beyond their own perspectives. That is one of the reasons that Chuckie was such an extraordinary character.

The following three questions should be asked together.

23. What role does social class play in the movie? Which social classes are we talking about?

The class conflict was working class vs. educated elite which is also sometimes described as town vs. gown. This conflict was essential to the plot and set up several conflicts that had to be resolved: Will vs. his therapists, Will and his friends vs. students, Will vs. Skylar, Will vs. Lambeau, Sean vs. Lambeau. See Class Critique section of the Learning Guide to this film.

24. One person is a bridge between the two socioeconomic classes shown in the film. Who is he?

Sean. After his treatment, Will Hunting will also be able to move in both worlds.

25. Is discrimination against a person because of the socioeconomic class they belong to any less destructive than racial discrimination?

There is no one answer to the question. The point is that they are both very destructive to self-esteem and pervert the cultures of both the oppressor and the oppressed.

26. Evaluate the character of Lambeau’s assistant, Tom.

He seems to be a caring, mature, adult who accepts his demotion from being Lambeau’s favored student to being the coffee boy with good grace and without losing his affection for Lambeau. He even tries to intervene with Will to get Will to treat Lambeau better. Will, the child with attachment disorder, is not willing to go out of his way for anyone except his peer family of friends.

27. Why is the character of Will Hunting portrayed as being brilliant? Even people who aren’t particularly smart have an attachment disorder.

One reason is that it drives the plot. Will’s mathematical genius attracts Professor Lambeau, who gets him out of jail and to the therapist. However, Will could have been a great violinist or artist or even Lambeau’s nephew with no particular talents. A plot could have been constructed without intelligence being Will’s gift. The better answer is that it shows that intelligence, even great intelligence such as Will Hunting’s, cannot break through psychological illness based on childhood trauma.

28. Will Hunting was able to look at Sean’s picture and describe Sean’s character with enough accuracy to really upset Sean. Will was able to do this because of two reasons. One was because Will was so smart. What was the second one?

The picture was not only a window into Sean’s emotional state, but it showed what Will was experiencing as well.

Additional Assignments

Write an extension of the story describing what happened to Will and Skylar in their first year in California.

Write a new ending for the story assuming that Will had not gotten treatment; what would have happened to him?

Write an extension of the story describing a reunion between Chuckie and Will, 20 years later.

Write a scene (not necessarily derived from this movie) which highlights class conflict.

See additional Assignments for use with any Film that is a Work of Fiction .

Good Will Hunting Questions

Bring on the tough stuff. there’s not just one right answer..

• What do you think is the biggest obstacle in Will's life? Why?
• What lessons does Sean Maguire learn from Will? How does he act on these lessons?
• How does Gerald Lambeau develop as a character in this movie? Does he change at all? Why or why not?
• Do Will's Southie friends understand how gifted he is? If so, how do we know this?
• How does Chuckie respond when he realizes Will wants to work construction for the rest of his life? Is his response fair? Why or why not?
• Briefly describe Sean Maguire's relationship with Professor Lambeau. Are they friends, enemies, or frenemies?
• Where does Will go at the end of the movie? What does it tells us about his personal growth?
• What is the biggest lesson Will needs to learn if he's going to live a fulfilling life? Do you think he learns it?
• How do you think things will end up for Will and Skylar? Why?

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Good Will Hunting: Analysis Through Psychoanalytical Theories

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Good Will Hunting

Updated 24 November 2023

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In our normal day-to-day lives, we encounter a number of obstacles as we try to pursue and achieve our goals. In the movie, Good Will Hunting, the main characters encounter different kinds of obstacles in the pursuit of their gifts, most of which they manage to address in different ways as discussed in this essay.

            Will Hunting, the main figure in the movie is highly gifted with a genius-level intelligence, an intuitive ability to solve complex mathematical theorems. Will Hunting’s troubles trace back to his unhappy and abused childhood, which he blames himself for and ends up sabotaging his professional and emotional life. In his quest to have a steady job or romantic relationship, Will Hunting encounters an obstacle as a result of his adept nature of anticipating future failures in his personal and romantic relationships, something which makes him avoid or end them instantly.

            Sean Maguire, Will’s psychologist and a victim of child abuse, also faces a kind of emotional obstacle as a result of the guilt and suppressed feelings emanating from the premature death of his wife, something which makes him unable to consider another romantic relationship. Talking about this makes Sean boil with anger to a point where he threatens to end Will’s recovery process.

            The doctor-patient relationship between Sean and Will kick starts the psychological process of overcoming these obstacles. Sean’s story of how he met his wife encourages Will to try out a serious relationship with Skylar. On the other hand, Will challenges Sean to objectively look at himself and his life. Furthermore, the furious quarrel between Lambeau and Sean as well as Chuckie’s honest but brutal opinion encourages Will to see things differently. The therapy sessions finally manage to ease Will’s resentment and convince him to take control of his own life after which he leaves to go find Skylar for a serious romantic relationship. Sean, on the other hand, also leaves to go travel around the world.

            Some of the obstacles I think I might face in pursuing my own gifts include being too picky and failing to address my insecurities. I may address these obstacles by speaking to professionals, coming up with resolutions, and being very resilient in a bid to achieve my goal.

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Wisdom beyond knowledge: Lessons from Good Will Hunting

The acquisition of knowledge requires voluminous reading, steady listening, and earnest learning. Wisdom, on the other hand, requires all of this and much more.

May 14, 2024 Tod Worner The Dispatch 4 Print

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T.S. Eliot, Choruses from “The Rock”

“You like apples?” Will asked through the bar’s plate glass window with a sardonic smile on his face.

“Yeah,” answered the sheepish, pony-tailed, oxford-and-sweatered Harvard student.

“Well, I got her number,” smashing the napkin with a girl’s name and number against the window. “How do you like them apples?”

Anyone who had a pulse during the 1990s remembers when Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon), a troubled savant from Southie, verbally slapped the cocky Harvard student with this immortalized line. As the story in  Good Will Hunting  goes, the Harvard student pulled intellectual and class rank on Hunting’s poor friend Chuckie Sullivan (played by Ben Affleck) as Chuckie flirted with a Harvard co-ed. The obnoxious student peppered Chuckie with questions out of his Harvard history and political science books for wicked sport. That’s when Will Hunting defended his friend revealing how the Harvard student was a fraud lifting passages from books for the sake of sounding smart—books, incidentally, that Hunting had read and remembered more keenly and to greater effect than the student. The scene culminating in “How do you like them apples?” was something deliciously worthy of Clint Eastwood in a  Dirty Harry  movie.

We are so impressed with knowledge. Legitimately or not, the Harvard student—merely because he was accepted to Harvard and, presumably, thriving—inspires a certain admiration for his intellectual wattage. Simultaneously, Will Hunting’s cool knowledge—a mastery of facts acquired from relentless reading—engenders awe. His facility with raw information in rebutting this bully is something to behold. But if we watch  Good Will Hunting  in its entirety, we soon realize that knowledge isn’t all.

Sean Maguire (played by Robin Williams), a seemingly washed-up community college professor of psychology, is charged with corralling the young and unbridled Will before he self-destructs. Perspicacious and fundamentally invested, Sean sees through Will’s complex defense mechanisms. Will uses his knowledge—his genius—to attack others and shield himself from pain. After Will lashes out at Sean, they meet on a park bench the next day. Sean calmly, but emphatically upbraids Will for his shallowness, his love of knowledge at the expense of wisdom.

If I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. . .Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the Pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. I’ve seen that. If I asked you about women, you’d probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. . . .But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You’re a tough kid. If I asked you about war, you’d probably throw Shakespeare at me, right? “Once more into the breach, dear friends.” But you’ve never been near one. You’ve never held your best friend’s head in your lap and watched him gasp his last breath, looking to you for help. If I asked you about love you’d probably quote me a sonnet, but you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone who could level you with her eyes. Feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you, who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel. To have that love for her be there forever. Through anything, through cancer. You wouldn’t know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms visiting hours don’t apply to you. You don’t know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you and I don’t see an intelligent, confident man: I see a cocky, [scared] kid. But you’re a genius, Will; no one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine. You ripped my [—] life apart. You’re an orphan, right? Do you think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don’t give a [—] about all that, because you know what? I can’t learn anything from you I can’t read in some [—] book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. Then I’m fascinated. I’m in. But you don’t wanna do that, do you, sport? You’re terrified about what you might say. Your move, Chief.

Will is knowledgeable. But Sean is wise.

Compared to wisdom, knowledge is easy. To be sure, the acquisition of knowledge requires voluminous reading, steady listening, and earnest learning. Wisdom, on the other hand, requires all of this and much more. Wisdom requires patience and humility, discernment and decision, feeling and growing, experiencing and navigating. It requires putting knowledge into action—action that has real-life consequences beyond a grade on a paper or the buzz of affirmation. It isn’t simply dropping a fact as in a game of Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuit. It involves living by right reason and enduring the consequences of such a life. Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, and Bilbo Baggins all chafed against the tempering tutelage of their wiser mentors. “I know! I know!,” they insist. “Yes. I know you  know, ” Obi-wan, Dumbledore, and Gandalf answer their apprentices, “but you don’t yet  understand .” You are smart, but not wise.

In a 2003 interview, Joseph Epstein told a story that illustrates the difference between knowledge and wisdom,

I have a cousin who died recently. A guy named Sherwin Rosen, who I loved, really. He was the chairman of the Economics Department at Chicago and at a memorial dinner for him this man Gary Becker who won a Nobel Prize in Economics said, “You know when Sherwin was a graduate student here we almost canned him because he was slow in response. If you asked Sherwin a question, he would say, ‘Gee, I am not certain,’ and then he would come back a month later. He brooded on these things. But he saw aspects in the question none of us did. Becker said being fast in response is one of the things we look for in good students. But it’s a mistake.”

Wisdom is humble enough to know that knowledge is not enough. Knowledge is an ingredient of wisdom—necessary, but not sufficient. As Rainer Maria Rilke once advised a young, inexperienced poet, “Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Robert Caro, the famed biographer of Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson, declared, “Truth takes time.” Put another way, wisdom is knowledge that pauses, prays, and looks both ways before walking on.

To be sure, Will Hunting is a fascinating figure—a genius. But  Good Will Hunting  is not a story of a genius; it is the story of a genius finding his way to wisdom with the help of a mentor. Wisdom beyond knowledge.

Now that’s a tale worth telling.

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One of the best essays I’ve read on this site. It ought to be required reading for all entering freshmen at colleges everywhere.

This is a fine piece and it gives me the opportunity to praise the late Robin Williams – the actor, not the comedian.

Is there anyone else who could have played Sean Maguire as well as Robin? No – he nailed that character and to me it is impossible even to imagine anyone else in that role, and in the other roles I will mention.

FYI – My memory does me a disservice these days, so I beg your indulgence while I ramble – His character in ‘August Rush’, his character in ‘One Hour Photo’, his character in the movie about the man whose wife had been killed, with the immortal line “I’ve got a (expletive) the size of Florida.” Is there anyone else who could have played those parts? Methinks not. Not to mention that he more than held his own in films opposite Robert de Niro and Al Pacino.

We lost a gentle, tortured genius on that sad day when he took his life lo these many years ago.

Worner does a good job in distinguishing knowledge from understanding its essence and value, which requires wisdom.

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Hunting has a long history. Many scientists agree that it was the thing that influenced human evolution. Early humans started making and using stone tools to make hunting more effective. This activity was long critical for people’s survival and still remains critical in some places of the world. However, in developed countries it is now used mostly for recreation.

In a hunting essay, you might want to focus on the reasons why hunting is good or bad for the environment. One more idea is to discuss if hunting should be allowed. Another controversial topic is the ethical aspects of this activity. Finally, you can collect hunting safety tips.

If you are looking for hunting essay topics, you’re in the right place. In this article, you’ll find great hunting topics to research, paper titles, and hunting essay examples for your inspiration.

• Human Behavior and Psychology in “The Good Will Hunting” by Gus Van Sant The second important person with him is his best friend Chukie, who he tells that he would love to be a laborer for the rest of his life.
• Hunting and Gathering Agricultural practices were implemented 10,000 years ago, and it has since played a vital role in the replacement of hunting and the gathering as a way of livelihood. In ancient times, hunting was seen as […]
• Ken Liu’s “Good Hunting” and The Perfect Match This essay aims to explore the elements of defamiliarization that are evident in the two works and to summarize the points to show how the use of this technique differs in the stories.
• What Theory or Theories of Counseling are Observed in the Film Good Will Hunting? It is crucial to state that there are too many therapists who refused to work with Will Hunting because of a number of reasons, the main of which was the character’s contempt to them.
• History of Hunting: Evolution and Improvement Contrary to the modern trend of hunting being more of a sport, during the pre-civilization era hunting was one of the main means of survival.
• Hunting, Death, and Free Will: “No Country for Old Men” by the Coen Brothers From the beginning, the directors of the film warn the viewer that the movie is about at least two things: hunting and death.
• The Change of Canadian Indigenous Hunting History Despite the advancement of this source of livelihood, the need to regulate the utilization of natural resources, replenish the food supply, and maintain the land formed a critical part of the Indigenous peoples’ practices.
• “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: The Bedroom and Hunting Scenes Consequently, from this point on, the narrative splits into two parallel lines that show the reader the perspective of the lord and Gawain throughout the day.
• Hunting Netiquette Violations This is a message attached to people’s mails without their consent. An example of this violation is a word-for-word plagiarism.
• Licensing of Hunting in the United States The positive effects linked with the exercise include the revenue it generates for the economy through the sale of animal products and the reintroduction of game species that were previously phased out by poaching activities.
• Allowing Licensing of Hunting in the United States The statistics and view on the partial data are essential to verify and defend other information from other researches in the study about the nature and extent of hunting alongside the journey on hunting in […]
• The Impacts of Hunting Prohibitions on People This paper highlights the article’s credibility by proving that the authors carried out research and shows its usefulness to readers and policymakers through various cases on the impacts of hunting prohibitions among the communities.
• The Problem of the Whale Hunting It should be noted that ordinary citizens can participate actively in the reduction and subsequent elimination of this trade. This way, control and a sense of direction are instilled in the whaling society.
• Ethical Aspect of Hunting: Dilemma of Hunting Ethics This paper illustrates the ethical aspects of hunting on the basis of human as the hunter versus animals as the hunted.
• The Wild Boar Hunting Experience Not the most pleasant experience in the world, rubbing mud and whatever other kind of natural goo I could find in various strategic spots on my body, but I did the best I could and […]
• Hunting in Wildlife Refuges in California In addition, the lack of regulations and the prohibition of hunting in wildlife refuges in its entirety has led to the overpopulation of certain species and the introduction of imbalance to the ecosystem, with the […]
• Environmental Issue: Hunting on Whales The case study at hand presents an environmental issue involving the Makah tribe that had hunted whales over two thousand years until the 1920s when this practice had to be discontinued due to the decline […]
• Church Role in Witch Hunting Despite the fact that a lot of research has been done on the history of witch prosecution and the part of the Church in it, it is still debatable whether its power exceeded the influence […]
• Hunting, Its Moral and Environmental Issues The first fact refers to the idea that there is nothing more natural than hunting, and that is why it is normal.
• Hunting a Christmas Tree by Barbara Dean This story is an amazing combination of natural beauty, human pretentiousness, and despair that may spoil even the most beautiful events in a human life like Christmas.”Hunting a Christmas Tree” is Dean’s personal position on […]
• Gender Studies: Gathering and Hunting Abilities For instance, the hunting skills of men can be attributed to their being dominant in the arm simply because they have a better chance of hitting the target than women do because of their better […]
• Whaling in Japan: Justifiable by Culture? The gap in reasoning when it comes to utilizing the concept of “scientific research” as a means of justifying the hunting of various whale species by Japanese whalers is the obvious fact that you do […]
• No Excuse: Whale Hunting in Japan When examining the basis of the treaty established by the International Whaling Commission in relation to the protection of the whale species it can be seen that the entirety of the document was meant to […]
• The Growing Use of Firearms in Sports and Leisure Hunting Today
• The Hunting and Gathering Societies of The Kung, Shoshone, and Mbuti Tribes
• Prey Are Better Protected From Visually Hunting Predators
• Wildlife Valuation: The Collective Good Aspect of Hunting
• The Effects Of Hunting And Fishing On The Economy
• The Norwegian And Japanese Position On Permitting The Hunting
• The Negative Effects of Stopping Hunting and Trophy Hunting to the Animal Ecosystem
• Trophy Hunting and Its Benefits in Economic and Conservation Significance of the Trophy Hunting Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa
• The Kung, Shoshone, And Mbuti Tribes: Hunting And Gathering Societies
• The Benefits of Hunting for Food in Hunting, Climate Change and the Future of Food, an Article by Nick Romero
• The Deer Hunter: The Unintended Effects of Hunting Regulations
• Trophy Hunting : A Common Controversial Issue Among People
• Seal Hunting in Canada’s Coast Angered Animal Rights Activists
• The Symbiotic Lives of People in The Hunting Snake, a Poem by Judith Wright
• Traditional Hunting and Its Relevance to Eskimo Societies
• The Reactive Attachment Disorder of Will in Good Will Hunting, a Movie by Gus Van Sant
• The Role and Contributions of Hunting and the Issues Surrounding the Sport
• The Importance Of Hunting In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
• The Necessity of Legalizing Wolf Hunting in Wisconsin
• The Traits of the People of Hunting and Gathering Societies
• Types Of Hypoallergenic Hunting Dogs
• Why The Hunting Can It Affect The Surrounding Ecosystem
• The Economics of Hunting, Game-Preservation, and Their Legal Setting
• The Importance Of Pursuing Love Is No Different Than Hunting A Deer
• The Relationship of the Characters of Will and Skylar in the Movie Good Will Hunting
• The Intrigues of Hunting and Gathering Chimpanzees
• The Dangers and Inhumanity of Big Game Trophy Hunting
• The Effects of Mercury Contamination in Pheasants on the Value of Pheasant Hunting in Oregon
• Whaling: The Hunting Of Fin Whales In Antarctic Ocean
• Why Is Hunting Good For The Environment
• What Theory Or Theories Of Counseling Are Observed In The Film Good Will Hunting
• Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth Century New England
• The Controversy Surrounding the Bloody Sport of Fox Hunting
• Why Sport Hunting is Cruel and Unnecessary
• The Patriot Act: Hunting Terrorists or Civil Liberties
• The Hunting of People in The Most Dangerous Game, a Book by Richard Connell
• The Pros and Cons of Hunting and the Controversies Surrounding the Practice of Killing or Trapping Animals
• Witch Hunting And Branding : Rural Areas Of India
• Procreation, Fishing, and Hunting: Renewable Resources and Dynamic Planar Systems
• Valuing Characteristics Of Transferable Deer Hunting Permits In Kansas
• Social Sites: Virtual Playgrounds Or Predatory Hunting Grounds
• The Growing Importance and Value Implications of Recreational Hunting Leases to Agricultural Land Investors in America
• Shark Hunting: The Loss of an Apex Predator, and the Corruption of the Ocean Ecosystem
• The Economic Value of Lottery-rationed Recreational Hunting
• User Fees and Equity Issues in Public Hunting Expenditures: The Case of Ring-Necked Pheasant in Oregon
• The Impacts of Hunting and Gathering in the Paleolithic Period
• Whale Hunting and its Significance to the Makah Culture
• The Market Value of Ingress Rights for White-Tailed Deer Hunting in Texas
• Why Hunting Animals For Sport Shouldn’t Be Banned
• Promoting Successful Hunting and Fertility with Paleolithic Art
• How Has Hunting Changed Over the Last 100 Years?
• Why Is Animal Hunting Still Legal in Many Countries?
• What State Has the Best Hunting Laws?
• Do LED Flashlights Make Hunting Easier?
• What Are the Differences Between Hunting and Fishing?
• Will All Hunting Be Illegal in the Future?
• Is Hunting an Ethical Way to Eat?
• Why Should Fox Hunting Be Banned?
• What Damage Is Big Game Hunting Doing in Africa?
• How Can Trophy Hunting Help Many Endangered Species?
• What Would Happen if Hunting Was Not Banned in India?
• Is Hunting Good or Bad for the Environment?
• Why Is Fox Hunting Illegal in England?
• How Is Hunting in America Different Than Any Other Country in the World?
• Why Do People Get a Thrill From Hunting and Killing Animals?
• Is Sport Hunting a Breakthrough Wildlife Conservation Strategy for Africa?
• What Is the Punishment for Hunting in India?
• Should Trophy Hunting Be Banned, as It Is Just Cruelty for Entertainment?
• What Is the Best Argument for Hunting?
• Why Did Humans Begin Hunting?
• How Long Has Hunting Been Around?
• What Country in Europe Has the Best Hunting?
• How Big Is the Hunting Industry in the US?
• What Effect Does Overhunting Have on the Environment?
• How Does Subsistence Hunting Work in Alaska?
• What Are the Problems of Hunting in the US?
• Which State Has the Most Public Hunting Land in the United States?
• Should Hunting Around the World Only Be Allowed for Food?
• Where Is the Best Turkey Hunting in the World?
• What Is the Most Popular Type of Hunting?
• Chicago (A-D)
• Chicago (N-B)

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Psychological Disorders in Good Will Hunting

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Attachment issues, low self-esteem, fear of abandonment, references:.

• Bowlby, J. (1969). Attachment and loss: Vol. 1. Attachment. New York, NY: Basic Books.
• Maslow, A. H. (1943). A theory of human motivation. Psychological Review, 50(4), 370-396.
• Ainsworth, M. D. S. (1978). Patterns of attachment: A psychological study of the strange situation. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

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