[tips] Re: Movie: Grizzly Man

[Jean-Marc Perreault]

In any event, he was bound to get killed. I have a good friend who died this spring while surveying land for a mining company, up here in the Yukon. The line he was tracing happened to pass approximately 5 meters away from a grizzly den, who happened to have two cubs. The den was impossible to see, and the sow simply did her mother thing. Apparently, it was relatively quick, although different versions exist.   So to see that a man will voluntarily seek immersion with grizzly bears is somewhat beyond me. Bears are great to cuddle with in the Teddy version, not in the wild! I can see Dian Fossey doing it with Silverback gorillas, since they are our close cousins after all. And even then… But not bears. And as Tasha says, doing it against all the experts’ advice is not very wise either!   JM       From: Dr. Tasha Howe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:32 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Movie: Grizzly Man   I can't do any kind of armchair diagnosis, but the movie really disturbed me. If not diagnosable, the guy was really annoying! When the people who do tracking and in-depth research, wildlife protection, etc. of grizzly bears for a living tell you that you are doing something destructive and wrong with the bears, and yet you continue on your own personal mission to "become a bear", there's got to be some narcissism and grandiosity present! At 10:56 AM 8/22/2006, you wrote: Have any of you seen the movie Grizzly Man, a pseudo-documentary about a man, Timothy Treadwell, who lived with bears up in Alaska? If so, just wondering what you thought of his mental state? Would he qualify for a DSM diagnosis? Just curious... thanks! Naomi Schatz AP Psychology The Harker School San Jose CA 95117 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english ========================== Tasha R. Howe, Ph.D Associate Professor of Psychology Humboldt State University 1 Harpst Street Arcata, CA  95521 Phone: (707) 826-3759 FAX: (707) 826-4993 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://www.humboldt.edu/~psych/fs/howe/howe.htm "The time to be happy is now.  The place to be happy is here.  The way to be happy is to make others so."                                                                                          Shaker proverb --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english