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1. Premonition
Schizophrenia

2. Psychology Basis

3. Schizophrenia
● A severe mental disorder that impairs a person's ability to think, feel, and
behave clearly.

4. Schizophrenia
● The true cause of Schizophrenia has not yet been found. However,
Schizophrenia may be caused by genetics, environment, and altered brain
chemistry.

5. Schizophrenia Symptoms
● Possible symptoms include thoughts or experiences that seem out of touch
with reality, confused speech or behavior, and less presence in daily activities.
Complications with concentration and memory may also present.

6. Schizophrenia Treatment
● Treatment for Schizophrenia is usually lifelong and includes medications,
psychotherapy, and coordinated specialty care services.
● Antipsychotic and Anti-Tremor are the medications taken for treating
Schizophrenia.
● Antipsychotics are effective at reducing Schizophrenia symptoms in
● Support group, Rehabilitation, and Psychoeducation are three common
therapies used for treating Schizophrenia.
● Most

7. Media

8. Premonition
Premonition is about a depressed women who finds out her husband dies in a car
accident and every time she wakes up she experiences different events that do not
add up.

9. Linda Hanson
● Linda is a housewife that has two little girls. After
hearing the heart wrenching news that her husband has
died in a car accident she struggles with what is
happening to her. Every other day she wakes up to find
that her husband is still alive or so she thinks.

10. Jim Hanson
● Jim Hanson is a loving father who struggles to
find strength in his marriage. He dies in a car
accident on a work trip.

11. Megan and Bridgette Hanson
● Megan and Bridgette are the daughters of
Linda and Jim. They are quiet and sweet.
The death of Jim affects Bridgette more
than Megan because she is older.

12. Premonition
Thursday morning Linda opens the door to a sheriff who tells her that her husband,
Jim has died in a car accident the day before. When she wakes up the next
morning she finds that Jim is alive and making breakfast. The next day she wakes
up and he is dead. This happens for almost a week.

13. Premonition
Soon Linda realizes that her days are being mixed up. She makes a weekly
calendar that helps her to sort out her confusion. It seems as if every time she
wakes up, her days are going backwards and replaying the same situations. She
believes that if her days keep rewinding she may be able to prevent her husband
from getting in a car accident. She goes through a series of terrible events in
hoping that she can save Jim's life.

14. Connection

15. Connection
● The film is connected to a psychological disorder in that Linda starts to
experience a breakdown from reality and delusions “Schizophrenia” due to the
death of her husband, Jim.

16. Connection
● The day after Linda finds out that Jim died she faces a withdrawal from reality
as to which she wakes up to find him alive. She spends the whole day
confused and going crazy trying to figure out what is happening.

17. Connection
● While Linda thinks she is being taken back to the days before her husband
dies she begins to have delusions that make her think she can save her
husband from getting in an accident.
● Linda’s inappropriate actions and feelings continues to worsen and the people
around her start to believe she is insane. She gets admitted into a mental
hospital.

18. Conclusion
● In the last scene of the movie, Linda wakes up to her house packed up into
boxes and she is moving into a new home with her daughters but she was
continuing to have flashbacks of what had been happening.

19. References
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354443
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477071/
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/movies/16prem.html