Psychology of a Hero: ANNA from Disney's FROZEN

by Panzer
Jonathan: Some people, they land on avoidant attachment style, which is what...
which is what Elsa does, right? But for... for Anna, she's anxiously attached,
meaning she wants so desperately to be connected
Alan: Right. Jonathan: She wants so desperately to be loved
and to share herself with somebody and have somebody else share themselves with her
Anna: It's true love! Kristoff: Woah!
Jonathan: Welcome to Cinema Therapy, I'm Jonathan Decker, licensed therapist,
I love the movies.
Alan: I am Alan Seawright, professional filmmaker and I need therapy.
Jonathan: And this is a continuation of Psychology of a Hero. We're looking at the Frozen Chosen
The Frozen Chosen: Chocolate!
Jonathan: Elsa and Anna
Psychology of a Hero is where we break down the emotional health, mental health
and relationship health struggles of our favorite heroes to show that we all got
problems and there's no shame in getting some help.
Alan: And if you overcome them, maybe you can star in your own animated film.
Jonathan: Anna gets blasted in the face by her sister's ice powers. They take her to
the rock-n-rolling trolls and she gets her memory erased.
Elsa is... feels so guilty for almost killing her sister.
Alan: Sure. Jonathan: That she says:
I'm a danger, I'm a threat and just
basically leaves Anna to rot. And then their parents die.
And "Do you want to build a snowman?" In some ways it's such a silly song.
And then it turns so heartbreaking.
Anna: It doesn't have to be a snowman Elsa: Go away, Anna
Anna: Ok, bye.
Alan: Yeah, it's so cute until it's so sad,
Jonathan: Then the parents die and Anna's just spent years and years and years
and the first time watching Frozen thinking: come on Anna, you're naive
and your desperation for love it's a little much.
And then we all went to quarantine for a year.
Alan: Wow. It turns out that was maybe underplaying it.
Jonathan: Yeah, exactly. I mean...
Dr. Frankenstein: Let me out of here. Get me the hell out of here.
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Jonathan: It's really important to us that you have a resource for therapy, because
what we do on the show isn't therapy. Because therapy is personalized, is individual.
It's not something we can do here for you.
Alan: Yeah, we often say on the show: if you need therapy, get therapy.