Outrageous Celebrity & 7 approaches, Marilyn Manson PDF

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It is an assignment on Marilyn Manson, his behavior is explained through a psychology point of view. For each branch of psychology there is a different description....

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Psychology Psychological Perspective

Name: Jineth Carmona

Celebrity: Marilyn Manson

Explanation of the celebrity’s behavior according to the psychological perspective Marilyn Manson is so comfortable with himself, his true identity that he experiments with it even more. This helps him become more sensitive to his childhood trauma.

Humanist

Psychoanalytic / Psychodynamic

Biological/ Neuroscience

Marilyn Manson’s parents forced him into cristianity at a young age but after he was molested he chose to rebel against the christian lifestyle.

Genetics and structure of the brain may greatly influence his behavior. His behavior seems to be a type of mental illness which could also be from genetic inheritance. It could be depression from childhood trauma or from sadly being molested by his neighbor.

Marilyn Manson changed from being a christian kid that was raised in a religious household into being a satanist with a very dark gothic style. Evolutionary

Marilyn Manson had a hard and traumatic childhood. The fact that he was molested completely changed him. The trauma set him on a path of rebellion as a way to heal everyday. Behavioral

Marilyn Manson's parents allowed him to rebel against norms. They accepted his change and odd life choices which made him confident. He views himself as his own god. Cognitive

Social-Cultural

Marilyn Manson was affected by his friends, environment, and community who were role models to him. When he saw people being crazy and not being in the norms with what his family beliefs and religion, it made him rebel. This is why Manson learned satanism and developed a very unique look.

Marilyn Manson, Brian Hugh Warner, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, painter, and writer. Known for his outrageous outfits and on-stage antics, Marilyn Manson is a goth-rock performer who has been protested and boycotted because of his perceived "dark" views. Vice police arrested Manson at a Jacksonville, Florida concert for urinating on a crowd and charged him with violating the "Adult Entertainment Code. Manson received a call telling him that Church of Satan founder Anton Szandor LaVey requested his presence. "Near the end of our visit, he said, 'I want to make you a Reverend,' and gave me a crimson card certifying me as a minister in the Church of Satan," Manson wrote in his diary. "It was like an honorary degree from a university." Manson has also scarred himself for life while still in school by taking a pocket knife to his arms, but that act doesn't compare to the fateful San Francisco concert where the singer plunged a broken beer bottle into his chest. Manson recalled "dragging it across [his] skin until it reached the other side." He has also smoked human bones and grave digged. A day after the 15-year-old daughter of Michael Jackson, Paris, allegedly slit her wrists with a meat cleaver because she was not allowed to attend a Manson concert, the singer dedicated "Disposable Teens" to her and simulated cutting his own wrists. "I hope you feel better," Manson tweeted to Paris before the show. "You will be on my guest list anytime you want." He also has alleged sexual, physical and emotional abuse against his ex-girlfriend Evan Rachel Wood....