Don Juan DeMarco

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Lover Don Juan explains, "This is why at twenty one I have determined to end my life." (0:03)

"Oh well. Now I must die" He prepares to jump to his death. (0:07)

Detective Tobias tells psychiatrist Jack Mickler, "This is a job that only a certain shrink can handle... He wants to end his life gloriously." (0:08)

Jack: "Are you sure this is how Freud started?" (0:09)

Jack asks Don Juan, "Why with so many successes does the great Don Juan want to end his life?"
Don Juan: "Because there is nothing left to live for." (0:09)

"Woodhave State Hospital" gates close behind Jack's car. (0:12)

Jack says Don Juan was "brought in on a ten day paper after a suicidal gesture... no previous history of suicide... severely delusional." (0:13)

Psychiatrist Dr. Showalter tells Jack, "A delusional patient like this does not get cured in a week and a half... He'll be committed..." (0:14)

In session with psychiatrist Dr. Bill Dunsmore asks Don Juan, "Would you like to talk about why you attempted to kill yourself?" (0:16)

Bill asks Jack, "You told a delusional patient that you were a 17th century Spanish nobleman?" In a hospital corridor we see patients and staff. (0:18)

In session Jack tells Don Juan, "I have some pills here... I think they will help."
Don Juan: "You are severely deluded."
Jack: "They can make you take the medication... ten day paper."
Don Juan: "I am not deluded... If you will not medicate me... I will prove it to you... Then I will take your medication... and you may commit me for as long as you like." (0:19)

Don Juan tells Jack, "My father had come to Mexico to work for a pharmaceutical company." (0:25)

Dr. Showalter asks Jack, "When do you intend to start Don Juan on medication?... You do intend to give him medication... He's a delusional patient."
Jack: "If I give him medication Paul I'm never get into this world of his."
Showalter: "OK. No meds..."
Showalter: "In his hacienda, there are more nurses on Valium than patients." (0:28)

Nurse Rocco tells Don Juan, "Hey man it's time for your shrink." (0:29)

Jack administers the Rorschach test to Don Juan
Jack asks Don Juan whether "... this is a psychiatric hospital... and I am your psychiatrist?"
Don Juan: "... I understand that this is a mental hospital?" (0:30)

Jack dictates: "Obsessive compulsive disorder, with erotomanic features. Confirm delusional disorder. Confirm depression with delusional features. Possible hysterical personality." (0:37)

Session (0:45)

The death of Don Juan's father in a sword fight. (0:48)

Showalter: "It's time to put the kid on meds Jack."
Jack: "Fill him full of antipsychotic chemicals..."
Showalter "He is a schizophrenic... Put the boy on medication." (0:53)

Don Juan's grandmother tells Jack, "Tony died in a terrible car crash." (0:55)

In a session Don Juan asks Jack, "... so you will think I am sane... But there is a rumor that you are supposed to be a psychiatrist... Can you not tell when you meet a woman who is completely insane?" (0:56)

Jack tells Don Juan, "He tried to kill himself..." (0:58)

Don Juan tells Jack "Though I had no idea why I was made to dress as a female..." (1:00)

Staff meeting to discuss Don Juan:
Showalter: "Do we ask the judge to commit him?"
Showalter: "Jack, He's a suicidal patient."
Jack: "He's not suicidal. It was a call for help if it was anything."
Showalter: "We're going to have to transfer him to another therapist"
Bill: "If he's on medication I could."
Showalter: "He'll be on medication."
Jack: "All right, I'll give him a hundred milligrams of Novak qid... decrease it once his anxiety lessens" (1:07)

Don Juan turns the tables on Jack, and takes over the role of psychotherapist. (1:12)

Don Juan takes the medication given him by Jack. (1:22)

Commitment hearing with Judge who asks, "... what made you want to kill yourself..."
Don Juan: "... so I was going to kill myself... or at least I was going to make people believe that I was going to kill myself so I could get some attention or something. I never really had any intention of killing myself."
Judge: "I'm certainly not going to commit him to a mental institution..."
Jack: "Thank God for medication."

Jack: "I am the world's greatest psychiatrist."
"I must report, that the last patient I ever treated… the great lover, Don Juan De Marco, suffered from a romanticism which was completely incurable. And even worse, contagious…" (1:31)

Does the fact that Don Juan ultimately appears free of mental illness absolve Jack of a responsibility to maintain boundaries?

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