Hello..I'm a Psychology Graduate and I would like to ask what's a good anime about Psychology, and I don't mean psychological anime like Death note o Danganronpa where it just plays with your mind.
I mean Anime where it talks about stuffs like Freud, and some Psych. Disorders like Bipolar, Anixety etc..
so far I've seen the following and these are based on my opinion '
-Welcome to the NHK (Agoraphobia)
- March comes like a Lion (Anxiety and Depression)
-Caligula (The series is heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud)
- Kono oto Tomare (For me this is heavily influenced by Albert Bandura)
- Hourou Musuko (Gender Identitiy Disorder)
-Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu (social Anxiety Disorder)
- One Week Friends (Anterogade Amnesia)
-Psycho-pass (Industrial Psychology Theories)
-Oregairu (About social relationships)
If you know a series that talks about stuffs like this i would love to hear your recommendation.
I'd say Tokyo Ghoul, they don't say it out loud but the main char shows quite a few mental disorders and drastic personality changes throughout the series as certain events happen.
For example / The plot:
The main character is first an innocent boy. Quite shy, very optimistic and gentle
Because of his mothers death he always had this fear to be alone but that's why he always protected the ones beside him.
However he once had an accident and turned into a ghoul (i won't go into details why but a ghoul is a creature that eats people).
So he turned half ghoul, half human. That's when he started to get troubled with his inner self.
He didn't want to hurt others, eat them, be a ghoul.
He thought he didn't have a place where he could belong and every time he had to fight he'd not hesitate to put his life on the line to protect others.
At this time h e lived with the ideology of "better being hurt than hurting others"
But then he got tortured. His personality changed drastically and it's as if he's a whole new person with all of his ethics gone. He accepted the ghoul within him and became brutal. He killed his torturer and ate him, though he was a ghoul too.
Kaneki, the main char now lived by a new ideology "i am the strong. I have the right to devour the weak."
After the torture he still was able to show his sweet and good nature side before his friends but instantly turned into a brutal monster in front of his enemies.
At a certain time he wanted to go away and find his inner self. That's when another personality change happens. He left all the people he protected so far. His memory "got" erased and he turned again in a good natured person, he worked together with the ccg, kinda like exterminators / investigators of ghouls and buried his own ghoul side.
His new personality was strong and loyal. Actually quite different from how he was before he was a ghoul.
But now he was afraid of his ghoul side and suppressed it as long as he could but sometimes he just snapped and then he'd see a lot of flashbacks from the past, when he was brutal.
His inner ghoul (another personality of him) would then talk to him in his mind, pushing him to lose control and turn again into the monster he was before.
Eventually that happened. At this moment he was stuck with, i think 3 different personalities in his mind, all fighting against each other.
The series continue and a lot of things happen.
"Human relationships are chemical reactions.
If you have a reaction then you can never return back to your previous state of being."