Case Snow White by susale

Case Snow White

Let´s see who we have here next. Oh yes, Snow White; a young women in her early twenties suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, convinced that her stepmother is trying to kill her. She believes that her stepmother has hired a hitman - or huntsman as she herself calls him - to kill her. Few weeks ago she had a bite of apple stuck in her throat and she nearly choked. Ever since that incident she has believed her stepmother is trying to poison her and she now has a phobia for red apples.

She has a very vivid imagination, she has even invented imaginary friends for herself - 7 dwarfs. She also spends hours each day standing in a window hiding behind the curtains waiting and believing that a handsome Prince is out there looking for her, yes a very common delusion for those storybook characters who have been growing up in a shadow of a evil stepmother.

To really understand Snow White, we must look into her past. You see her mother died when she was very young and soon her father remarried. Snow was very jelous for her new stepmother for her father´s attention. I believe her hatred for her stepmother comes from that feeling of being shadowed by the stepmother when it comes to his faher´s affection. Snow of course could not accept those kind of negative emotions in herself so she denied them and projected them to her stepmother.

Next we have 37-year-old male who believes to be a flying elephant named Dumbo....

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Inspired by the Mad Hatters http://365project.org/madhatters/profile this weeks theme of bringing storybook characters in to a therapy. It got me thinking that many of the storybook characters would be diagnozed mentally ill if they would tell their story here in the real world.


http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/21424/mad-hatters-theme-week-4-music
March 2nd, 2014  
Poor snow white! But hey... I love, love the tones!
March 2nd, 2014  
Nice shot - I enjoyed the narrative very much.
March 2nd, 2014  
Very atmospheric photo :)
March 2nd, 2014  
Beautifully done with wonderful tones and a great vignette.
March 2nd, 2014  
Excellent composition and processing - taken as a whole with the narrative this really works. Such an interesting take on a well known story - Fav
March 2nd, 2014  
Brilliant! Love the set up and the story, she does have some issues indeed :-). Love it. Fav
March 2nd, 2014  
Very cool
March 2nd, 2014  
Love this ...fav!!!
March 2nd, 2014  
brilliant Suse .. love your storytelling .. does look like a page of a storybook (of a story gone awry though :-)) ...Fav
March 2nd, 2014  
Wow..Susa! this is first a beautiful pic and then such a well told drama...is that the Snow White I know? Fav girl.:):!!
March 2nd, 2014  
@nanderson Thank you Nancy girl so much for your wonderful comment & for the fav, oh and yes you know this Snow White :)
March 2nd, 2014  
@nanderson Oh and I´ll be uploading the challenge later this eve, still trying to decide between the two choices
March 2nd, 2014  
Such imagination! Great picture and processing btw!
March 2nd, 2014  
@ericdibosco Thank you Eric, I have always had a vivid imagination, too vivid for my own good :D it´s funny that you mentioned it, as one of my friend told me today that this is the me she likes best and that she´s so happy I haven´t lost my imagination. I feel like I have, a lot compared to what it used to be,
March 2nd, 2014  
Fascinating capture and the outfit's so........FAVulous-:)
March 2nd, 2014  
Great capture! :)
March 2nd, 2014  
Love it! fav
March 2nd, 2014  
This is just fantastic, love the commentary, love the processing
March 2nd, 2014  
Such a wonderful capture and a really fabulous story. A fav. I am going to love seeing Dumbo and others...
March 3rd, 2014  
Whether the subject is mentally ill or not, this is a lovely soft capture.
March 3rd, 2014  
hehehehe love the idea & the writing! I think a bit more of the window would've been nice to see but this is a cool image! You have a lot of cool dresses around... :) Larppaaja ? :) ota favi
March 3rd, 2014  
@janim Aww thanks :) Larppaaja, noup :D Mä vaan tykkään pukeutuu kotona kaikkiin releisiin ihan huvikseni, you know sisäköks and sairaanhoitajaks .... ;-) No ei vaiskaan, on vaan noita Halloween pippaloita sen verran juhlittu ihan kunnon releillä, et kaikkennäköst löytyy kaapeista. Toi on itseasiassa mun vanha vanhojentanssipuku, joka on uudelleentuunattu tolleen prinsessamuottiin.
March 3rd, 2014  
@susale hyvin tuunattu, Lumikki tuli heti mieleen tällaselle satujen ja mekkojen asiantuntijallekin :) Hmm mulla on jossain joku ritaripuku... :)
March 3rd, 2014  
@janim "Satujen ja mekkojen asiantuntija", sustahan paljastuu kokoajan kaikkii yllävii uusii puolia ;-) Ritarireleet, cool, siitähän sais vaiks mitä kehiteltyy....me itseasiassa otettiin aina hirveesti kaikkii lavastettuja stoorikuvia kaikissa pippaloissa, vähän boolii ja sit kaikkii hölmäjä ideoita toteuttaan, sit ku oli vielä mesis sellasii tyyppei, jotka osas heittäytyy kaikkeen loistavilla ilmeillä ja eleillä, hauskoja otoksii on niiltä ajoilta. Siit varmaan oikeesti juontaa mun viehtymys tälläsiin lavastettuihin kuviin, enhän mä mitään muita kuvii ottaiskaan, jos mulla vaan olis tarpeeks aikaa&malleja....
March 3rd, 2014  
cool : )
March 3rd, 2014  
Very cool pic
March 3rd, 2014  
How fantastic!
March 3rd, 2014  
this is beautiful. You have the most gorgeous costumes!
March 4th, 2014  
@kiwiniknak Aww thank you Niki!
March 4th, 2014  
Great shot. Really enjoyed the story.
March 5th, 2014  
I missed this one. Wonderful shot and great story. Probably closer to the truth than we dare admit. Lol
March 7th, 2014  
So sorry I missed this! It is a faVulous image and such a wonderful story. I like it better then the original. So pretty!! FAV
March 8th, 2014  
btw is that you? look so different from your profile. this is a fun theme though ... maybe I should work on the story of a delusional frog that thought a beautiful princess kissed him and he turned to prince charming .... actually maybe not ... thats feel very real .... lol :-))
March 8th, 2014  
@friend2303 Thank you my friend for all the
the comments. These were definitely fun to do and I have few ideas left, maybe I use them later. It's actually my sister, she makes a good model being so delicate and amall. I don't know did you start as a frog but now you're definitely a prince;)
March 9th, 2014  
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