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'''Final Fantasy VII''' is a best selling RPG for the Sony Playstation. Despite being a best seller the game is filled with highly offensive material. For one it features a hockey team named the AVALANCHE who are also a terrorist group. They blow up a coal power plant but justify it by saying they are helping the environment. The game is also filled with profanity especially from Cid and Barrett (who bears a strong resemblence to Mr. T). The game was also critcized harshly because of the sexual liasons of the main character Cloud Strife. He has relations with three girls in the course of the game including a 16 year old Japenese girl named Yuffie.
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==Characters==
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===Cloud===
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This is a large subject, but it would be helpful for now to examine how the American Psychiatric Association (APA) arrived at certain position statements and modes or recommended methods of treatment. Psychiatry does not exist in a vacuum, and some of its standard diagnoses are interwoven with America’s sociological development. We shall examine three areas where changes have occurred in the attitude and outlook of these professionals since roughly the 1940s and 50s.
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The main protagonist of the game. Once a member of the US marines, now heads an eco-terrorist group called Avalanche
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===Barrett (aka Mr. T)===
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While Psychiatrists are viewed by most of society as experts in the field of human beings ability to carry on relationships with each other, in the field there is much frustration.  Most will tell you they do not have all the answers, or for that matter, even understand what the underlying problems are. Yet the whole of society, beginning with Legislators and Courts, view them as the best educated, most knowledgeable, and place unreasonable demands upon them to provide answers, or at a minimum, explanations for the curious phenomena of all sorts of inexplicable mental conditions and behavior. Since the abandonment of things like faith in God or prayer to treat some of these problems, coupled with the worship of science, or more properly, man’s ability to gain knowledge and understanding about his environment, all the societal problems of humanity are dumped upon practitioners in this field, who readily admit their limited capacity to understand let alone make recommendations.
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An African-American man who is second in command in Avalanche to Cloud. Has an adopted white daughter named Marlene. Shows love and affection to her, one of the few redeeming qualities of this highly offensive game.
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===Tifa===
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==Juvenile delinquency==
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Cloud's gf from his childhood. Flashbacks show Tifa and Cloud engaging in sexual acts as early as age 12. This part of the game as been highly criticized
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Juvenile delinquency gives us our first insight how the field has evolved. In the 1940s, shortly after WWII ended, a great faith was placed in the field of behavioral sciences to resolve the problems of criminal behavior, beginning with youth who had not reached the stage of incorrigibility yet. Juvenile courts had existed for some decades, routinely a Juvenile Judge would adjudicate a minor law breaker as “delinquent”, and the offender remanded to state-run Reform Schools. It was a brutal and harsh thing to endure for a young person. By the 1950s Juvenile Judges sought outside expertise before rendering their judgment—they first referred the juvenile offender to a psychiatrist for observation and treatment. If the doctor recommended some alternative mode of treatment – perhaps sending an unwanted or unloved minor to live with an aunt or foster home – the judicial label of “juvenile delinquent” could be avoided, hence not stigmatizing the offender for life.  IOW, the Psychiatric profession began passing the judgment upon the child as a “juvenile delinquent”, and the Courts just rubber stamped it.  While juvenile delinquency was not a recognized “mental condition” by the APA, nonetheless, they were called upon by the Courts to render a diagnosis “yea or nay” for “delinquency”.
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===Aeris===
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Another one of Cloud's love interests. Cloud steals Aeris' virginity. To be fair though, Cloud does show genuine affection towards her and becomes extremely upset when she is brutally murdered by Sephiroth.
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This system worked throughout the 1950s and 60s.  By the early 1970s, psychiatrists began to review the fruit of their efforts. “Delinquents”, beginning adult life with a criminal record, soon ended up in adult prisons.  Having spent most of their lives institutionalize, and being graduates of crime schools, they soon became incorrigibles. The APA felt they were only contributing to the problem.
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===Cid Jefferson===
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Owner of the Jefferson Airplane, an aircraft you can use to fly all over the world. Joins your group after he is offered a night with Yuffie and a 12 pack of Blue.
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Once in adult prisons, they often embraced the homosexual lifestyle completely. Psychiatrists soon saw the correlation between their “diagnosis” of a minor delinquent with their later diagnosis of an adult homosexual. It was at this time, a massive reform of the criminal justice system, or prison industrial complex, began taking shape. Deregulation or outsourcing hit the juvenile justice system, (a Thatcherization of sorts).  Private “Residential Treatment Centers” took the place of state run Reform Schools, and the field of psychiatry began to shy away from the “diagnosis” of “delinquency”, except in the most extreme criminal circumstances. “Delinquency”, which never was an APA recognized disorder, was replaced with official diagnosis of "Adolescent adjustment reaction”, -- the pains of growing up.
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===Vince the Pince===
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A mysterious man who has been locked in the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim for 30 years. He has been crygenically frozen so he still resembes a 27 year old man. Shoots people with his Colt 45.
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==Homosexuality==
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===Cait Sith===
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While the prisons were consistently being fed with the fresh fodder of youth shoplifters and thieves from Reform Schools in the 1930s and 40s, only to graduate as full fledged, well schooled criminals and incorrigibles, by the 1950s and 60s adult prisons were the place homosexual activity was regarded as normal. Homosexuality was still a crime in virtually 48 or 49 states as late as 1980. Vice Squads routinely picked up gay “cruisers” much as the do prostitutes still today. In the early 1970s, homosexuals suffered the “double whammy”, homosexuality was considered not only a diagnosable mental condition, it was also a crime.
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A puppett controlled by a 40 year old virgin who works in an office in Midgar. Turns out to be a mole for Shinra but later joins the cause of AVALANCHE
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===Yuffie Kisagari===
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Having established that a diagnosis of "delinquency” set a troubled youth on a path of an incorrigible criminal career and life in prison as an open homosexual, the APA began to reconsider its role in the Criminal Justice System.   To their credit, they gave up all that income from a captive audience in the prisons, where virtually the whole population was being referred to them for having mental and behavior disorders – virtually all with the same diagnosis – homosexuality, the Doctors finally admitted they did not have a clue how to treat it.  What was apparent, in their eyes, was their diagnosis caused the stigmatization.  (As a digression, the prostitute falls into the same trap: she’s a prostitute because nobody loves her, nobody loves her because she’s a prostitute.  It’s a vicious circle.)
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An attractive Japenese teenager. She has a passionate affair with Cloud Strife and also has relations with Cid (she only slept with Cid so the crew would get access to the Jefferson Airplane). She was kidnapped and molested by Don Corleone in Tokyo but was rescued before Corleone could have intercourse with her.]
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===Red CXIX===
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So the APA, using the “scientific” research on decades of non-voluntary referrals, changed its classification of homosexuality as a mental illness.  For probably 40 years up to that point, perhaps as much as 90% of the case studies on diagnosed homosexuals did not seek Psychiatric help willingly. And as any therapist or facilitator will tell you, a person with any kind of mental, emotional, or spiritual problem must be willing to change to obtain any sort of result.  There is no magic pill to cure problems.  Recognizing personal shortcomings, and a willingness to do something about it, goes without saying any further comment. The point here is, the science that declassified homosexuality in 1973, was an entirely difference science driven by entirely different set of social factors that are not in play today. The homosexual today who seeks treatment for his condition comes forwardly willingly, only to be slapped in the face, and insulted, and told he has no hope of being able to change.
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Cloud's pet dog. A loyal companion with a gentle temperment, Red is probably the most moral individual in the game (sad to say because he is not even human). He shows affection to all he meets especially children.
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===Sephiroth===
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==Depression==
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A highly dangerous psychopath with superhuman strength. He is also a leader of a dangerous cult known as Jenova's Witnesses. He is the main antagonist of the game and brutally murders Aeris in the Canadian Rockies.
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In our final review topic, we’ll expand somewhat to look at a sub-classification common in the practice of all medical fields, and that is the difference between a disease and a disorder.  A disease is considered organically based, whereas a disorder can create symptoms, ailments, and compliments, but has no recognized organic basis. “Eating disorders” for example, while not generally recognized as organically based can cause a multitude of physical and mental problems. The treatments generally consist of educating the patient about his problems and habits, and learning what behaviors are consistent with alleviating his complaints.  
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==Criticisms==
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Although from a commercial standpoint Final Fantasy VII was highly successful, it has been criticized by a variety of both liberal and conservative groups including Christian groups, women's groups, and minority groups.
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Since the time of Freud, “Depression” was considered a “mental disorder”, and later on more often referred to as an “emotional disorder”. The theory evolved that the root emotional problem was “repressed anger”, an inward temper tantrum direct against the self.  Various forms of treatment evolved, essentially designed to get the patient to recognize the onset of anger, and to deal with it in some way other than trying to forget it. The famous “Cathartic scream” for example, was one such mode of treatment.
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===Christian Criticisms===
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Although the game does not mock Christianity or make any references to God or Jesus, the game does violate Christian values. On one hand, Cloud does show genuine affection to his friends and lovers and Barrett is shown to have a good relationship to his daughter but the game is fraught with moral relativism. The protagonists of the game are eco-terrorists who although their cause may be noble, their methods are brutal and repugnant and their actions kill innocent civilians. Although their renounce terror later in the game, this does not excuse their actions. Also sex is trivalized in the game. Instead of being the ultimate act of intimacy between a man and his wife; Cloud has relations with three unmarried young women, one of whom is still a teenager. Although the acts were depicted as consensual, this does not send a good message to young impressionable children and teens.
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Like most modes of treatment descended from Freudian psychoanalysis, after decades of review surveys it was discovered one third of patients responded to treatment, one third did not, and one third deteriorated.  By 1985, the Pharmaceutical lobby got into the act.  A pill was designed to cure virtually all ailments, so why not invent an organic basis for depression likewise.  The profession was ready to try anything, given its record of failure. Depression was upgraded from a disorder to having an organic basis, and “Bi-polar disease” became the latest fad, based upon a theory of “chemical imbalance in the brain”, i.e. scientific rendition of “we haven’t a clue”.  
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===Women's Rights Group Criticisms===
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Ironically, many women's rights groups share some of the same complaints as Christian groups. Despite often being at odds with each other, feminists and Christians find some common ground in their opposition to this game. Women's groups find the way sex is trivalized to be highly offensive as well as the fact that the girls in the game are sometimes treated as sex objects by the other characters. The fact that a 16 year old is depicted in sexual acts with an older man (Cloud is 21 years old) has also been harshly criticized.
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So now all “depressives” are no longer treated as having emotional disorders that can be treated with educational therapy.  On the plus, rather than two years therapy to get the patient to understand his problem, the APA and the Pharmaceutical industry now have a patient for life.  Kind of like cell phone or cable TV service, write the patient a new prescription every month for the rest of his natural existence, and its income for everybody, without the messy business of dealing with a crazy person on the couch every week for only two years with a one third success rate.  Keep them doped up, and their too incapacitated to understand their real problems anyway.
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===Minority Rights Group Criticisms===
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Both Japanese and African-American groups have been highly outraged by the stereotypical portrayal of Japenase and African American characters. Barrett is depicted as loud, hot-headed and prone to violence, reinforcing the stereotype of black gang members. Yuffie is portrayed as a nymphomaniac which perpetuates the stereotype that Japanese women are merely the playthings of Western men.
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Final Fantasy VII is a best selling RPG for the Sony Playstation. Despite being a best seller the game is filled with highly offensive material. For one it features a hockey team named the AVALANCHE who are also a terrorist group. They blow up a coal power plant but justify it by saying they are helping the environment. The game is also filled with profanity especially from Cid and Barrett (who bears a strong resemblence to Mr. T). The game was also critcized harshly because of the sexual liasons of the main character Cloud Strife. He has relations with three girls in the course of the game including a 16 year old Japenese girl named Yuffie.

Characters

Cloud

The main protagonist of the game. Once a member of the US marines, now heads an eco-terrorist group called Avalanche

Barrett (aka Mr. T)

An African-American man who is second in command in Avalanche to Cloud. Has an adopted white daughter named Marlene. Shows love and affection to her, one of the few redeeming qualities of this highly offensive game.

Tifa

Cloud's gf from his childhood. Flashbacks show Tifa and Cloud engaging in sexual acts as early as age 12. This part of the game as been highly criticized

Aeris

Another one of Cloud's love interests. Cloud steals Aeris' virginity. To be fair though, Cloud does show genuine affection towards her and becomes extremely upset when she is brutally murdered by Sephiroth.

Cid Jefferson

Owner of the Jefferson Airplane, an aircraft you can use to fly all over the world. Joins your group after he is offered a night with Yuffie and a 12 pack of Blue.

Vince the Pince

A mysterious man who has been locked in the Shinra mansion in Nibelheim for 30 years. He has been crygenically frozen so he still resembes a 27 year old man. Shoots people with his Colt 45.

Cait Sith

A puppett controlled by a 40 year old virgin who works in an office in Midgar. Turns out to be a mole for Shinra but later joins the cause of AVALANCHE

Yuffie Kisagari

An attractive Japenese teenager. She has a passionate affair with Cloud Strife and also has relations with Cid (she only slept with Cid so the crew would get access to the Jefferson Airplane). She was kidnapped and molested by Don Corleone in Tokyo but was rescued before Corleone could have intercourse with her.]

Red CXIX

Cloud's pet dog. A loyal companion with a gentle temperment, Red is probably the most moral individual in the game (sad to say because he is not even human). He shows affection to all he meets especially children.

Sephiroth

A highly dangerous psychopath with superhuman strength. He is also a leader of a dangerous cult known as Jenova's Witnesses. He is the main antagonist of the game and brutally murders Aeris in the Canadian Rockies.

Criticisms

Although from a commercial standpoint Final Fantasy VII was highly successful, it has been criticized by a variety of both liberal and conservative groups including Christian groups, women's groups, and minority groups.

Christian Criticisms

Although the game does not mock Christianity or make any references to God or Jesus, the game does violate Christian values. On one hand, Cloud does show genuine affection to his friends and lovers and Barrett is shown to have a good relationship to his daughter but the game is fraught with moral relativism. The protagonists of the game are eco-terrorists who although their cause may be noble, their methods are brutal and repugnant and their actions kill innocent civilians. Although their renounce terror later in the game, this does not excuse their actions. Also sex is trivalized in the game. Instead of being the ultimate act of intimacy between a man and his wife; Cloud has relations with three unmarried young women, one of whom is still a teenager. Although the acts were depicted as consensual, this does not send a good message to young impressionable children and teens.

Women's Rights Group Criticisms

Ironically, many women's rights groups share some of the same complaints as Christian groups. Despite often being at odds with each other, feminists and Christians find some common ground in their opposition to this game. Women's groups find the way sex is trivalized to be highly offensive as well as the fact that the girls in the game are sometimes treated as sex objects by the other characters. The fact that a 16 year old is depicted in sexual acts with an older man (Cloud is 21 years old) has also been harshly criticized.

Minority Rights Group Criticisms

Both Japanese and African-American groups have been highly outraged by the stereotypical portrayal of Japenase and African American characters. Barrett is depicted as loud, hot-headed and prone to violence, reinforcing the stereotype of black gang members. Yuffie is portrayed as a nymphomaniac which perpetuates the stereotype that Japanese women are merely the playthings of Western men.

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