In "What The Bleep Do We Know?" the main character, Amanda, gives up her addiction to stress pills, gains insight into reality, and changes her view of others, all through a series of misfortunate events. Amanda is a photographer who suspected, and caught her husband cheating on her right after they got married. Her marriage and her husbands adultry all change the way she sees things in her life.

     In M. Scott Peck's "The Road Less Traveled" Peck talks about the idea of transference, or the "set of ways of perceiving and responding to the world which is developed in childhood and which is usually entirely appropriate to the childhood environment...but which is inappropriately transferred into the adult environment." Transference can also be defined as "the process of active clinging to an outmoded view of reality." Transference is what Amanda suffers from in the movie. M. Scott Peck also states that "(transference) is the basis for much mental illness." This mental illness is what causes Amanda's addiction to her stress pills.

     When Amanda is assigned by her photography company to a wedding at the same church she was married at, she immediately has a bias that the wedding will be a drag. When she goes to the wedding, the map she has of past weddings, which includes the groom cheating on the bride with the bridesmaid, causes her to see the groom of this wedding cheat with a bridesmaid in the bathroom. When she goes crazy and tries to tell everyone, she is confronted by a guy from the wedding. When he tries to calm her down and explain to her what she saw, her map of guys being cheaters causes her to think badly of him. But as the wedding goes on, Amanda's view of whats going on around her is clouded by what she thinks is happening. She starts seeing all the men around her fill with lust, including Elliot, the guy who confronted her.

     But when Amanda wakes up the next morning, and sees herself in the mirror, she is horrified and imagines her hips expanding. She curses herself and shatters her mirror. It is then in her breakdown that she realizes what her problem is. She all of the sudden realizes her beauty, her biases, and "maps." Because of this realization, she kicks her addiction to stress pills too.

     In the movie, Amanda's maps define what she experiences in her life. They cause her addiction to her stress pills, they cause her to imagine the groom having sex with the bridesmaid in the bathroom, and they define what she thinks of Elliot. What she experiences is transference, the clinging to the ideas molded by her broken up marriage, applied to the life she lives.