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DSM Eliminates Multiaxial System

This essay discusses several issue regarding psychology. It begins with a report that the new DSM does not use a multiaxial system...

Somatoform Disorders and DSM-V

one-third of patients with major depression experience remission using the first medication prescribed. This leads the doctor will...

Issues in Health and Clinical Depression

The treatment, prevention and cure of clinical depression is discussed in this paper, which is taken from DSM-III.This paper has s...

Xanax: An Argument for Inclusion in the DSM

drug-related visits to the emergency rooms across the nation in 2005: "31% involved illicit drugs...

Pseudologia Phantastica - Pathological Lying

"told lies that were so abnormal and out of proportion that they deserved a special category" (Dike, 2008, p. 67). It was also Del...

'Mr. F.' Case Study and Theory

make items such as guns work properly, items that are obviously representative of Mr. Fs own genitalia. In another instance Mr. F...

DSM

also tells the user that when these symptoms occur together, or to the degree specified, the condition is usually called X (Riesen...

Treating Schizophrenia

(Long, 2003). In the diagnosis of schizophrenia, individuals are monitored over a period of six months during which they would ha...

DSM Classification System and the Homosexuality Exclusion Debate

In ten pages this paper examines the DSM classification system in a discussion of the deletion of homosexuality by the board of di...

Depression, Schizophrenia, and Neurotransmitters

In five pages this paper examines the role of neurotransmitter in such mental disorders as schizophrenia and depression. Six sour...

Functioning of Neurotransmitters, Depression, and Schizophrenia

In seven pages this paper examines the functioning of dopamine and serotonin neurotransmitters in schizophrenia and depression. N...

Contrasting Two Families Dealing with Schizophrenia

In fifteen pages this paper considers schizophrenia treatment in a comparative analysis of 2 families and how each deals with diag...

Clinical Practice Case Study on Schizophrenia Family Work

In thirteen pages this paper discusses clinical practice and theoretical model integration in a schizophrenia family work case stu...

Adult Alienation and Schizophrenia in The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing and Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

assumed. "Surfacing" The voice of the narrator in "Surfacing" characterizes the women in Atwoods later novels who are best define...

Questions on Psychosocial Issues

In fourteen pages this paper answers student posed questions regarding love, gender identity, attention deficit disorder, depressi...

DSM and Axes I through Psychological Assessment

In twelve pages this paper considers the diagnostic techniques the American Psychiatric Association uses and the definitions assoc...

History of Schizophrenia

In seven pages this paper discusses schizophrenia in a historical overview that also includes its symptoms such as hallucinations ...

Family Dynamics and a Schizophrenia Diagnosis

In fifteen pages this paper examines schizophrenia in a consideration of the family dynamics after a member has been diagnosed wit...

Sanity, Madness, and the Family by R.D. Laing and A. Esterson

In five pages this paper discusses the symptoms of schizophrenia as featured in the family profiles described in this text. Three...

Clozapine Compared To Effects of Other Pharmaceuticals

Willwerth, 1992). Anxiety and depression are common (Wallis and Willwerth, 1992). Approximately eighty percent of individuals tr...

Schizophrenia and the Cultural Symptoms Developed by Marvin K. Opler

with certain cultural elements of personality such as homosexuality (latent and overt) to predict the possibility of schizophrenia...

Schizophrenia and How to Live with It

to traumatic stress could provide a general prediction model for suicidality among those who have schizophrenia (2001). Here, it s...

Comparison of McCarley, Hobson, and Freud on Dream Theories

activity of the brain, especially in terms of physiological linkages that exist between consciousness and extreme mental disorders...

Overview of Childhood Onset Schizophrenia

Non-bizarre beliefs, because of the fact...

Mentally Ill Individuals, Dreams, and the Theories of Carl Jung

account but does not negate the deep dark crevices of the mind that dreams grow in. Everyone has had a horrific nightmare a...

Studying Schizophrenia

In a paper of seven pages the current information regarding schizophrenia is discussed. There are six bibliographic sources cited...

Defining and Treating Schizophrenia

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...

Description of the Condition Known as Schizophrenia

the population suffers from schizophrenia. * About 75% of patients developed schizophrenia between the ages of 15-25" (Internet s...

Neuroleptic Drugs and Schizophrenia

which to help both patient and family cope with associated stresses. Music therapy may prove only marginally effective depending ...

General Informational Overview of Schizophrenia

varies greatly in individuals, most people diagnosed with schizophrenia will usually suffer from one or more of its symptoms. The...