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Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the Present

the cause (2003). Again, while today it seems that psychology has focused on physical causes, as history progressed from ancient t...

Overview of the Social Service Agency

into mainstream society. The WCC has completely removed the stigma of the developmentally disabled and positively changed the way...

What Leads to Homelessness?

are many people in the lower and middle income brackets who have little put away. If they have no credit, and no one to bail them ...

Mentally Illness Treatment in Geel, Belgium

seems that the seriously mentally ill must live in a hospital setting for their own safety and the safety of others. Yet, in Geel,...

Articles by Fox and Levin and Rosenhan Critiqued

means always present. In any event, it...

Three Theories of Human Psychology

presents a discussion and his belief that the unavoidable conflict is created in every individual by the demands made by their ind...

Mothers Who Murder Their Infants

performed. Indeed, there is no argument that mothers who kill their children suffer from mental illness, yet it is the manner by ...

A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

A 'Norman Bates' Analysis

studying the film Psycho, does Norman represent a typical psychopath? First, does Hitchcocks film create an accurate repres...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Treatment of Mental Illness

more common in boys than girls (Silka and Hauser, 1997). Determining the cause of retardation can be difficult and hard to pinpoin...

Penal System and Mental Illness

population. The figure had been in line with a previous literature review which suggested that about 6 to 15% (1999, p.210) of peo...

A Comparison of The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and The Yellow Wallpaper

his insistence that he does not love her, is accounted for by the delirium which is affecting his mental faculties. However, the g...

Third Essay of The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche Analyzed III

In five pages this paper examines the work's 3rd essay in a consideration of such issues as asceticism, religion, and mental illne...

Labeling and Deviant Behavior

In four pages this research paper relates labeling to deviant conduct and also applies the same concept to sexual deviance, drugs,...

Disabilities and Discrimination

In ten pages disabilities are considered in the forms of mental illness and dwarfism in a discussion of discrimination against peo...

Mental Illness in Shelley and James

This paper examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Henry James' Washington Square in terms of how Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illn...

Therapist Suffering from Mental Illness and Mary Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind

way that conformed with the basic characteristics of manic depressive illness. "My manias, at least in their early and mild forms...

Mental Illness and Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents and The Id and the Ego

In six pages this paper discusses how mental illness is addressed in these two essays by Sigmund Freud. Three sources are cited i...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

Mental Illness and Juvenile Delinquency

age of sufferers continues to drop as depression in young people is on the rise. "Runaway, homeless youth as compared to nonhomel...

Child Abuse and Its Social Causes

In nine pages 3 student submitted case studies examine child abuse in terms of their social causes with alcoholism, pedophilia, ...

Mind and Body Connection of Thomas Szasz

In five pages this research paper examines the correlation between the mind and body within the context of Dr. Thomas S. Szasz's T...

Colonial Era and How Mental Illness and Retardation Was Treated

Iin six pages this paper examines the colonial era's unfair treatment of individuals suffering from mental illness. Four sources ...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Mental Illness

In twelve pages mental illness is examined from the perspectives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in terms of labels suc...

Treatment and Evaluation Methods

In five pages these student submitted fictitious case studies examines how to evaluate treatment methods in clinical environments ...

Delinquency and Crime Correlation

of aggravated assault yet lacks the capacity to ascertain that he actually committed a crime, then it would seem prudent that he b...

'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner and Insanity

In 5 pages this paper examines how the theme of insanity is depicted within the characterization of Emily and her mental illness. ...

The Theme of Violence in The Prince Of Tides

episode at some point in life. Depression often hits the elderly more than any other age group; however, with each passing ...

A Euthanasia Discussion

The pros and cons of assisted suicide and euthanasia are considered using the case studies of Oregon's 'Death With Dignity Act' an...

A Nursing Perspective on Patient Mental Illness

This 15 page paper discusses seven patients who suffer from various forms of mental illness, and argues that there may be an under...