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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

even perhaps a friend or coworker, may not be able to detect and have no idea someone has this disorder. Others who suffer may be ...

Multiple Personality Disorder

hypnotizable and extremely suggestible" (Kantrowitz 66). This particular doctor also believes that Sybils personalities were actua...

Eating Disorders

many ways and through controlling their bodies, even to death, they have some control over their own destiny. People who have eati...

Six Annotated Bibliographies: Eating Disorders and the Media

bibliographies; students will need to format items they use according to the style of their paper. First Bibliography: URL: http...

Conversion Disorder

such as tragedies, deaths, serious injuries or threatening situations, require the human being to respond in a way that intensifie...

Criminal Behavior: John Wilkes Booth

and Bernstein, 2007, p. 78). While Eysenck apparently did not develop his theory of behavior specifically with regard to crime, la...

Effects of PTSD on Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Red Convertible,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home,’ and Tim O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

What Happens When You Are Tired

Did you know that between 50 and 70 million adults in the United States have sleep disorders. The people are unable to function at...

Healing the Body and Mind with Yoga

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of how meditation can help healing. This paper includes the practice of meditation for heal...

Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

Diagnostic Process for DSM IV TR

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at the process of diagnosing psychological disorders. The five axis diagnosis process i...

How Does ADHD Affect Learning

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

"Normal" Personality

meaning that is constantly up for interpretation within the psychiatric community. Clearly, the very concept of normal hinges upo...

Physician's Role and Dementia

attributed to the increased sophistication of the diagnostic methodologies, technology, and increased understanding. WHY IS CONDI...

Use of Lithium Within The Field of Psycho-Pharmacology

notes that another five percent are victims of occasional despondency, with one of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or m...

Examination of Personality and Psychological Disorders and Cognitive Behavior Therapy

make good decisions (Bush, 2002). In CBT, the therapist plays an active role in helping the individual to solve his or her probl...

Causes of Eating Disorders

still believe that they are not adequate (ANRED, 2003). Interpersonal Factors: Personal relationships with family and others ca...

Psychological Evaluation of Hughes

age 70. He was a legend as well as a mystery throughout his lifetime. He was a millionaire several times over as soon as he inheri...

3 Theorists on Psychological Disorders

Three Perspectives: 10 pages in length. This paper examines the theories and treatments of psychological disorders as viewed by t...

Overview of Paranoid Personality Disorder

and psychosocial development as they can be applied to understanding this disorder. Further, it is also beneficial to consider th...

'Obsessive' Sherlock Holmes

In five pages this paper discusses if maybe Sherlock Holmes had some obsessive compulsive psychological disorders. Three sources ...

Overview of Delusional Misidentification

have surgery or wear masks to look like another. The film Face Off demonstrates how someone could be mistaken for another individu...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Psychological Conditions

of waves. Stevensons grandfather was Britains greatest builder of lighthouses. Since his childhood Stevenson suffered from tubercu...

4 Topics Summarized

In six pages four topics are discussed and include learning disabilities and educational interventions, psychological and educatio...

Psychological Disorders and the Impact of Attitudes That Are Culturally Sanctioned

In five pages this paper discusses psychological disorders and the impact of beliefs that are culturally sanctioned. Four sources...

Examination of Eating Disorders

perfect? What we are seeking is information about is where that internal critic, gets out of hand, and becomes the food Gestapo, ...

The Physical and Mental Disease Known as Anorexia

In five pages the attributes of anorexia both physical and mental are discussed and include cause and treatment descriptions and a...

Stalking Etiology of Erotomania

In seven pages the erotomania psychological disorder is examined as a stalking etiology with supporting evidence from current lite...

Causes and Symptoms of PTSD

In five pages this paper examines Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in a consideration of causes and psychological and somatic sympto...

Mental Illness Definition

In eleven pages this paper discuses how to define mental illness and its psychological basis as well as treatment approaches for v...