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War, Memory, and PTSD

that might not necessarily be equated with CIS. However, other more telling symptoms like chest pain, weakness, dizziness, vomiti...

An Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Overview

p. 7) of children and adolescents. Scientists had long suspected that a major component of the problem is a malfunction in the br...

Cognition Theories and Behavioral Disorder Insights

conjunction between visual input and the organisation of complex behavioural patterns. Studies which have compared the higher cogn...

Literature Review of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

and it is this personality that suffers from extremely low self-esteem (Svrakic, 1990). Content (Etiology) Attempts to develop s...

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...

Treating Bulimia Nervosa with Cognitive Behavior Therapy

she might continue to compete in her sport of gymnastics. ABOUT BULIMIA This disease of systematically bingeing and purging norm...

Conduct Disorder from 2 Perspectives

cruel to people * has been physically cruel to animals * has stolen while confronting a victim (e.g., mugging, purse snatching, ...

Conduct Disorder

of garnering information. In other words, incoming information is modified and transformed in the mind into certain data structur...

Pervasive Developmental Disorder and a Group Centered Perspective

to understanding this disorder. Further, it is also beneficial to consider the views of theorists like Erik Erikson, who recogniz...

Article on the Risks Associated with Eating Disorders and the Effects of Family Environment and Gender Roles

suffering from them lack the capacity to understand the grave nature of the effects, but most theorists agree that anorexia nervos...

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...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Incident Debriefing

actually felt the building shake, for example, are at the most risk for the disorder (2001). At the same time, one psychologist cl...

Adult Abuse Survivors and Theory

However, the role of temperament and personality is a critical component of crisis intervention, inasmuch as that singular individ...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Placenta Disorders

be accounted for approximately 15 percent of perinatal mortality (Angelini and Menihan, 1996). The diagnosis of placental ...

The Use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Panic Attacks

completely harmless. In many ways a panic attack is reminiscent of the fight-or-flight response which arises in frightening situat...

Sexuality and Gender Dichotomy Deconstruction

the homosexual and heterosexual dichotomy gained acceptance as both sexuality and personal identity became central to our culture"...

Attention Deficit Hyper Activity Disorder Students and Positive Reinforcement

to a lack of social skills, or rather, the lack of the ability to use the social skills are prevalent in all environments. Child...

'Obsessive' Sherlock Holmes

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

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...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Interventions

In five pages this literature review considers noninvasive treatment of learning disorders, mental retardation, and mental illness...

DSM IV and Characters in the Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

make some conclusions. The DSM-IV diagnostic lists several observable traits usually pertaining to those experiencing a manic epi...

Clozapine Compared To Effects of Other Pharmaceuticals

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

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...

Males vs. Females and Anorexia Nervosa

In a paper consisting of five pages males and females are compared in terms of the implications and manifestations of anorexia ner...

Long Term Effects of Ritalin in Treating ADHD

In six pages this paper discusses Attention Deficit Disorder and the popular treatment choice of Ritalin in a consideration of eff...

Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa are Compared Through Behavior Manifestations and Psychological Processes

In eighteen pages a discussion of eating disorders are discussed in terms of causes, etiologies, social and physical influences as...

Anxiety Disorders and Valium Treatment

In eleven pages this paper reveals how Valium can be used to successfully treat a variety of anxiety disorders. Ten sources are c...

Symptoms and Treatment of Panic Disorder

In four pages this paper examines panic disorder in a description of various symptoms and considers possible effective treatment a...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD

These subtypes are characterized by three core symptoms: Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. In the vernacular of the cl...