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Attachment And Separation

for their future relationships and interactions (Pendry, 1998; Practice Notes, 1997). There are three conditions for attachment de...

Fatal Attraction and Borderline Personality Disorder

(BPD) is subject to period of extreme emotional turmoil, as these individuals tend to see themselves in a distorted fashion, which...

Cronkite on Mood Disorders

difficulty in viewing the behavior of people who suffer from mental disorder, such as bipolar, in terms of illness. Susan Crosby, ...

Abnormal to Norma

the characteristics inherent in personality disorders are present in everyone, just to a lesser degree. Randolph Nesse, a psychiat...

Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Effect on Families of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

patients experiencing either symptoms or full episodes of depression much more frequently than those of mania or hypomania" (Micha...

BPD Difficlut to Diagnose

a relatively new mental illness category. Gunderson (2001) explained that borderline personality disorder "is layered between neur...

The Varied Manifestations and Causes of PTSD

Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) results from a...

Study on Obesity - An Analysis

relationship between childhood abuse and obesity in young adulthood. The abstract of that paper says that the study was of young a...

Bipolar Disorder

year 1650 when Richard Burton, a scientist, wrote "The Anatomy of Melancholia" which was a work that detailed depression. In fact,...

Issues in Psychology

A positive life leads to health in all areas, physically, mentally and spiritually. The negative side is a general lack of consist...

Social Work: History and Application

large, multifaceted group that is its own entity in a sense. After all, we tend to prescribe certain qualities and judgments to so...

DSM-IV-TR Axis 1 Disorders

manual used by psychiatrists, psychologists, and many others who work in the mental health field. This manual is referred to simpl...

Cyber Bullying

properly! Schoolyard bullies have long made lives miserable for their victims who typically endure unrelenting taunting and phys...

Eating Disorders, Body Dissatisfaction and the Media

attempting to do now is to determine what "diverse factors" make these people susceptible to the impact of the media images, while...

When Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder Attempt Suicide

of risk and the impact for families. Research suggests that there is a need to consider the approaches for assessing suicide ri...

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Whole Word Instruction

is an abstract concept that can be interpreted many different ways. The whole word method stems from an understanding of literacy ...

Psychiatric Drugs

is excreted from the body. By the time the drug goes through membranes and organs, less than 100 percent of the drug is available ...

Bipolar Disorder Treatments

improvement, and 57% of those using psychosocial interventions showed no improvement (Keks, 2009). Clearly, the administration of ...

Psychotropic Medications

J. (2009, April 8). When to avoid antidepressants in bipolar patients. Psychiatric Times, 26(4), 5+ Loganathan, N., Lohano, K., Ro...

Depression Definitions

In two pages depression is defined and discussed and focuses on bipolar disorder or manic depression in terms of the condition and...

The Suffering of Anorexia

In seven pages the eating disorder known as anorexia is interpreted as a kind of suffering in terms of its characteristics as a so...

OCD And Environmental Influences

and compromises the overall individuals mental health status. Checking to make sure the light switch is turned off even though th...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

diagnosis. There is insufficient data to asses this criteria. The third criteria is identity disturbance, such as unstabl...

PTSD and its Effects Upon Soldiers' Lives

But all that stress accumulates" (McGirk, 2009, p. 40). With lengthy tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, PTSD is unfortunately...

Bulimia and rincess Diana

considered a condition influenced solely by psychological, physiological and environmental factors, researchers now believe there ...

Multi-Axial Categorization of Psychological Disorders

beliefs. Evans (2006, 37) notes, however, that "The factors that serve to perpetuate an eating disorder may have little to do wit...

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...

Autism and Treatment

that are characterized as "autism spectrum disorders." This paper lists these conditions and then, because it is a short essay, co...

BIPOLAR DISORDER AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT/SOCIALIZATION

bipolar disorder experiences either an overexcited or overjoyful state (manic episode) or a hopeless or extremely sad state (depre...