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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...

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...

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...

Perfectionism and the Anxiety Component

In nine pages this paper argues that the individual desire for perfectionism leads to anxiety and manifests itself in eating disor...

Disassociative Identity Disorder and Sigmund Freud

In five pages this paper examines disassociative identity disorder in accordance with the theories of Sigmund Freud. Eight source...

Eating Disorders and the Influences of Culture

The impact cultural influences have on eating disorders and those who are afflicted with them are examined in five pages. Six sou...

4 Topics Summarized

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

Examination of Compulsive Gambling

addiction was a disease of the spirit, disease of the soul; disease of attitudes; or a scientifically defined disorder which cou...

Classroom Inclusion Around the Nation

In a paper consisting of four pages the practice of including students who have emotional or behavior disorders in regular classro...

The Expensiveness, Seriousness, and Commonality of Alcoholism

the social costs." The remedy has been to treat the victims of alcohol abuse rather than to challenge the strong economic and poli...

Language and Development of Speech in Neglect and Child Abuse Instances

In a paper consisting of 9 pages child neglect, mistreatment, and abuse are discussed in terms of whether or not they are responsi...

Intervention Therapy's Causes and Roles in Reactive Attachment Disorder

In seven pages this paper discusses reactive attachment disorder and the effects of family intervention therapy. Eight sources ar...

Media's Role in Teenage Girls with Eating Disorders

A girl or young woman begins to systematically starve herself and sometimes exercise compulsively as well. Her weight falls and he...

Discussion of a Person's Life with Attention Deficit Disorder

In eleven pages Jeff's struggles with Attention Deficit Disorder, which has impacted his life since childhood, is examined in a co...

ADHD Children and Using Family and Group Therapies

age children, considered more than 3 million in the United States alone in the year 2001. Although the disorder has been reported ...

Consideration of Bipolar Disorder

used to describe common patterns within bipolar disorder such as bipolar I disorder where a person may experience manic or mixed e...

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

them from the depths of depression, it also "deadens" the maniac side Of course, Jamison balances her account of the exhilaration ...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Cask of Amontillado' and Narcissism

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

Macon in The Accidental Tourist and OCD

safe with American restaurant choices, avoiding human contact, and the like. What is interesting about this story is tha...

Anxiety and Depression

of worthlessness and despair. There are some sub-classifications which include: unipolar disorder, biopolar, and dysthymia(Deren 2...

Male v. Female Victims of Eating Disorders

"1 teenage girl in 8, and 4% of teenage boys had serious symptoms of anorexia nervosa...

Susan Bordo and Feminine Malaise

it would be quite difficult to effectively heal the afflicted. The goals of treatment are of course to help the client to reduce ...

Shift Work Rotations and Circadian Rhythms

but cant or b) individual knows they must move but give themselves every excuse in the book not to (Circadian Rhythm Room 2002, ...

Media and Body Image

the self-perception and health care of young girls. Hogan notes, with some validity, that media education is important: if the med...

A.E. Kazdin's 'Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence'

Methodology Kazdin all but dismisses the effectiveness of pharmacotherapeutic intervention, contending that there is...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Generalized Anxiety Disorder is feeling much more anxiety than the normal person feels everyday (National Institute of Mental Heal...