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Fight Club/Dissociative Identity Disorder

purchase expensive consumer goods. The stress and psychic pain of this situation causes chronic insomnia. A disinterested and unsy...

ADHD: Causes, Behaviors, Strategies

259). Furthermore, the nature of the classroom environmental and the curriculum can also produce symptoms that mimic those of atte...

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...

North Carolina Sex Offender Registry

sentence; 5. when enrolled in a NC institute of higher education 6. when working in the State for more than 14 days or a period th...

Assessment, Program Development and Program Evaluation for Students with Special Needs

(ODD). Conduct Disorder (CD) The behavior of children with conduct disorder typically violates the rights of others and it can b...

Separation Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD): The Case of "Jordan"

for OCD based on Jordans mothers report that his grandmother likely had the disorder. From the viewpoint of behavioral psycholog...

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...

The Pathophysiology of ADHD

Rubia, Smith, Brammer, Toone, and Taylor (2005) report on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate t...

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...

Gender Identity Patient Disorder Diagnosis, Treatment, and the Film Boys Don’t Cry

by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999, p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically com...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in “As Good As It Gets”

and the animal bond, and there is a crack in his offensive fa?ade that allows him to grow and become at least slightly human (Schw...

Bulimia and rincess Diana

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

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...

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...

The Varied Manifestations and Causes of PTSD

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

BPD Difficlut to Diagnose

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Depression Definitions

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

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 ...

Psychotropic Medications

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

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 ...

Developmental Disorders, Psychosis, and Schizophrenia

are considered "axis 2" disorders by the DSM IV-TR, suggesting their involvement in serving as a foundation for higher-level axis ...

Paraphilias, Learning Theory and the DSM

The learning theory perspective provides a basis for creating functional change when fetishism or paraphilias are particularly pro...