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Multiple Personality Disorder And Consciousness

(Sancar, 1999). It often begins as a defense mechanism to escape the pain of what is happening at the moment but as this defense i...

Substance Abuse And Dual Diagnosis

with mental illnesses may reach out to drugs or alcohol to ease the pain they are feeling. It becomes very difficult to separate t...

Bipolar Disorder II And Substance Abuse

that may trigger a Bipolar incident, many of these also trigger using substances. Oliver (2007) identified twelve different "Trigg...

Disorder and the Chain of Being in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

and "too full of... kindness" (I.ii.77, I.v.18). Once Macbeth steps outside the bonds of the social order by killing Duncan, howev...

The Challenge of Categorizing Psychological Disorders

with "conscious awareness or memory", a state in which one can often carry on an active life about which one remembers nothing at ...

Psychological Disorders: Categorization and Classification

is used to categorize symptoms and disorders to aid in a standardized diagnosis between professionals. This has led to an industry...

Psychopharmacology and GAD

anxiety disorder is prevalent in our society. It is important for all clinicians to have a firm grasp on this disorder as well as ...

Conversion Disorder

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

Suicidal Ideation Not Necessarily Associated With Bipolar Disorder

benefit from the combined benefits of pharmacotherapy and psychosocial therapy. Inherently associated with suicidal tendencies, b...

Mood Disorders and the MMPI Diagnostic Tool The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the Diagnosis of Mood Disorders

allow a therapist to more fully understand their mental capacities and state. Testing is important as well in analyzing an indivi...

Nutrition Therapy/Neurological Disorders

the calcium gradients of the muscle" also plays a role in loss of muscle contractility (Burnham, Moss and Ziegler, 2005, p. 1818S)...

"A Beautiful Mind" - Six Concepts

the disease from ultimately overtaking his very being; rather, in a quirk that even science cannot fully explain, he is able to se...

OCD: Biological Connection

Checking to make sure the light switch is turned off even though the light bulb is not illuminated, locking and unlocking doors se...

Assumptions About The Male Gender And Eating Disorders

eating disorder can affect those who are average-sized, as well. It is estimated that one to two percent of American adults are b...

Creativity And Mood: Research Review

linked to creativity through a common underlying style of thought. In particular in writers and poets, a focus on the self and one...

Learning Event/Math Lesson Plan for 5th Graders with ADHD

cycle. Description of learners: There were 98 students in total enrolled in Armels fifth grade during the 2007-08 school year. T...

Learning Event/Math Lesson Plan for 5th Graders with ADHD

cycle. Description of learners: There were 98 students in total enrolled in Armels fifth grade during the 2007-08 school year. T...

Cognitive Therapy With Iraq Veterans

therapy is a particularly useful approach in helping Iraqi war veterans deal with - and ultimately put aside - the intrusive prese...

Long-Term Risks Associated With Childhood Sexual Abuse

will make up for what the sexual abuse compromised during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix t...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

Addiction Transfer Disorder & Gastric Bypass Surgery

addicted to something else such as alcohol, gambling or compulsive shopping (Spencer, 2006). The realization that this is a proble...

Panic Disorder and Marriage Therapy

for no real reason. Symptoms can include: Trembling...

Hamlet and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

Borderline Personality Disorder

reckless driving, overspending, stealing). [Again, not including suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5] (Ame...

Sickle Cell Disorders

circulation problems (Bennett, 2005). When oxygenated properly, the cells may return to the normal round shape, unless they are al...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Cognitive Therapy

or a loved one; these fears often present themselves as disturbing thoughts (Definition of obsessive-compulsive disorder, 2002). T...

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP): Treatment Of Attachment Disorders In Children

emotional growth and learning [through] a short term effort between a therapist and a horse professional [whereby] the participant...

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...

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Symptoms, Treatment and Society’s View of Sufferers

life, though they may never be completely free of the disease (Wilkins, 2007). Its important to recognize that OCD is different f...