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Genetic Disorder - Breast Cancer

Hecht, 2008). Breast cancer in both men and women is a genetic disorder but it is not necessarily hereditary (U.S. National Librar...

Attention Deficit Disorders

affected children at risk for developing anxiety and depression (Capano, et al, 2008). In general, the behaviors associated with ...

Bipolar Effect on Learning

& Adolescent Bipolar Foundation, 2007). The advanced imaging technologies have allowed scientists to scan the brains of bipolar p...

Oppositing to Medicating Children with ADD or ADHD

with ADHD/ADD has only a very limited effectiveness, and the side effects and risks associated with it are simply too great. The ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Anxiety Disorders

the many different ways in which the disorder can manifest. For instance, it is possible for the disorder to manifest bodily, such...

Carl Jung's Archetypes and Eating Disorders

archetypes can only become conscious secondarily (1981). The archetype is merely an example of a perfect form or prototype (Lohff,...

MPD DID Overview and Treatment

(DID) but the meaning of the disorder is based on the diagnosis that two or more personalities seem to reside within one person. D...

Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment

manual, Bipolar I is a clinical course characterized by one of more manic or mixed episodes (APA, 1994). Generally, individuals wi...

Borderline Personality Disorder and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Treatment

to have their first interactions with a person with BPD as a result of emergency room visits following suicidal attempts. The the...

An Overview of Anxiety Disorders

so they change their everyday activities, in some cases there may bouts of anxiety that lead to intense periods of the person bein...

ADD Treatments

Chung , 1997). Within six years time the name was changed again and is now well know by the acronym ADHD (Calhoun, Greenwell-Ioril...

Psychiatric/Mental Health Web Site Analysis

many other disorders. Given the prevalence of both ADD/ADHD and Depression, this user linked to each of these disorders. The ADD/A...

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...

Conduct Disorder: A Review of the Literature and a Proposed Study

children. When these families perceive a problem they are often reluctant to seek help for that problem because of the labeling t...

Aspects of Body Dysmorphic Disorder

of their unhappiness caused by the supposed defect. Phillips (1991) comments that "body dysmorphic disorder has been colorfully de...

Borderline Personality Disorder

require a combination of therapeutic approaches that may include behavior modification plans, psychoanalysis and even the use of p...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Used in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

a result, more diagnoses have been made (Grinage, 2003). It is now something that is also associated with trauma stemming from chi...

Girl, Interrupted And Borderline Personality

the DSM IV-TR (Therapydoc, 2007). The next one is due sometimes in 2012 (Therapydoc, 2007). It will no doubt change etiologies, di...

Classification of Personality Disorders

may overlap. The groupings would be as follows: Isolated Group: Antisocial personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, s...

ADHD Diagnosis And Assessment

in grades Kindergarten through 8 (Erford and Hase, 2006). It has 24 items that are rated on a scale of 1 to 5, almost never to alm...

Narcissistic Disorders, Theories, and Interventions

In thirty pages the disorder known as narcissism is analyzed in terms of the various psychological theories associated with it and...

Anxiety Disorders and OCD

In ten pages anxiety disorders are examined in a consideration of their relationship to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Eleven sou...

Overview of Gender Identity Disorder

In five pages the various theories involving gender identity disorder are analyzed and include patterns, occurrence, development, ...

Themes of Order and Disorder in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

A paper illustrating themes of spiritual order and disorder in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author dr...