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The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...

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 ...

A Review of the Article Fasting Girls The Emerging Ideal Of Slenderness In American Culture

of sexual content gives children the wrong impression with regard to morals and values. Indeed, it can readily be argued how the ...

Intelligence and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do well, but always seemed unable to perform to standard: My earliest recogni...

Diagosing and Treating Behavior Disorders

ADHD (Lebanon Township Elementary Schools, nd). Another study suggested that 25 percent of CD kids developed anti-social disorder ...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

become aware that something terribly wrong had happened in its sister tower; when the second plane struck the second tower, there ...

Unattachment Disorders and Children

in Oklahoma, "When an infant expresses rage and feels no relief for his need, he learns that to survive this world, he must contro...

Bipolar Disorder Research and PET

for the extreme shifts in mood, energy and functioning that seem to characterize bipolar disorder (2003). For such illnesses, PET...

Artistic Mood, Manic Depression and Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison

one in which her "periods of high enthusiasms, [were] ... short-lived and quickly burned itself out" (PG). In Touched with Fire...

Clozapine Compared To Effects of Other Pharmaceuticals

Willwerth, 1992). Anxiety and depression are common (Wallis and Willwerth, 1992). Approximately eighty percent of individuals tr...

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...

Sexuality and Gender Dichotomy Deconstruction

the homosexual and heterosexual dichotomy gained acceptance as both sexuality and personal identity became central to our culture"...

The Use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Panic Attacks

completely harmless. In many ways a panic attack is reminiscent of the fight-or-flight response which arises in frightening situat...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Placenta Disorders

be accounted for approximately 15 percent of perinatal mortality (Angelini and Menihan, 1996). The diagnosis of placental ...

Adult Abuse Survivors and Theory

However, the role of temperament and personality is a critical component of crisis intervention, inasmuch as that singular individ...

The Supernatural and Social Disruption in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

secondary characters and subthemes actually deliver Shakespeares real message. The fairies in the play are of particular interest...

Mood Disorders Diagnosis and Treatment

suffer from bipolar disorders (Simon, 2001). For those who do not respond well to the traditional medications offered to stabiliz...

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, ...

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 ...

Overview of Conduct Disorder

forty year period violent crime rose nearly six hundred percent, with most of it occurring during adolescence(Journal, 2002). Ther...

Sleep Problems in Young Childre Study Critiqued

The study itself focused on the sleep pattern of infants in an attempt to determine the development of any possible disturbed slee...

Bipolar Disorder from Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Perspectives

have a variety of manifestations and patients are typically classified as either Bipolar I, Bipolar II, or Unipolar based on the s...

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...

Depression and PTSD Treatment

depression disorder is the post partum depression that often results after a woman has given birth. Post Traumatic Stress Disor...

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...

An Overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

demonize others. Most share an impulsive nature but generally tend to differ in their style of emotional response. Ironically, t...