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Temple Grandin and Autism Spectrum Disorders

In a paper of twelve pages, the writer looks at autism spectrum disorders. Insights from Temple Grandin are cited. Paper uses one ...

Abnormal Psychology Depression

This all contributed to a lack of stability in his life. He got a job at a printing company in 1960 and within a year, he married...

Borderline Personality Disorder, An Overview

Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) defines borderline personality disorder (BPD) by listing nine diagnostic criteria, which...

Somatoform Disorders and DSM-V

one-third of patients with major depression experience remission using the first medication prescribed. This leads the doctor will...

Fatal Attraction and Borderline Personality Disorder

(BPD) is subject to period of extreme emotional turmoil, as these individuals tend to see themselves in a distorted fashion, which...

Analyzing the Eating Disorder Inventory Test

areas: Drive for Thinness, Bulimia, Body Dissatisfaction, Ineffectiveness, Perfectionism, Interpersonal Distrust, Interoceptive A...

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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

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 ...

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...

Anxiety Disorders and Anxiolytic Drugs

addiction and withdrawal symptoms, most of the current data suggests otherwise. The metabolic half-life of these drugs tend to cyc...

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...

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...

Asperger's Disorder and DSM IV Assessment

However, as indicated in the main heading, this behavior alone is not sufficient to indicate Aspergers Disorder. The fact that Bil...

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

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

Overview of OCD

plans in place which have proven themselves useful for normalizing the behavior and thought patterns of OCD individuals. These tr...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Review and Future Research Regarding Panic Disorder

LITERATURE REVIEW Definitions The University of Texas Harris...

OCD

In seven pages this paper presents a pathological overview of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a consideration of its signs, vario...

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...

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 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 ...

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"...