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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...

Bipolar Disorder Overview

or depression. It usually begins, or shows initial signs, during adolescence or early adulthood. It can, however, start in ear...

War, Memory, and PTSD

that might not necessarily be equated with CIS. However, other more telling symptoms like chest pain, weakness, dizziness, vomiti...

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...

Borderline Personality Disorder and Social Perspectives

BPD as a result of emergency room visits following suicidal attempts. The theoretical basis and etiology of the disorder is relat...

ADD and Nutritional Supplements

II. CAUSES Assessing the cause and extent of ADD, as well as determining the applicable methods of nutritional supplementat...

Conduct Disorder

of garnering information. In other words, incoming information is modified and transformed in the mind into certain data structur...

Pervasive Developmental Disorder and a Group Centered Perspective

to understanding this disorder. Further, it is also beneficial to consider the views of theorists like Erik Erikson, who recogniz...

Conduct Disorder from 2 Perspectives

cruel to people * has been physically cruel to animals * has stolen while confronting a victim (e.g., mugging, purse snatching, ...

Overview of Paranoid Personality Disorder

and psychosocial development as they can be applied to understanding this disorder. Further, it is also beneficial to consider th...

Treating Bulimia Nervosa with Cognitive Behavior Therapy

she might continue to compete in her sport of gymnastics. ABOUT BULIMIA This disease of systematically bingeing and purging norm...

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...

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...

'Obsessive' Sherlock Holmes

In five pages this paper discusses if maybe Sherlock Holmes had some obsessive compulsive psychological disorders. Three sources ...

Depression and PTSD Treatment

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

Treatment of Schizotypal Personality Disorder

In eleven pages this paper examines control of Schizotypal Personality Disorder through treatment with counseling and medication. ...

Concepts Related to PTSD

the event, whether the victim can still clearly "see" the perpetrators, or if a certain degree of either denial or distortion take...

OCD General Overview

In six pages obsessive compulsive disorder is examined in an overview that includes causes, incidences, and treatment options. Ni...

Overview of Skin Disorders

and keratin fragments to adhere to the sebum and block the follicle opening. Bacteria trapped with free fatty acids within the fo...

3 Theorists on Psychological Disorders

Three Perspectives: 10 pages in length. This paper examines the theories and treatments of psychological disorders as viewed by t...

ADHD from a Mother's Perspective

In this paper consisting of eleven pages the mother of a child recently diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is...

Literature Review of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

and it is this personality that suffers from extremely low self-esteem (Svrakic, 1990). Content (Etiology) Attempts to develop s...

Two Articles on Disabled Veterans

In six pages 2 articles pertaining to veterans with disabilities are compared with a discussion of post traumatic stress disorder ...

Public School Students and Nonverbal Learning Disorders

In six pages this paper examines public school students and nonverbal learning disorders that affect about 10 percent of LD childr...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy

In fourteen pages and 4 parts this paper examines PTSD and Albert Ellis' REBT in a study recommendations for the combination of Po...

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

range from simple personal habits like repeating words in certain situations, to more serious conduct, such as excessive hand wash...

Stem Cells and Their Potential

("paralysis," 1996). As far as Takayasus arteritis is concerned, it is a disorder marked by progressive closure of multiple arter...