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A Review of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder As Reflected in the Movie Good As It Gets

habits are partially responsible for keeping him at arms length from the rest of the world. Considered for decades to be a diseas...

A 'Norman Bates' Analysis

studying the film Psycho, does Norman represent a typical psychopath? First, does Hitchcocks film create an accurate repres...

Grammar Impact of Environmental and Mental Factors

language itself and the exact characteristics of that language. Some researchers contend that basic linguistic organization...

Comparison of McCarley, Hobson, and Freud on Dream Theories

activity of the brain, especially in terms of physiological linkages that exist between consciousness and extreme mental disorders...

Interpersonal Conflict and Resolution Case Study of Mental Wellness and Deviance

is interesting to note is the extreme to which Johns antisocial behaviors and his substance abuse have determined his job path and...

Mental States' Presence and Artificial Intelligence

In five pages this paper considers a person with an electronic brain and whether that can be regarded as possessing a mental state...

The Mind, Functionalism, and Consciousness

This paper provides a synopsis of the views of Paul Churchland and Todd Moody as they apply to elements of human mental evolution,...

Nature of Mental States by Hillary Putnam

In three pages this paper examines the theories of philosopher Hillary Putnam as represented in the text. There are 3 sources cit...

Elderly Mental Impairment, Illness and Medication Impacts

In ten pages this paper examines how the mental impairment of senior citizens over age 70 can be attributed to the medications pre...

Homeless and Mental Health Services

In five pages this paper examines the necessity for mental health services and facilities for homeless individuals. Ten sources a...

Overview of Depression

In ten pages depression is defined in terms of its various causes and treatment forms with frequent reference made to DSM IV or th...

Report on Depression

In eighteen pages this report examines depression in terms of types and treatments and includes current research on this mental di...

Emotional Health and Personality

In eighteen pages current literature is reviewed in a discussion regarding the mental health impacts of personality types and also...

Treatment and Evaluation Methods

In five pages these student submitted fictitious case studies examines how to evaluate treatment methods in clinical environments ...

Overview of Line Dancing

feel like it. In addition, individuals get the opportunity to receive free dance instruction, simply either by following the move...

Biblical verses Christian Variations in Mental Health Counseling

This five page paper broaches the subtle yet important differences between these counseling approaches, differences that can be so...

Sanity, Insanity and Society From A Swiftian Viewpoint

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

'Tis a Pity She's a Whore' by John Ford and the Madness of Giovanni

In seven pages this seventeenth century work is examined in an analysis of Giovanni's mental disintegration. There are no other s...

Mental Illness in Shelley and James

This paper examines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Henry James' Washington Square in terms of how Szacz's The Myth of Mental Illn...

Mental Illness and Social Theory

In five pages this paper discusses mentally ill individuals in a consideration of social perceptions and their impact upon treatme...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Character of Ophelia

defines her character. She is, in essence, a human mirror, used to reflect the desires of others (Dane gdane.html). Her inabilit...

Therapist Suffering from Mental Illness and Mary Redfield Jamison's An Unquiet Mind

way that conformed with the basic characteristics of manic depressive illness. "My manias, at least in their early and mild forms...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Mental Changes Ophelia Undergoes

In ten pages this paper discusses Ophelia's deteriorating mental condition as she slowly inches towards madness. There is the inc...

Mental Health Parity and Nebraska Legislative Bill 255

In twelve pages this paper discusses the 'Mental Health Parity' law or Nebraska's Legislative Bill 35 in a consideration of its re...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Mental Illness

In twelve pages mental illness is examined from the perspectives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in terms of labels suc...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...

Mind and Body Connection of Thomas Szasz

In five pages this research paper examines the correlation between the mind and body within the context of Dr. Thomas S. Szasz's T...

Descartes' Psychology and the 'Conscious Mental State' Theory of William James

This paper examines the 'constant mental state' theory of psychology William James created to improve the theoretical limitations ...

Concepts of Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Immanuel Kant

de La Mettrie - Mental Activity In "Man a Machine" (1748), de La Mettrie says: "Let us start out then to discover not...

Movement, Evolution, and Functional Integration

of one being entailing the improvement or the extermination of others" (Darwin, 1998; p. 568). He later applied the same principl...