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    The information gathered from the assessment indicates that Suzy meets five of the diagnostic criteria; in addition to the nine (or more) of the symptoms in any of the five categories of intrusion‚ negative mood‚ dissociation‚ avoidance‚ and arousal. (cite) While running three weeks ago‚ Suzy was assaulted‚ with a focus on being raped as she believes by another runner. Suzy’s immediate exposure to an actual sexual violation‚ as she was directly involved‚ helps to justify the suggested diagnosis.

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    Looking to the body theory to resolve personal identity tells us that we can be who we are because we still occupy the same body. The body theory believes that the only distinguishable thing about a person is their body. Another thought is if the body theory consists of the whole body being what makes a person‚ then what about prosthetics‚ and other appearance surgeries? Would these not alter the being that we once were? I would say that they do‚ and yet we still are the person we once were‚ just

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    question on everyone’s mind being “what is actually going on in this movie?” Since the story is told backwards and is about a man‚ Leonard Shelby (played by Guy Pearce) who suffers from a memory disorder. Nolan and Guy’s character state‚ “It’s not amnesia.” This makes the movie even more questionable‚ because the audience is given another factor of confusion that is‚ can this character be trusted. The way Nolan portrays the joker in the dark night is also typical of the director‚ as the joker is given

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    condition. Stomachaches that cannot be related to anything. Headache a person may think he or she has a brain tumor but doesn’t. Dissociative Disorders Loss of the integration of consciousness‚ memory‚ or a change in the identity of a person. amnesia‚ dissociative fugue‚ and dissociative identity disorder Mood Disorders Problematic social functioning‚ thinking‚ behaviors‚ and physical symptoms Depressive disorder and bipolar disorder. Psychotic Disorders psychological conditions that

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    After reading Stephanie Ericsson’s article titled “ The ways we lie” ‚ I chose to write about delusion. In Ericsson’s article she said that delusion is closely related to other forms of lying such as dismissal ‚ omission ‚ and amnesia. It is a form of protecting yourself from facts that you don’t want to face. Instead of taking a good look at yourself and being totally honest with yourself ‚ you allow logic to go out the window and make up excuses for your actions. You may truly believe what you

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    In the Julia North thought experiment‚ Julia North’s brain is transplanted into a different body. The underlying question arising from this case is does Julia North continue to exist after the operation? In this paper I will explore how the same-brain view‚ the bodily view‚ and the psychological linkage view would answer this question and provide evidence as to why I believe that the psychological linkage view in general and the indirect memory view in particular provide the most compelling answer

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    Shutter Island: Leonardo DiCaprio plays a character named Teddy‚ a disturbed inmate imprisoned on Shutter Island. Through the course of the movie it becomes clear that Teddy suffers severely from hallucinations‚ paranoia‚ and extreme memory loss. In his own mind he believes he is visiting Shutter Island as a detective assigned to find a missing patient and is disturbed by the “insane” people on the island – when really‚ he is the most watched‚ and in fact‚ the missing patient. Throughout the film

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    Anamnesis is the Greek word meaning memory. Amnesia sounds very similar to anamnesis but means memory loss. Anamnesis connects to the Eucharist in many ways. In the Eucharist‚ people are taking in Jesus’ Body and Blood and remembering Christ’s death and resurrection of His salvation. Memory has a deeper meaning in the Church. The Church lives in the memory of the Eucharist through the anamnesis. Through the Eucharist‚ people are proclaiming the work of God to be present in their lives by remembering

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    bike at the age of seven. When he was 27‚ neurosurgeon William Scoville performed an experimental surgery‚ removing tissues from the medial temporal lobe including the hippocampus‚ with an aim to stop the seizures. This resulted in HM’s anterograde amnesia. He was unable to create new episodic and semantic memories. With an MRI scan‚ Corkin recognized that there was damage to the hippocampus‚ amygdala‚ and areas nearby. She investigated the effects of biological factors on behavior and built a correlation

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    “50 First Dates”  Mr. Lanning                                          Patient Evaluation:  Patients stated reason for coming:  Lucy Whitmore is coming to therapy sessions with me because she is suffering from a severe  condition called anterograde amnesia or also known in the movie as Goldfield Syndrome. She  was involved in a traumatic car accident and‚ since then‚ cannot retain any new information. She  can only remember her life up until the accident‚ and when she wakes up every day‚ she thinks 

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