A Questionable Drug: Depo Provera For decades‚ Depo Provera has been used around the world‚ not always for the same purpose. The drug‚ medroxyprogesterone acetate‚ more commonly known as Depo Provera‚ was originally made to be an injectable form of long-term birth control. When Depo was first approved in the US as an effective form of birth control this seemed liked a miracle drug for women. You would not have to remember to take a pill every morning‚ fewer side effects‚ even a shorter
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http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/plaut.htm Criticisms of Freud’s theory There have been criticisms of psychoanalysis from every imaginable angle. It has been equally strongly defended‚ and has held up very well under fire. Two common criticisms‚ espoused by laypeople and professionals alike‚ are that the theory is too simple to ever explain something as complex as a human mind‚ and that Freud overemphasized sex and was unbalanced here (was sexist). My opinion is that these criticisms are
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form of treatment is psychotherapy: such as mental personality treatments‚ erectile reconditioning‚ personal expressive-supportive psychotherapy and hypnosis. Medications such as antidepressants‚ long-acting gonadotropin-releasing hormones (medical castration)‚ antiandrogens‚
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Jewish Children’s Struggle Although life was bad for Jewish adults during WWII‚ it was harder for children to survive. They were forced into hard labor‚ put into hiding‚ and were the victims of of horrendous experiments. The Germans killed almost 1.5 million children in total‚ including a million Jews‚ thousands of Romani kids‚ and mentally and physically disabled children. Children were killed when arriving in camps‚ killed immediatly after birth‚ were hidden in camps‚ put to work in hard labor
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The social learning theory‚ psychoanalytic theory‚ and the psychosocial theory are developmental theories. These theories are helpful for parents to understand the growth of a child through their stages of development. In so many circumstances parents don’t have the slightest clue as to why a child behaves irrationally‚ Some children have behavioral attitudes that are from cultures that are different‚ and children who are mentally abnormal are an exception to theoretical rules. Developmental theories
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completely prohibit the killing of animals; he prohibited killings for sacrifices‚ he advocated restraint in the number that had to be killed for consumption‚ protected some of them‚ and in general condemned violent acts against animals‚ such as castration. However‚ the edicts of Ashoka reflect
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autonomy the quality of undertaking‚ planning‚ and attacking a task for the sake of being active and on the move. The child feels guilt over the goals contemplated and the acts initiated in exuberant enjoyment of new locomoter and mental powers. The castration complex occuring in this stage is due to the child’s erotic fantasies. A residual conflict over initiative may be expressed as hysterical denial‚ which may cause the repression of the wish or the abrogation of the child’s ego: paralysis and inhibition
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muses‚ documents the creation of the gods from the macro-level‚ universe‚ to the micro-level‚ demigods. The main thread throughout this epic about the creation is the level of discord among the gods and vying for power and ultimate control. From the castration of Ouranos to Zeus banishing his father Cronus into the abyss of Tartarus‚ the strife or desire for control is woven
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The Femme Fatale: Ambiguity and Death In cinema‚ the femme fatale is an enticing‚ exquisitely beautiful‚ erotic character who plays the ultimate trick of nature: she displays her beauty‚ captures the man and goes in for the kill. Unfortunately for this poisonous flower‚ male dominated western society interferes and kills the female predator in the end. In western cinema‚ the femme fatale can never survive‚ and can never “win” in the battle of the sexes. But why must this be so? What makes the
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Electra complex and of the Oedipus complex; his and her key psychological experience to developing a mature sexual role and identity. Sigmund Freud instead proposed that girls and boys resolved their complexes differently — she via penis envy‚ he via castration anxiety; and that unsuccessful resolutions might lead to neurosis‚ paedophilia‚ and homosexuality. Hence‚ women and men who are fixatedin the Electra and Oedipal stages of their psychosexual development might be considered “father-fixated” and “mother-fixated”
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