Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper Matthew Harper SCI/241 Kim Fisher October 21‚ 2012 Body Fat and Eating Disorders Paper Body composition is the proportion of your body when it comes to fat and fat-free mass (Jennifer Scott‚ 2008). If you have a higher proportion of fat-free mass compared to a lower portion of body fat‚ then you have a healthy body composition. However‚ someone that has an excessive amount of body fat is not as healthy and actually has a better chance of suffering from
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view of human nature that is driven by instinct. It is deterministic. The two dominant forces are the life and death forces that Freud calls Eros and Thanatos. The three levels of awareness for Freud are what he called the conscious‚ preconscious‚ and the unconscious. The most important of the three is the role of the unconscious. Problem formation according to Freud occurs when there are repressed memories‚ drives‚ or desires in the unconscious. There is a constant battle between the Id and the
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fearful‚ the aesthetics of anxiety. Through his collection of definitions of the word heimlich meaning canny/homely‚ Freud finds that on one hand can mean familiar and agreeable and on the other‚ what is concealed and kept out of sight‚ explaining that while these definitions are very different‚ examining them in individual instance will make us understand what uncanniness means. Freud follows with the statement that we are naturally tempted to conclude that what is uncanny frightens
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Psych Freud in our Midst a) Sigmund Freud was a theoretician that explored the unconscious AKA the mind. He identified childhood experience as the crucible of character. Freud also invented psychoanalysis which is a form of treatment that a diagnosable disease can be cured by just talking. Without the use of a prayer‚ sacrifice‚ exorcism‚ drugs‚ etc‚ a recollection and reflection can cure it. Cognitive behavior and psychodynamic therapy support the idea of his treatment
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Annie Stenftenagel “Freud is NOT Dead” “He was wrong about so many things‚ but he was wrong in such interesting ways. He pioneered a whole new way of looking at things.” Freud changed the world. His ideas and his theories about human behavior and psychology have left a footprint on our world similar to that of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. James Hansell‚ a University of Michigan psychologist‚ captures this idea in his brilliant two-line depiction of the late‚ great‚ Freud. I find Freud and the work he did
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Thoughts on Freud READING MANY OF FREUD’S THEORIES‚ I CANNOT HELP BUT HAVE AN INTUITIVE REACTION OR AT LEAST A SPONTANEOUS WILLINGNESS TO “SUSPEND DISBELIEF.” (FRANKLAND‚ 2000) FREUD‚ ESPECIALLY IN THE EARLY PERIOD OF HIS WORK DURING HIS DREAM INTERPRETATION PHASE; READING ABOUT FREUD COMBING THE UNCONSCIOUS FOR SIGNS IS A LITTLE LIKE READING ALICE IN WONDERLAND‚ IT MAKES NO SENSE‚ WHAT IS IT REALLY SUPPOSE TO MEAN? WHAT DOES FREUD REALLY WANT US TO BELIEVE? In contrast‚ my own personal
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Outline and Evaluate Psychological Explanations for one eating disorder The psychodynamic approach suggests unconscious conflicts from childhood may be the reason for an eating disorder. As adolescent girls are most likely to have the disorder‚ it suggests that anorexia might be due to fear of increasing sexual desires and starvation is a way to avoid becoming pregnant because one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa is the absence of a menstrual cycle. Another psychodynamic explanation suggests anorexia
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Sigmund Freud (German: [ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt]; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939)‚ born Sigismund Schlomo Freud‚ was an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis. Freud’s parents were poor‚ but they ensured his education. Freud chose medicine as a career and qualified as a doctor at the University of Vienna‚ subsequently undertaking research into cerebral palsy‚ aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy at the Vienna General Hospital. This led in turn to the award of a University
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Sigmund Freud es reconocido como el padre de la psicología. Sus ideas nos rodean a diario ya sea en libros‚ películas‚ etc. A pesar de esto sus teorías y planteamiento fueron y siguen siendo atacados por sin numero de personas. Se tiene que tomar en cuenta diferentes factores que pueden haber influido en el desarrollo de las teorías como las épocas del Modernismo y del Post-Modernismo o filosofías como el positivismo y el pragmatismo. Estos factores pueden haber influido en la teoría
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Sigmund Freud * Born: May 06‚ 1856 in Freiberg‚ Germany * Died: September 23‚ 1939 in London‚ England * Nationality: Austrian * Occupation: Psychoanalyst 1856 - (May 6) Sigismund Freud was born 1873 - Freud began studying medicine at the University of Vienna. 1881 - Freud received his doctorate degree in medicine . 1886 - Began his own private practice. 1893 - Began formulating his seduction theory. 1896 - First used the term psychoanalysis 1900- Published The
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