Analyzing Psychological Disorders Your Name July 9‚ 2011 PSY 240 Final Paper I just wanted to thank you for considering me for the position of a psychologist. It was a pleasure meeting with you today. As a psychologist‚ we are expected to know all of the disorders that are out there and know how to help the people who have these disorders. With this in mind‚ I would like to discuss the disorder of schizophrenia in the first part of this paper. I will discuss what area of the brain
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Analyzing Psychological Disorders PSY 240 August 11‚ 2013 Marie Dube ’ Analyzing Psychological Disorders Today I will be discussing schizophrenia‚ the associated symptoms‚ the areas of the brain that it affects‚ the neurological basis of the disorder and the various treatment options that are available. Afterwards I will be reviewing two separate case studies‚ the first will be of a 33 year old man has been through a variety of inpatient treatment facilities for his alcoholism‚ and
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Discuss the use of psychoanalysis to treat psychological disorders The aim of psychoanalytic therapy is to uncover the repressed material to help the client come to an understanding of the origins of their problems. There are several techniques available to the therapist: free association‚ Dream analysis and projective tests. Free Association Within free association the client is encouraged to express anything that comes into their mind. Each incident may then‚ through free association of ideas
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The name of this movie is ‘The Soloist’ The psychological disorder of this movie is it shows the mental illness of paranoid. He hears voices (sound-related mind flights) putting forth offending expressions and letting him know he’s awful. His talking is conflicting. He can’t not concentrate on one point. He hops from discussing Beethoven to a passing squad car to the surroundings of the passage to the LA times building to Steve Lopez then gazes toward a plane an inquires as to whether Lopez is guiding
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Psychology Research Paper People are constantly diagnosed with psychological mental disorders on an everyday basis. A common psychological disorder in today’s society is posttraumatic stress‚ which is a health effect diagnosed with flashbacks. It is a normal disorder people encounter in an everyday basis. We face hardships in life that sometimes may be difficult to control. Everyone may be diagnosed with this mental disorder‚ depending on what they have been through in life which is known as
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Outline and evaluate psychological explanations for OCD (8+16 marks) One psychological explanation for OCD is the behavioural approach. The behavioural approach breaks obsessions and compulsions into separate categories. Mowrer (1960) suggests that the acquisition of fear and anxiety is a two-step process in which firstly the neutral stimulus is associated with anxiety through classical conditioning for example a child being told that food which has been dropped on the floor is disgusting‚ this
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Analyzing Psychological Disorders Heather Michaud Psychology: The Brain‚ The Body‚ and The Mind: All Together Now 2/21/2010 Kim Piowarsy Disorders: Part A A good psychologist should have the understanding of how the body and mind work together. What makes a person who they are and how they operate. Psychologists are the ones that help others to understand what disorders are and how to handle them in difficult situations. In this essay it will be discussed what the understanding
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Dugond Maybe‚ as a child‚ everyone of you has wanted to see a real mermaid‚ because of all the stories you’ve heard for them. Surely you have imagined this sea creatures as a very beautiful ones‚ and you’ve thought they aren’t real. Actually they exist‚ but their real appearance isn’t so magical as you dreamt. The dugong is a large marine mammal. The word "dugong" derives from the Tagalog term dugong‚ meaning "lady of the sea". These enormous vegetarians can be found in warm coastal waters
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When it was first described‚ the disorder did not have its own category‚ and the term “borderline”‚ initially designated patients‚ who were at the border of two diseases: not sufficiently sick to be considered psychotic‚ yet too disturbed to follow a psychoanalytic treatment for neuroses (Bateman). It was Adolph Stern‚ an American psychoanalyst‚ who coined the term “the border line group” in 1938‚ first described most of the symptoms and suggested possible causes for its development (Gunderson)
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Now‚ March 18.. Clunk‚ clunk‚ clunk‚ clunk. I could hear the tapping of the Captain’s peg leg on the deck as he paced. I could also hear the slightly lighter thumping of my mother’s heavy boots as she took baskets of herbs up and down the stairs. The boots had originally belonged to Father‚ but Mother used them now‚ calling them more “seaworthy” compared to the delicate canvas boots that she used to wear. When Mother and I joined the Silent seven years ago‚ I was surprised as she almost immediately
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