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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change in DNA‚ usually caused by an error on pair of duplication. I looked up what mental disorder would be that of Sam’s‚ and it came to be a developmental/cognitive disability. A developmental disability can cause individuals many difficulties in certain areas of life‚ especially in “language‚ mobility‚ learning‚ self-help‚ and independent living”. Undefined developmental disability is a neurotic disorder‚ not allowing the brain to develop and mature. These conditions can not be cured‚ but treatment
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from a piece of media will have a psychological disorder. A psychological disorder is defined as “deviant‚ distressful‚ and dysfunctional pattern of thoughts‚ feeling‚ or behaviors” . When authors display a disorder in their characters‚ it allows people to see and get to know these psychological disorders without even realizing. Many favorite cartoons and movies are of‚ or contain‚ a character with a psychological disorder. This research paper
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The biological or medical model approach examines psychological disorders as a type of illness and assumes it is a physical issue. The approach believes that factors such as genes‚ bio-chemistry‚ neuro-anatomy and germs are the causes of psychological disorders‚ and use treatments such as drugs and psychosurgery to rectify them. (Saul McLeod‚ 2008/2014) Anxiolytic drugs such as benzodiazepines are commonly used in the treatment of somebody with depression or bipolar as they increase activity in the
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Bipolar Disorder Tanya Reece PSY/103 December 8‚ 2014 Tricia Ferre Introduction What is Bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder symptoms and warning signs Cause of Bipolar disorder Prevention of Bipolar disorder Thesis Statement Bipolar disorder has a severe impact on the human population that affects individual sleep patterns‚ causes mood swings and occasionally violence. It is a severe disorder that can ruin relationships and lives if left untreated‚ however new therapies and medications can
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Analyzing Psychological Disorders 1 Janise McWilliams Psy/240 07/13/2014 Professor King Analyzing Psychological Disorders 2 My understanding of Schizophrenia is what they call splitting of the psychic functions‚ back in the early years of the 20th century it was described as to what was
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Discuss Psychological explanations of one eating disorder. (8+16) Psychological explanations of obesity include the psychodynamic and the behaviourist approach. Behaviourism suggests three means by which obesity may occur; classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning and social learning theory. There is a great deal of evidence for the behavioural explanation. Classical conditioning is where eating becomes associated with other behaviours that are often routine‚ leading to eating when not hungry
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probable that only one of those two will face post-traumatic stress disorder. Why is that? There is many factors that could influenced that‚ those include background and previous experience5. “Davidson et al. (2007) and Breslau et al. (1998) estimate that PTSD affects 15-24 per cent of individuals who are exposed to traumatic events. (…) PTSD is complicated by the fact that it frequently occurs in conjunction with related disorders such as depression‚ substance abuse‚ problems of memory and cognition
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The earliest experiences I had with mental disorders came from within my own family‚ my aunt always felt troubled. When we would go to the grocery store she would often believe that others were talking about her‚ even when all evidence was to the contrary. I would ask my mother about this and she explained that she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia at the time I had only the most rudimentary understanding of what this disease does. My aunt suffered every day until her dying day‚ whether it was
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Here are the requirements for this exercise. You are to use the Library’s databases in Psychology (see the topic above on Finding Psychological Research-based Articles). Then‚ please post the following: 1. Tell us your search topic and how many results you found. i used PsycARTICLES and my search topic was PTSD and Sexual Abuse. First i just put PTSD and 673 results came up‚ so i put in sexual abuse which narrowed it down to 46 results. 2. Is the article you selected an empirical research
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