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711 wordsAll people use defense mechanisms, whether they be consciously or unconsciously. Anxiety may arise from an intense situation or even past experience. It is then the ego's job to displace anxiety so as to protect the rest of the mind. Through defense mechanisms such as sublimation, repression, fantasy, compulsive fun-seeking, and negativism, the ego eliminates anxiety caused by surroundings which in effect tries to prevent insanity. Fantasy is a device used to thwart reality. It involved the imag...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
1,433 wordsI know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. However, I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go. So I wash until the feeling is gone, until the anxiety subsides. Then I feel defeated. So I do less and less, my world becomes smaller and smaller and lonelier by the day (Healthy Place: OCD Com...
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Day To Day Part Of Life
1,057 wordster> What constitutes the 'tribulations of the self' in contemporary society, according to Anthony Giddens? Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer. This essay will seek an explanation of what constitutes the 'tribulations of the self' according to Anthony Giddens (1991). In the first part of this paper, I discuss some central ways language has been viewed focusing the review on social constructivist writings as well as those stemming from the study of human development. In the seco...
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2,952 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites It is impossible to rigorously prove or substantiate the existence of a Soul, a psyche. Numerous explanations have been hitherto offered: That what we, humans, call a soul is the way that we experience the workings of our brain (introspection experienced). This often leads to infinite regressions. That the soul is an epiphenomenon, the software result of a hardware complexity (much the...
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Anxiety Disorders Mood Disorders
1,009 wordsAnxiety Disorder Psychoanalysts believe that anxiety disorders are caused by internal mental conflicts often involving sexual impulses. These impulses cause an overuse of the ego's defense system that fails over time. This shows that the unacceptable impulses the ego has blocked are the generalized anxiety disorders. These blocked impulses cause an unconscious state of apprehension for which the person does not know the cause of. Phobias, however, occur if the person sets the cause of the anxiet...
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402 wordsAnxiety is a psychological state that, if uncontrolled, can hinder a performance greatly. Individuals must be able to cope with this anxiety in a positive manner so that it doesn't consume them and cause catastrophic results. Anxiety as a form of arousal is beneficial if kept in check because it make the athlete aware of what is about to transpire. When dealing with arousal it is important to understand the theories behind it. The Drive Theory states that "as an individuals arousal or state anxi...
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State Of Anxiety Motivation
339 wordsMotivation and Anxiety 1. Motivation has always been considered as very important element of learning process. Practice show that only motivated students become academically successful. Nevertheless, motivation alone is often not enough. Many students are motivated to excel in studies, but they are simply unable to do so, because of their limited mental capability. When this happens, such students direct their motivation inward, which is commonly referred to as negative motivation. From this tim...
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Cultural Diversity And Psychology Counselling
2,500 wordsCultural Diversity and Psychology Counselling Cultural diversity is one of the most important issues that contemporary psychology counselors have to face, since it means that they have to ensure that the methods used for client with one cultural background would be alike suitable for the client with completely different cultural background. Cultural diversity poses a number of problems for professional counselors, however the theories and methods they use do reflect the notion of cultural divers...
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Borderline Personality Disorder Sigmund Freud
7,334 wordsBORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER Copyright 1999 John M Rathbun MD DEFINITION a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affect, and marked impulsiveness, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts HISTORY: this diagnosis has been used over the past 30 years to label patients who get therapists upset. BPD has become the most diagnosed and researched personality disorder. EPIDEMIOLOGY: two or three per cent of the general population are...
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2,122 wordsAsher Grossman History 10 H April, 2000 Dr. Taylor Freud's Theory of Psychoanalysis Freud's methods of psychoanalysis were based on his theory that people have repressed, hidden feelings. The psychoanalysts goal is to make the patient aware of these subconscious feelings. Childhood conflicts that are hidden away by the patient, become revealed to both the analyst and the patient, allowing the patient to live a less anxious, more healthy life. Methods of hypnosis were originally used by Freud to ...
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Digestive Tract Bowel Movements
3,093 wordsIRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME Suffering in Silence Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), is a common disorder of the intestines that affects nearly one out of five people in the United States. According to the book, Irritable Bowel Syndrome &# 038; the Mind-Body-Brain-Gut Connection by William B. Salt II, IBS is the most common functional gastrointestinal disorder. The symptoms include constipation, diarrhea or alternating bouts of both, bloating, abdominal pain and many other problems. Symptoms of irritab...
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Symptoms Of Schizophrenia Obsessive Compulsive
1,875 wordsThere are many diseases and disorders that may affect the human mind. Some of these are serious, while others are minor and may not even be noticed. Some of the disorders and diseases to be covered in this report are delirium, dementia, and schizophrenia, also a discussion of specific symptoms and treatments available for the different disorders. A mental illness is defined as any disease that affects a persons mind, thoughts, emotions, personality, or behavior. For any mental illness, as in a p...
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Panic Disorder Anxiety Disorders
703 wordsFear is an emotion that everyone experiences from time to time throughout his or her life. Fear is part of a biological response to danger. This emotion was programmed into each human being eons ago through evolution to alert us to the presence of danger by releasing adrenaline into our bloodstream therefore causing heart palpitations, sweating, tremors, chest pain, and nausea or abdominal distress among other symptoms induced by adrenaline. Our bodys reaction to fear is called the flight or fig...
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American Psychiatric Association Sympathetic Nervous System
6,427 wordsMind-Body Therapies The mind and body are so completely connected that physical activities such as yoga and dance have healthful effects not only on the body but also on mental ailments such as depression and anxiety. Conversely, mental approaches such as hypnosis and imagery benefit physical problems such as hypertension and immune deficiency. Having an understanding of the mind-body connection helps us to see why CAM interventions prove helpful in the treatment of depression. For example, acco...
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Childhood Sexual Abuse Percent Of People
1,662 wordsYou become terrified for no apparent reason; your heart feels as though it will beat right out of your chest; you sense an overall feeling of doom and you get dizzy. Am I dying, or am I just crazy? If you are crazy, then so are 2. 4 million other people in the United States. Panic disorder, one of many anxiety disorders, is a serious and potentially debilitating illness. This illness is treatable, however, only one-third of those who suffer will actually be treated. What is panic disorder? Panic...
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Anxiety Disorder Antisocial Personality
523 wordsasd Abnormal Behavior- Patterns of emotion, thought, and action considered pathological for one or more of these reasons: statistical infrequency, disability or dysfunction, personal distress, or violation of norms. Medical Model- Perspective that assumes abnormal behaviors reflect mental or physical illness. Psychiatry- The specialized branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) - A ...
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Open Ended Questions American Medical Association
3,833 wordsRELAXATION IN CANCER Introduction Cancer is encroaching upon heart diseases status as the number one killer of Americans. Nearly one million people are diagnosed each year with some type of cancer (Heimlich, 1990) and will undergo chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or a combination as an adjunct to surgery. Many of these patients report experiencing debilitating side effects to these treatments. Not only can the physical effects from the illness and the treatment be quite intense, the emotional and psy...
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Object Relations School Pathological Narcissism
9,879 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites A. The Loved Enemies an Introduction An oft-overlooked fact is that the child is not sure that it exists. It avidly absorbs cues from its human environment. ? Am I present? ? , ? Am I separate? ? , ? Can I be noticed? ? ? these are the questions that compete in his mind with his need to merge, to become a part of his caregivers. Granted, the infant (ages 0 to 2) does not engage in a verbal formulation of these? thoughts?...
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