I would like to be a psychiatrist when I am older. The reason this job interests me is because I like to help people. Another reason why is because I find things like mental disorders very interesting and I feel like if I enter this field, I will learn a lot about mental disorders and […]
Silver Linings Playbook was a film released in 2012 that examines mental illnesses through the characterization and depiction of Bipolarism. Pat Solatano play by Bradley Cooper in the film lost his wife and job and was just released from a mental institution to return home to his parents. He later acknowledges that this is his […]
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Get startedA lot of people use psychology today in many different ways either it be research or interrogation or even experiments. Then again psychology is the study of the mind and it’s behavior. Psychology also comes with a lot of things called sub-fields including different material. Such as development, health, sports, clinical, and social behavior. Psychology […]
I think that the topic of mental illness is something that many individuals can relate to in this day and age. Though there are works that contain characters with mental illness or ones that we can speculate have a mental illness (ex. King Lear, Ophelia, or the theory that Ariel from The Little Mermaid is […]
This quote is so important in the book because it shows the society of Brave New World so clearly. Everybody is ‘happy’, everybody gets along, and nobody wants to change. In this quote it shows that the Controller Mustapha Mond understands that the society is fragile and hangs in the balance as single change could […]
Everyone around Mary is desperately trying to make Mary stop, but on this long day, Mary chooses instead to numb her pain to escape to a broken reality of the past. O’Neill uses Mary to show a relapse that in a matter of a day makes Mary insane from drowning in the morphine. James Tyrone […]
William Faulkner was an artist at his writing and he used many different tactics to weave a tale and tell a story; one of which is the point of view. In his short story, “A Rose for Emily”, he successfully uses a first-person or people narrative that is evident in the first sentence of the […]
Severe mental disorders, such as bipolar disorder, have become more prevalent in children and adolescents over the last few decades, leading scientists, doctors, and parents to question whether medicating developing minds in adolescents is an effective and safe way to treat these disorders. This topic has remained controversial for years because there is no definitive […]
I took this class to help me to become a better, more empathetic future practitioner. The lessons I learned definitely achieved this goal. Some of the things I learned from the class include, how to be respectful of people’s boundaries, how to make sure that patients are comfortable and relatively unafraid, and how to be […]
Food, is something we all love. Restaurant, a place we all go to sit down and enjoy a meal. Sanity, most of us have it. But have we took a second to reflect and wonder about the people behind the scenes making sure we get fed? Not only that we get fed, but we get […]
The author dreaded going on the trip to Auschwitz, even in the moment when she made plane reservations. She didn’t only dread it for herself, but she also dreaded it for her daughter Daisy. Her daughter was 14, and she knew going on the tour would traumatize her. She questioned why it would traumatize her […]
Even though the future seems uncertain, the decisions that we made today can affect rest of a person’s life. Abortion is not right and I believe it shouldn’t be legal because we are taking away the rights of that future baby who deserves to be born, who deserves to have happiness in his life, who […]
What does the word “bipolar” mean? A man named Gary R. VandenBos, Ph.D. defines bipolar as “ something with two opposites or extremities…”. Bipolar disorder is an episodic illness, where people who are diagnosed with it will experience two kinds of episodes: manic/hypomanic episodes and major depressive episodes. Manic episodes and major depressive episodes are […]
Everyone desires the ability to be independent. Therefore, the minute wellness problems start making it hard to move around and do daily labor it is time to seek professional wellness. Physical therapy helps relieve infliction allowing one to move better. Individuals who pursue occupational therapy right away tend to regain more movement and independence than […]
My impression changed though out the number of times I watched this Ted talk. Each time viewing this video it got harder to understand why this type of illness exists. Jennifer Brea is a very strong woman to be open about her struggles and help others become aware of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Jennifer stated that this […]
If asked to describe a police lineup, most people would describe the NCIS version where the witness stands behind a glass, six suspects walk in, and the witness claims which number is the perpetrator or states that the perpetrator is not present. When the later happens, the investigator tells the witness to take her time […]
The pursuit of happiness is a goal many of us strive for in life. John Stuart Mill and Peter Singer both attempt to tie happiness, in respect to the community or world, to morality. The model of Utilitarianism is too extreme and brings more questions than it answers. I will explain Mill’s and Singer’s utilitarian […]
Abstract Public concerns about sexual offenses have been higher and have called for harsher sanctions and sentences like sexual offender sanctions. Even though there are minimal cases of arrest for sexual offenders, most of the victims report that such crimes are some of the most devastating in their life since they come with large societal […]
Prostitution is to obtain material rewards (money, gifts), in exchange for a price or a cost of acceptance of the contract with the object of sex is not fixed. Simple understanding is to charge sexual behaviour. Traditionally, this has involved some kind of direct physical contact. However, with the revolution in electronic technology and the […]
Rape culture perpetuates the belief that victims have contributed to their own victimization and are responsible for what has happened to them. Behaviors commonly associated with rape culture include victim blaming, slut shaming, sexual objectification, trivializing rape, denial of widespread rape, refusing to acknowledge the harm caused by sexual violence or some combination of these. […]
In Joseph E. Persico’s Roosevelt’s Secret War, FDR and World War II Espionage, he details a President who is unpredictable, manipulative but yet intricately fascinating. As his early New Deal ally Rexford Tugwell observed, “He deliberately concealed the processes of his mind.” His vice president Henry Wallace also concluded that the only certainty in dealing […]
Literary criticism gives readers a chance to dig deeper and find the real meaning behind the authors work. The literary essay A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift is a writing piece a feminist and psychoanalysis critic could only dream of analysing. The feminist theory is demonstrated by the unfair values and titles women are assigned […]
The controversy of animals use in scientific research has given birth to diverse methods of action throughout the years. Various organizations have been formed to find a solution to this animal cruelty issue. The American Anti-Vivisection Society is a national organization that supports healthy and fair animal-human life relationships and strives to abolish animal vivisection […]
The tale of Antigone is one of the oldest pieces of literature that is still being studied today. The play is able to explore the psychology of many different characters as they are all forced to deal with the death of Polyneices. While the differences between how Antigone, Haimon, and Creon respond to the situation […]
What is sex trafficking According to Shared Hope International, sex trafficking can be defined as “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining patronizing, or soliciting of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act where such an act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion”. Most people who end up being trafficked are tricked into […]
Southeast Asia is one amongst the sexual Disneyland spots for sex tourism. In Cambodia, prostitution is prohibited, but it’s tolerated. Where plenty of sex tourist spots which supply young women who wear a mini skirt and smoking cigarettes outside the motels. Although sex selling is prohibited in Thailand. It’s estimated that they have 3 million […]
Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” written in 1890, portrays the patriarchal structure of the 19th century and consequences it had, specifically for women’s mental health. Gilman tells a story of a woman with a “nervous condition” and slowly begins to lose sight of reality, but writing, something that is forbidden to her, is the only […]
The Yellow Wallpaper outlines a story about a young woman who is diagnosed with a “temporary nervous depression” which is described as a slight hysterical tendency. She is told this by her husband and her brother who are both highly regarded as physicians and were very closely connected with her. She is truly cared for […]
I believe Oskar Schindler was a person of concrete and righteous morals. During the savage takeover of Poland by the German Nazis, Schindler used what power he had to protect as many Jews as he could. He risked his life business and possibly his families for a bunch of people who he had never met. […]
The person’s life from prenatal development through childhood nature/nurture influences Human development is a process, which needs to be well considered especially when there is a need to ensure that the lives of individuals are well engaged. Parenting and social interaction influence an individual development process. This means that there is a need to ensure […]
