...Personality Disorders-Fact or Fiction? Personality disorders are challenging to diagnose and therefore are difficult to treat; so they shouldn’t be included as a diagnostic category. I will discuss how diagnosis and studying the causation of personality disorders are challenging. Also how treatment of personality disorders is difficult will be discussed to support my argument of not including personality disorders as a diagnostic category. Research information that will support my argument will be discussed also. If personality disorders are to be considered as a diagnostic category, they should have a clear defined criteria of what each personality disorder is. The Challenges in Diagnosing Personality Disorders Distinct care is in command concerning the identification of personality disorders because more misidentifications possibly happen here than in any other classification of disorder. There are various explanations for this. One issue is that analytic standards for personality disorders are not as distinctly explained as they are for most Axis I analytic classifications, so they are frequently not easy to follow in practice or exact. For example, it might be challenging to identify dependably whether a person sustains a given standard for dependent personality disorder such as “has difficulty making everyday decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others“ or “goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support from others...
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...crimes of thievery and escape to New York City. Paul does show a sense of appreciation towards a San Francisco boy he meets in New York, however, to say that Paul has romantic feelings for the boy is farfetched. Cather describes Paul’s encounter with the San Francisco boy as a “champagne friendship,” suggesting a close encounter without implying a sexual tone. Furthermore, it seems to readers that Paul’s interaction with Edwards is similar to his encounter with the San Francisco boy, such as the fact that Paul reveals an openness in communication which he doesn’t show back in Pittsburg. Critic Jane Nardin disputes against Rubin by criticizing him for his inability to view the story from a historical standpoint. Nardin brings to attention the way homosexuality was represented in the late nineteenth century, stating that it is more widely shown in that era as a metaphor for “alienation.” On the opposite spectrum, Rubin views homosexuality holistically, maintaining his stance on the fact that it is because of this exact reason that Paul acts the way he does. Although Rubin does provide some insight into what Paul’s case might be, it is Nardin who truly grasps the condition of which Paul is in. Cather presents Paul as an individual who clearly dislikes his upbringing. In school and in his household, Paul keeps up a front to alienate himself from those around him. In doing so, Paul puts himself further in his state of depression, thinking that life in Pittsburg will always be dreary...
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...people would go to the internet and share and discuss their favorite anime and the first step in making internet friends. At anime conventions, people interact by cosplaying their favorite characters. Friendship, romance, and even marriage may start from anime. INTEREST IN ART People who have interest in anime pursue in the field of art. They desire to draw their favorite anime character. Even people who don’t have much that of a talent in drawing excels by trying their best and keeps on practicing different styles until they found their own style. EDUCATION Many people may think that anime may ruin a person’s school grades, probably some failed, but the truth is anime give ideas to the students since it gives a lot of stock knowledge and facts. It also gives ideas of what the Japanese culture would be like and enriches our view about Japan. Anime also gives us ideas like ‘what would happen if’ when the series is finished which enhance...
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...Most believe that the second someone decides to try a drug they are immediately addicted. However, that is not the case, research has shown that Addiction is linked to way more than just a choice.It is a serious brain disease to do with the level of dopamine neurotransmitters in the brain. People who have an excess or lack of this chemical are most likely to have addictive personality traits.They are likely to use drugs as a way to numb reality and make themselves feel somewhat normal.According to Webster's Dictionary, a disease is, “ a disorder of structure or function of a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms of that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury ” Since the brain in an addictive person already has low levels of dopamine it is considered a disease since it was not caused by any injury to the body. It is only bases on the the chemical makeup of the...
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...Do Violent Video Games Make A Person Violent? Violent video games have been evolving for years. The first violent video game to ever be released was Death Race made in 1976 (Suddath). This game brought a controversy that would follow all video games for years to come. Although many people say that violent video games cause a person to become violent, many people will argue that violent video games do not cause a person to be violent. Both sides of the “violent-video-game” argument, examples to both points being made, and who should not play violent video games will be analyzed or examined in order to determine the effects of gaming. First, many people believe that violent video games do not cause violence. People believe that violence in video games is the cause of violence, but most video games depict and reflect the real world (Rynne). The world is full of violence, and it was full of violence long before video games started to make their way to popularity. People will counter this point and say that violent video games bring stabbing, shooting, running people over, drugs, alcohol, theft, etc… into people’s lives, but if a person turns the television to a news station, he/she will see all of the same things. War games depict wars in other countries, Grand Theft Auto reflects how people in bad neighborhoods can act, and medieval games give people and understanding about the past. People will say that because of these games mass murders will evolve; for example, Sandy...
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...Contents Introduction 2 DSM-IV Criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder 2 Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorders 4 Instruments Available for the Assessment/Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder 5 Problems Related to Assessing and Classifying/Diagnosing 16-20 Year Olds 5 Conclusion 8 Bibliography 9 Introduction I will discuss the problems related to assessing and classifying / diagnosing 16 to 20 year olds with patterns of impulsivity, instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and affect. These criteria are directed toward a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (here forth referred to as the DSM-IV-TR) personalities are defined as enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself. Personality traits are prominent aspects of personality that are exhibited in a wide range of important social and personal contexts. Only when personality traits are inflexible and maladaptive and cause either significant functional impairment or subjective distress do they constitute a Personality Disorder.(Association, 2000) The manifestations of personality disorders are often recognized in adolescence and continue throughout most of adult life. DSM-IV Criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder According to the DSM-IV-TR the fundamental feature of borderline personality disorder is a persistent pattern of “instability of interpersonal...
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...Jekyll and Hyde Personality 1886, was the birth of Jekyll and Hyde, published by Robert Louis Stevenson. Known to be one of Stevenson’s best novels, the novel is about a doctor named Henry Jekyll who struggles with the inner conflict of dual personalities with his hidden evil persona, Edward Hyde. Dr. Jekyll was a prominent doctor who is widely respected in his era. In addition, his friendly demeanor made him well connected and well liked. But despite being so well made, Dr Jekyll was seen spending a great deal of his time battling strong evil urges which he found repugnant for his stature. Believing that two entities were living inside his body, he tries to develop a serum in an attempt to repress such urges, but in doing so, Dr Jekyll unleashed an even more dreadful representation of the pure evil that resided within him, who is known as Mr Hyde. With no moral vindication, Hyde committed heinous acts of brutality and murder with often no remorse. As time went by, Hyde became a larger entity in his body as Jekyll was slowly succumbing to the thrills and immoral freedom that Hyde gave in his rampage. The aforementioned novel was written as a fiction in the Victorian age of the 1800s, but dual personalities are still apparent and very real in today’s context. This behavior is scientifically known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), or better known for its previous appellant, Multiple personality Disorder (MPD). Much like Jekyll and Hyde’s dual personality, these mental...
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...Loneliness and Neuroticism Humans are known for being highly social beings. This is why isolation often leads to an unstable state of mind in which feelings of loneliness may takes over one’s sanity and can sometimes result in negative personality traits like neuroticism, as seen in Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H.. In this fiction novel, we are introduced to the main character as a successful, independent, business woman whose personal details are kept to the minimum. G.H. lives alone and her only company is a maid who lives in a separated room of her apartment. The story begins when G.H. decides to clean her maid’s room. Throughout this scenario, there are several incidents in which G.H.’s reactions highlight symptoms of...
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...contained a lot of frightening and unfamiliar imagery and considered it to be an outside source that compelled him to think this way as opposed to coming from himself; from within. Thinking irrationally, he suspected that his doctors were somehow implanting these thoughts in his brain with the use of hypnosis and telepathy (Meyer, Chapman, et al., 2009). After some additional thinking, Schreber began to believe that his thoughts were instilled within him by God and that is was God’s decision to make him a woman. Although he figured this was beyond human ability and deemed as “miraculous” it still tormented him (Meyer, Chapman, et al., 2009). The text describes Schreber’s case as containing many different personality disorders, or abnormal disorders, such as anxiety and mood disorders. Freud described Schreber’s primary symptoms as paranoid schizophrenia as well as psychosis in nature. Freud came to the conclusion that Schreber’s thoughts and delusions were brought on upon by his rejection and denial of his homosexuality (Meyer, Chapman, et al., 2009). Other psychologist at the time believed that homosexuality was not the direct cause but the mental abuse he received from his father during childhood. His father utilized shame and humiliation to instill doubt and self-esteem issues within Daniel. Genetically speaking, there were no indications that anyone else in Schreber’s family suffered from the same ailments. His frequent delusions and moments of grandeur are considered classic...
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...The parents decide whether to discard the embryo or implant it in the mother's womb. Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project (HGP) was the international, collaborative research program whose goal was the complete mapping and understanding of all the genes of human beings. All our genes together are known as our "genome." The Human Genome Project started in the 1980s as an organized effort to provide the information researchers need to understand the genetic basis of all disease. GINA is the first major federal law to come out of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications portion of the Human Genome Project. This law made sure that people were treated fairly when it came to getting a job and stuff like that even if they had a disorder or disease Literature review Mark Hughes, a pioneer of the PGD process and director of Genesis Genetics Institute says, “It’s technically feasible and it can be done,” adding that “no legitimate lab...
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...τηε Ναρχισσισμ Στυδψ Λιστ. | |Το ϑΟΙΝ, ϖισιτ ουρ Ωεβ σιτεσ: | |http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/narclist.html ορ | |http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/narclist.html ορ | |http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse | ςισιτ τηε “υτηορ∍σ Ωεβ σιτε: http://samvak.tripod.com Βυψ οτηερ βοοκσ αβουτ πατηολογιχαλ ναρχισσισμ ανδ ρελατιονσηιπσ ωιτη αβυσιϖε ναρχισσιστσ ανδ πσψχηοπατησ ηερε: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/thebook.html Χρεατεδ βψ: Λιδιϕα Ρανγελοϖσκα, Σκοπϕε ΡΕΠΥΒΛΙΧ ΟΦ Μ“ΧΕΔΟΝΙ“ Χ Ο Ν Τ Ε Ν Τ Σ Pathological Narcissism – An Overview A Primer on Narcissism and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine Pathological Narcissism – A Dysfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace The Narcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic Leaders Narcissists...
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...They are unable to make conscious decisions on their own therefore they are placed in a psychological state that prevents normal behavior and perception. Slaughterhouse-Five explores the life of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim in a series of arbitrary events. As his life progresses, his insanity begins to progress and reveal more. In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut introduces Billy Pilgrim who is ‘unstuck in time’ and creates Tralfamadore for his positive reinforcement, as someone insane due to the trauma and causes of his war-time experiences. After Billy remarkably returns from World War 2, he is unable to let go of the war experiences he suffered in, which were very traumatizing, He is institutionalized with post-traumatic stress disorder and this was the source to him feeling very isolated and lost. While Billy was being treated in the hospital: “Everybody else thought he looked fine and was acting fine. Now he was in the hospital. The doctors agreed: He was going crazy”... “They didn’t think it had anything to do with the war” (Vonnegut, 100) Everyone but the doctors believed that he was a fine patient. Billy lives through horrible conditions during the war for example when people started dying on the box car and many soldiers in the war often had hallucinations, diagnosed with many problems because of all the traumatic images seen during that time, and must have lost any type of motivation for life and this was the position Billy was in. Being alone and lost must...
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...Some definitions of literary devices, techniques and style from searching via http://www.ferretsoft.com/ LITERARY DEVICES http://mrbraiman.home.att.net/lit.htm Literary devices refers to any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze. Both literary elements and literary techniques can rightly be called literary devices. Literary elements refers to aspects or characteristics of a whole text. They are not “used,” per se, by authors; we derive what they are from reading the text. Most literary elements can be derived from any and all texts; for example, every story has a theme, every story has a setting, every story has a conflict, every story is written from a particular point-of-view, etc. In order to be discussed legitimately, literary elements must be specifically identified for that text. Literary techniques refers to any specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text. Unlike literary elements, literary techniques are not necessarily present in every text. Literary terms refers to the words themselves with which we identify and describe literary elements and techniques. They are not found in literature and they are not “used” by authors. Allegory:...
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...Alzheimer’s - A Progressive, Degenerative Disorder Alzheimers- A Progressive, Degenerative Disorder Imagine a wife and husband being married for 44 years and having one of them not remember who the other is, or their past life together. The film Away From Her (Egoyan, et al., 2006) shows viewers how the disease can greatly impact your life, and how quickly it can form. The film was based off of a short story “The Bear Came over the Mountain” by Alice Munro (Munro, 2013). In both works, the author and the director portray a significant struggle between a husband and wife dealing with Alzheimer’s. Summary of Story In the short story “The Bear Came over the Mountain” (Munro, 2013) and the film Away From Her (Egoyan, et al., 2006), both authors portray almost the same points. The main characters, Fiona Anderson and her husband Grant Anderson, have been married for forty four years. Fiona’s brain has been slowly deteriorating due to her disease, Alzheimer’s. Fiona and her husband decide that she has gone past the point of no return and needs more supervised care. They check her into Meadowlake facility and Grant is told that he cannot see Fiona for thirty days, so she can get acclimated to her surroundings. He returns after the 30 days to find that his wife has forgotten who he was and has connected with another patient named Aubrey (Egoyan, et al., 2006). Short Story vs. Film The short story (Munro, 2013) and the film (Egoyan, et al., 2006) are similar in writing and characters...
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...Justine Laira Gacayan's Personality Report How to read your report Your report describes the strength of your feelings, thoughts and behaviors relative to other people of a similar age, gender and country. Two people may be classified as extraverts, but one will still be more extraverted than the other. Scores are reported and graphed as percentile estimates, so a score of 65 means that you are estimated to be higher than 65% of people. Personality Type Emotionally [B]alanced - 64% 36% - Emotionally [R]eactive [I]ntraverted – 99% 1% - [E]xtraverted [C]onventional – 78% 22% - [O]pen [G]uarded - 40% 60% - [A]greeable [S]pontaneous – 65% 35% - [D]isciplined Your Personality Type is The Producer (BICAS) Producers are emotionally balanced, which means that they are less prone to depression and are able to cope well with feelings of anxiety, anger and vulnerability. Due to their independence and reserve, sometimes the Producer can be perceived as arrogant or unfriendly, however this is merely because they don't require the same level of social stimulation or interaction that others may seek. The Producer generally prefers fact over fiction and security and stability over ambiguity and disorder. Sticking with convention and familiar routines is generally best. With a sense of social responsibility and a general trust in others, Producers are often seen as sincere and generous. However the Producer has a refreshing impulsiveness about them, they tend to...
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