Dissociative Disorder Essays and Term Papers
310 Essays on Dissociative Disorder. Documents 126 - 150
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Gender Differences in Anxiety Disorders
For my individual paper assignment I chose to summarize three articles containing information about gender difference in anxiety disorders. I found three articles that surrounded the information that I had to explain about my research. The 3 article titles that I will explain in this assignment are gender differences in anxiety disorders, gender differences in panic disorder, and effects of gender on social phobia. The first article is explaining my main topic that I chose
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Multiple Personality Disorder
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) was first recognized in the 1700's but was not understood so therefore it was forgotten. Many cases show up in medical records through the years, but in 1905, Dr. Morton Prince wrote a book about MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER that is a foundation for the disorder. A few years after it was published Sigmund Freud dismissed the disorder and this dropped it from being discussed at any
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Is the Media to Blame for Eating Disorders?
Is the Media to Blame for Eating Disorders? Rough Draft One Media, in my opinion, is one of the biggest reasons for eating disorders with young woman in today’s society. Teenagers are under a lot of pressure to succeed but are more worried about fitting in. Many young girls spend so much time worrying about what others think and they desperately try to have today’s unattainable "ideal" body image. They are lead to believe that
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Bipolor Disorder
In today’s society there are many different psychological disorders that people face on a daily basis. Often times the individuals know they even have the disorder until someone else recognizes it. One particular disorder is the Bipolar disorder. It has many different classifications and definitions, symptoms, and treatments. It is very inportant to notice this disorder in its beginning stages so it can be controlled. The bipolar disorder has often been classified and defined
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Teenage Eating Disorders
Teenage Eating Disorders Teenage eating disorders are common especially among adolescent girls as opposed to boys. At this age girls are vulnerable especially to their peers. Eating disorders are a reflection of adolescent egocentrism. Teens have imaginary audiences that they must meet up with the standards. In this case it is girls staying thin because they think that everyone around them is going to notice the 2 pounds they gained over Thanksgiving weekend, when in
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Attention Deficit Disorder
In 1917 and 1918 there was a worldwide outbreak of encephalitis. Many children showed ADD like symptoms afterwards, leading doctors to further speculate that the disorder was the result of brain damage, resulting in perhaps the first names for ADD, Post-Encephalitic Disorder and Minimal Brain Damage. When it was later learned that these children were not brain damaged after all, the name changed to Minimal Brain Dysfunction. In 1937 doctors first reported evidence that stimulant
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Overview
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Introduction Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which is often referred to as childhood hyperactivity, is a severe and chronic disorder for children. It is one of the most prevalent childhood disorders, and affects 3% to 5% of the school-age population. Boys outnumber girls three or more to one. Children with ADHD can experience many behavioral difficulties that often manifest in the form of inattention, being easily distracted, being impulsive, and hyperactivity. As
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What Is Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder?
( What is Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder? You have probably heard and may even have used the term hyperactivity. The notion is a modern one: there were no hyperactive children 50 to 60 years ago. Today, if anything, the term is applied too often and too widely. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) estimates that all teachers have in their classrooms at least one child with ADHD (Simmons, RG. 1993). Actually,
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Bipolar Disorder with Manic Depression
Bipolar Disorder with Manic Depression Case Study 4 Latresa Jackson Abnormal Psychology-SS440 Charitie Fuller December 12, 2007 Bipolar Disorder with Manic Depression What is bipolar disorder; also know as manic-depressive, an illness involving episodes of serious manic and depression with episodes that are like an unending roller-coaster ride form the highest peak to the lowest. Bipolar disorders are of two kind, bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder. With bipolar I disorder is just that
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Genes Associated with Bipolar Disorder
Stated in the John Hopkins Neurology and Neurosurgery journal “ Brain Waves” ( Potash , 2004 ) illustrates the idea which came from German psychiatrist Emil Kraipelin in the 1800’s that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are distinct from each other by visualizing them as two trees in a forest of mental illness. As a result began the separation of the diseases that marks today's psychiatry. Potash also states that "If we knew the genes associated
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Progeria, the Premature Fatal Aging Disorder in Children, May Be Able to Be Reversed Through Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors Treatments
Progeria, the premature fatal aging disorder in children, may be able to be reversed through Farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTI) treatments. Formally known as Hutchinson - Gilford syndrome, Progeria is a genetic disorder that affects 1 in every 8 million babies born. The disorder is known for its unusual appearance of premature aging in children. Progeria was first discovered when it showed up in a child in 1886 by Dr. Hutchinson. The second case was later
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
The mental abnormality Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder has been thought as through the years another chiche chapter in the book of mental malfunctions. However by experts it is considered to be a great risk to the lives of many more adults than people realize. It makes chaos out of everyday routines and puts extreme complication onto the simplest situations (NIMH 2). Understanding this mental illness requires one to know what the ailment is, why people have it,
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How Have Psychological Theories Elucidated the Nature of Anxiety: With Particular Reference to Panic Disorder?
How Have Psychological Theories Elucidated the Nature of Anxiety: With Particular Reference to Panic Disorder Everybody has had experience with anxiety. Indeed anxiety responses have been found in all species right down to the sea slug (Rapee, et al 1998). The concept of anxiety was for a long time bound up with the work of Sigmund Freud where it was more commonly known as neurosis. Freud’s concept of neuroses consisted of a number of conditions
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Bi Polar Disorder
What is bipolar disorder? There are two types of bipolar disorders, there is bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder. Bipolar disorder can also be known as manic depressive illness. Approximately one percent of the population has suffered or is suffering with this disorder. Bipolar disorder affects men, women, and children. Bipolar disorder usually appears between the ages of 15 and 25. A mild form of bipolar disorder is called cyclothymiacs. Symptoms of bipolar disorder
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Psychological Disorders
The top three criteria for determining psychological disorders are deviance, maladaptive behavior, and personal distress. How one defines normal depends on the society one lives in. Although every Culture has ideals of what they consider normal behavior, these ideals vary from one Culture to another . When someone deviates from their respective cultures ideal of normal , They may be labeled mentally ill. The book gives the example of transvestic fetishism, where A man is
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How Are Bipolar Disorder and Depression Linked?
Ashley Kirkman Younger Eng 1113; Section 0356 27 September 2005 How are Bipolar Disorder and Depression Linked? For many, life is stressful and hectic and for a portion of Americans, who lead frenzied lives, this chaos and confusion further fuels the burning fire of psychological disorders such as bipolar, depression, post- traumatic stress disorder, and many others. Two of the most closely related psychological disorders are Bipolar Disorder and Depression. Although these disorders do have
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Addressing & Analyzing the Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder - Adhd
Introduction Psychology contemporarily insinuates itself as one of the most contentious segments of the sector of medical science, this being perhaps particular due to the fact that it primarily bases its research and studies upon intangible and theoretical rather than tangibly physical data. Another factor, moreover, that has tended to be one of the more significant, recent contributors to this contentiousness has been the increased proof of increasingly diverse psychological ailments in consistently decreasing age
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Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety is a normal reaction to a threatening situation and results from an increase in the amount of adrenaline from the sympathetic nervous system. This increased adrenaline speeds the heart and respiration rate, raises blood pressure, and diverts blood flow to the muscles. These physical reactions are appropriate for escaping from danger but when they cause anxiety in many situations throughout the day, they may be detrimental to a normal lifestyle. An anxiety disorder is
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a lifelong disorder, which can cause a person to do things repeatedly. This disorder is identified by two general symptoms: obsessions and compulsions. An obsession can be defines as an unwelcome, distressing thought or mental image. (Schwartz, 1996) It is a thought that annoys you so much that it causes distress and anxiety. Compulsions are the behaviors that people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder perform in an attempt to
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Bipolar Affective Disorder
Bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. History has shown that this disorder can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have had bipolar disorder. It is clear that in our society many people live with bipolar disorder, however, despite the amount of people suffering from it, we are still waiting for explanations for the causes and cure. The one fact of which
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Gender Identity Disorder
(e-mail me and let me know if you use this and how it does) Gender Identity Disorder (GID) As early as the age of four (Vitale, 1996), some children begin to realize that the gender their body tells them they are, and the gender their mind tells them they are don't correspond. The sense of gender and the anatomical sex of a person mature at different times and different regions of the body (Vitale, 1997b).
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Many of us have recurrent thoughts or worries, some people perform repetitive routines that might seem unreasonable; however, because these ideas, thoughts, and habits do not last long and on the whole do not cause distress and dysfunction, they are not classified as obsessions. On the other hand, for individuals with obsessive- compulsive disorder, these worries and concerns resulting in compulsions, can go as far as taking over a person’s life. These persistent obsessions can
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Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders A vast amount of research has been done on the subject of eating disorders and their causes. Many eating disorders have been proven to emerge during adolescence and often serve as the foundations to more serious problems like anorexia and bulimia. This essay will explore the development of eating disorders in adolescent girls. It will show that these disorders are closely connected to the biological and psychosocial changes that occur during the adolescent
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Manic Depressive Disorder
Concept Manic depressive disorder is a chemical imbalance within the brain. This disorder disrupts you mood and causes your emotions to fluctuate. Mood swings. The disorder causes one to experience extreme depression and mania. The intensity of the mood swings vary going from mild, moderate, and severe. Without treatment the severity and frequency of the illness builds up over the years. Non-professionals normally call this disease “manic-depressive illness”. Those in the psychiatric field refer to
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Social Anxiety Disorder
Social Anxiety Disorder 1 Running Head: LIVING WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY Social Anxiety Disorder Amy McCormick Louisiana Delta Community College Psychology 101 Robinson December 7, 2005 Social Anxiety Disorder 2 Social Anxiety Disorder is the world’s third largest mental health problem which affects over seven percent of the world’s population. Social Anxiety is the fear and anxiety one has in a social situation, or the feeling of being judged by other people in public. It
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