Freud suggested that unresolved unconscious conflicts at anal stage of psychosexual development cause fixation that eventually lead to development of obsessions and ritualistic behaviours at later life. To apply the Freudian idea to the given case study, it can be assumed that Diane’s unresolved conflicts have caused a fixation at anal stage of her development. The repressed angry thoughts expressed themselves in Diane’s behaviour resulting in anxiety and fear of stepping on the pavement cracks. From psychoanalytic point of view OCD is conceptualised in terms of constant conflict between feelings of love and hate. According to Freud, mixture of feelings of love and hate that Diane presumably felt for her mother were the results of her obsessional thoughts and fear of losing the mother, and could actually mean an unconscious wish of Diane to kill her mother.
Apgar was born in Westfield, New Jersey, on June 7, 1909, She was the youngest of the three children Her early interest in science and medicine may have resulted from witnessing her eldest brother passing due to tuberculosis as well as her other brother’s struggle with chronic childhood ilnesss. She graduated from Westfield High School in 1925 and entered Mount Holyoke College the same year. There she majored in zoology and supported herself with a number of part-time jobs. Apgar received her AB from Mount Holyoke in 1929 and began her medical training at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons (P & S) Most notable is the fact that she is one of only nine women in a class of ninety. she graduated fourth in her
Understand Mental Health problems Learning outcome 1- Know the main forms of Mental health. 1.1 Describe the main types of Mental ill health according to the psychiatric classification system. Mood disorders - These disorders, also called affective disorder, involve persistent feelings of sadness or periods of feeling overly happy, or fluctuations from extreme happiness to extreme sadness. The most common mood disorders are depression, mania and bipolar disorder. Personality Disorder - People with personality disorders have extreme and inflexible personality traits that are distressing to the person and/or cause problems in work, school or social relationships.
Treatment usually comes with facing many of their fears, and requires a trip to the doctor’s office, which most of them are scared to take. (Tracy, 2012) Treatment can also include psychotherapy and medications such as SSRI’s. Trichotillomania is an obsessive compulsive disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorders are intrusive, repetitive thoughts or images that produce anxiety and/or the need to perform acts or to dwell on thought to reduce anxiety. (Sue, Sue, Sue & Sue) Trichotillomania is the irresistible urge to pull ones hair.
Leshner states, “As with many other brain diseases, addiction has embedded behavioral and social-context aspects that are important parts of the disorder itself” (Leshner). Recognizing addiction as a mental illness can help reduce the health and social costs that are directly related to treating addiction. Research has exposed that drug abuse is a severe health issue, as well as a social issue. Addicts become so obsessed with consuming the substance it causes their immune systems to shut down and causes the addict to be incapable of functioning properly in a social setting. Addiction has severe negative consequences affecting the addict’s mental and physical well being.
Upon his return to England he suffers from hallucinations, he hears voices (especially Evans’), and he believes that the trees have a special message to convey to him. Rezia attempts to get Septimus help by taking him to several doctors. Ultimately Septimus commits suicide rather than let the doctors get to him. Based on the textual evidence it seems that Septimus Smith is afflicted with schizophrenia. According to the American Medical Association schizophrenia is characterized by apparently disconnected remarks; blank looks; sudden statements that seem to spring to the speaker’s mind; hearing voices (often hostile); having hallucinations; having odd physical sensations; creating fantasy worlds; and exaggerated feelings of happiness, bewilderment, or despair.
Mr. Steal Yo' Gurl Mrs. Tsichlis Gold 3 Honors Survey of Lit. and Comp. March 2, 2012 Freudian Psychology in the Metamorphosis Sigmund Freud was a crucial figure in the field of neurophysiology, as he founded many new revolutionary ideas; the conscious and the unconscious mind; the id, ego, and superego; and life and death experiences. He lived around the same time period that Kafka was alive, and thus there are many parallelisms in Kafka’s book, The Metamorphosis.
(2006) states that substance abuse frequently leads to conflict with family members, causing higher levels of expressed emotions, equaling a psychotic relapse. Lastly, substance abuse may further compromise cognitive functioning, which is already impaired in patients with schizophrenia. Other challenges to this population include: patient difficulty tracking or organizing responses to complex questions (Martino et al.,
The disease is scary because our friends and family misunderstand this disease. Everyone thinks that the disease is an emotional or psychological problem and your friends and family think you can overcome this condition by will power. Zieman stated: Bipolar disorder used to be call manic-depressive disorder. It causes extreme changes in mood, thinking, and behavior. There are two phases, a manic phase and a depressed.
We were hustled back to our room, where we waited another hour or so before the ER doctor came to examine me. After his examination, the doctor explained that according to the ultrasound, I was only five weeks along so that’s probably why there was no heart beat on the ultrasound and that I hadn’t miscarried yet. It was a threat of miscarriage. I was confused as I was supposed to be seven weeks, but I listened as the doctor explained that I should rest for few days and see my doctor in three or four