Actually sex is an impulsive desire which cannot be tamed while marriages try to confine these desires only to the married partner. Thus this restriction on the fundamental instinct of human beings creates a lot of sexual frustration in them. This often puts a spouse in a state of depression. A research carried out by Buss and Shackelford of the University of Texas at Austin revealed that around sixty percent men and fifty percent women are involved in some kind of affair during their marriage (193-221). As a result, the problem of spousal infidelity arises which is one of the major causes of divorce all around world.
The life of Marilyn Monroe is one that shows a lot of struggle, independence, and pride, but also pain, addiction, and immorality. Many people have analyzed this actress, relating problems in her life to her childhood, and giving psychological viewpoints on why her life took the course that it did. One person who never analyzed this famous icon was Sigmund Freud, who would be able to shed a great deal of light on her life and problems. By using the Freudian theory, we are able to understand to a certain point why Marilyn did some of the things she did. We can understand this by looking at ego and super-ego formation, the oral, phallic, and anal stages, certain defense mechanisms she used, and also through symbolic behavior and parapraxis.
David came from a troubled background moving from squat to squat and had witnessed his mother, Moira, being physically and sexually abused. David’s mother turned to prostitution in order to pay for her drug addiction. pter sister was also sold for sex to pay for Moira’s drugs. David and his sister became’ lost children’ and severely neglected, often starved and physically beaten. After the death of his mother, Social Services stepped in, unfortunately, efforts to keep the siblings together, was thwarted due to David’s challenging behaviour including his sexually harmful behaviours.
Demi said suffered from bullying and weight issues since she was a young girl and this caused her to do things that made her have a nervous breakdown. Demi starved herself and became anorexic and bulimic. In addition to this, Demi felt like she wasn’t worthy enough and as a result she decided to take it out on herself and harm herself. Demi also admitted that she did take drugs and used to drink large amounts of alcohol; she also revealed that while she was in the treatment centre she was
Psychologists have attributed this to the fact that the privation prevented her from forming an attachment or learning any language skills during the critical period of her life, up to two and a half years of age. A further case study was that of the Czech twins who were locked up by their stepmother. This case differed slightly as they were discovered at the age of seven; and as they had been kept together psychologists believe they may have been able to form some sort of attachment with one another. When they were discovered the twins were unable to talk, however after spending several years with the people who adopted them, the twins went on to become and IT technician and a trainer, and live normal and happy lives. This suggested that the privation for the twins was not long lasting, as they were intellectually equal to most others and had no problems forming relationships.
“Applying aversive psychological tactics in a random and variable manner together with some periods of withdrawal of the aversive stimuli and substitution of pleasure or loving behavior is known to create psychological dependency, learned helplessness, or other deleterious conditions for victims” (Walker 145). Battered women cry and start to lose respect for the abuser. The woman will feel guilty all the time. It can provoke a woman to feel ashamed and she would have low self-esteem. Women who are battered can develop mental trauma.
Length of Confinement “Genie” spent all thirteen years of her life being physically, verbally, and mentally abused. Although she was taken care of and made progress during the time of the intervention, after four years of progress and studies, the hospital treating her lost funding and she was returned to her birth mother who felt it was too hard to take care of her. “Genie” was placed into foster and bounced around for years, where she was abused further and ultimately ended up in an adult foster care program in California. Agents of Socialization The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) funded the research and care for “Genie” at UCLA. A team of psychologists and teachers helped care for her and worked on emerging her into society.
As an introduction to the practical relevance of false memories Steffens & Mecklenbrauker (2007) describe a woman who has been in therapy for many years because “she has trouble trusting men; has panic attacks; has a distant relationship with her father; and suffers from disturbing nightmares” (p 12). However, at some point in the therapy she “recovers” faint memories of early childhood abuse by her father. She is not sure if these are old memories or reconstructed memories of her beliefs and feelings. Yet, the self help literature for victims is quite clear. For instance, “you must believe that your client was sexually abused, even if she sometimes has doubts because no one invents abuse” (Steffens et al, p 12).
Sexually abuse can include: Incest, Rape, Intercourse, Oral-genital contact, Fondling, Sexual propositions or enticement, Indecent exposure, Child pornography and/or Child pr Child abuse is widespread; an epidemic. Although untold numbers of abused kids are losing their innocence and being forced leaves their childhood well before their time, we forget that fact. Many of us don’t even realize it. The daily rigors of providing the necessities and a happy life for ourselves and families push painful thoughts of children of abuse to the far corners of our mind. What follows here are some hard to face facts.
Some of the things that women have or do face and cause them to abuse drugs are being physically or sexually abused as a child or even as an adult, being victimized as an adult by some sort of domestic violence, and having a spouse or partner that also partakes in abusing drugs. In todays world most recovery programs are designed for the male process of recovery and there are numerous problems with accessing programs for women; especially women with minor children. Although a study found that white women and women of color abuse substances at similar rates; women of color are disproportionately tested for drug use and receive more child protective services interventions. Prevention of substance abuse by women will take more than just education; it’ll take a conscious effort to take control of this problem. Women who abuse drugs usually abuse more then one.