Personality disorders are a class of mental disorders characterised by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating markedly from those accepted by the individual's culture. These patterns develop early, are inflexible and are associated with significant distress or disability. [1] The definitions may vary some according to other sources. [2][3] Official criteria for diagnosing personality disorders are listed in the diagnostic manual of
Middle Childhood Now knowing that I had Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a child, I can make much more sense of the different ways I acted out in my elementary years, and why I was constantly viewed negatively by my peers and teachers. Although there has been much study to the connection between drug and alcohol use in pregnancy being a cause of ADHD in children, my mother never had a history of using either. However, there is also ongoing research in regards to ADHD as a result of high prenatal stress. Prior to my conception, my parents had tried unsuccessfully for 10 years to have children. Fortunately, once I was born, my
141007 R41 John Recabar Profile of a depressed Anna I was depressed earlier this year. Coming from a family that has a history with mental disorder - my sister’s bipolar - it didn’t come as a shock for me to be plagued by the same mental warfare that my sister underwent. My experience with depression was a brief one, having experienced it for only a lengthy week. Anna however, has been battling clinical depression for almost eight years now. Anna has been battling depression since she was ten, although she was only professionally diagnosed when she was a mere fifteen year old.
The second concept, coming out of C.G. Jung's analytical psychology, describes the process in which the individual Self develops out of an undifferentiated unconscious. It is a developmental, psychical process, the process whereby the innate elements of personality, the different experiences of a person's life and the different aspects and components of the immature psyche become integrated over time into a well-functioning whole. [citation needed] There is a region where the two could be said to blur into each other, but it is important to recognize that they are in fact speaking of two different (though related) things. [citation needed] According to Jungian psychology, individuation is a process of psychological integration, having for its goal the development of the individual personality.
It is a doctrine in the philosophy of mind according to which mental states are defined by their causes and effects. There are many kinds of functionalism but all functionalists agree that their general theory of mind is composed of three kinds of clauses. The first clause is composed of input clauses, output clauses, and internal role clauses. Input clauses say what sorts of events cause mental states in people. Output clauses say what sorts of behaviour are caused by mental states.
Chp1. p2). Once one can decipher between what people consider as abnormal we can look at Personality Disorders. “Personality Disorders are enduring patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the
What is dissociative identity disorder? Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a mental illness that involves the sufferer experiencing at least two clear identities or personality states, each of which has a fairly consistent way of viewing and relating to the world. Some individuals with DID have been found to have personality states that have distinctly different ways of reacting, in terms of emotions, pulse, blood pressure, and blood flow to the brain. This disorder was formerly called multiple personality disorder (MPD) and is often referred to as split personality disorder. Although statistics regarding this disorder indicate that the incidence of DID is about 3% of patients in psychiatric hospitals and is described as occurring in
Assignment 2.1: An Altered State of Consciousness What is consciousness? Consciousness is described as the quality or state of awareness, or, of being aware of an external object or something within itself. It has also been described as : sentience, awareness, subjectivity, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind. These are just a few of the many definitions of consciousness. The list could go on and on.
These courses allowed me to be taught by actual elementary school teachers, who have years of experience with working with children, and the knowledge and advice they were able to pass on truly helped me better understand what I was signing up for as an education major, and helped my improve the way I teach so that I could articulate in a way that would be comprehensible to students of a young age. These classes are slowly molding me to become a great teacher. Also, I am doubling majoring in psychology in hopes that it will help me to better understand the mentality of special education students, so that in the future I will be able to teach them in a way that they will be able to grasp. Psychology courses have
For instance, when a person expects to see another in a certain place, they may think that they are seeing them even if they are seeing someone else who looks vaguely similar. Top-down approaches have been used virtually in all features of cognition. As pertains to perception, there are two main theories: they manifest the bottom-up and top-down approaches. These theories are usually presented in opposition to each other. To some extent, they deal with different aspects of the same phenomenon.