Essays Tagged: "Psychiatrist"

Lucid Dreaming, Asleep and Aware

ar too unusual tobe real (Blackmore 362). The actual term lucid dreaming was first used by the Dutchpsychiatrist Fredrick van Olen in 1913. It simply means 'clear dreaming' (Blackmore363).Surveys and ...

(5 pages) 68 0 4.0 May/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Causes and Treatments for Anorexia

uld consist of a doctor that would treat the medical problems that were brought up by starvation, a psychiatrist and a dietitian. And it is always very important to know that anorexia does not only af ...

(4 pages) 153 1 4.6 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Summary of the novel "Ordinary People"

ly cured, he is by no means emotionally cured, and at the request of his father, he begins to see a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger. He tells Berger that he doesn't think highly of psychiatry, but he wants B ...

(4 pages) 67 0 3.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Comparing Todays music with the THEME of Catcher in The Rye

to where people can almost do just about anything their heart desires while listening. According to psychiatrist daily, music has the power to in tune our mind, with our subconscious, self-dormant, hi ...

(4 pages) 40 0 4.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Article about lax gun laws in America.

family's considerable wealth on her multiple million dollar business ventures. Although I am not a psychiatrist, I'm pretty sure most psychiatrists would classify Eileen as unstable and mentally inca ...

(2 pages) 148 2 3.8 Feb/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Birth Order

ts? These and many other questions have and are still being explored by psychologists. The renowned psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Adler wrote that a person's position in the family leaves an undeniable "sta ...

(12 pages) 177 0 4.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

BBP Depicted In Girl Inturrupted: This is a paper that compares the movie Girl Inturrupted to the actual symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.

g a bottle of asprin with a bottle of vodka. She was sent away in a taxicab, after a session with a psychiatrist. The taxi's destination was Clay Moore, a mental institution. A short period of rest wa ... Susanna form a tight friendship bond during her stay. Kaysen meets with her parents and a different psychiatrist, while in Clay Moore. It was during that meeting that she found out she had a disorder. ...

(6 pages) 151 1 4.1 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

A critique of the article "Psychosocial evaluation and prediction of compliance problems and morbidity after heart transplantation", written by Shapiro et al.

between 1992-1994. The subjects were all patients at the same hospital and each were evaluated by a psychiatrist, a social worker and a transplant nurse coordinator as part of the standardized patient ... od of developing postoperative compliance and behavioral problems were provided by the interviewing psychiatrist. This summery, referred to as the "global psychosocial risk", is represented by a singl ...

(7 pages) 126 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Character analysis of Guest's Ordinary People. Analyzes Cal, Beth, and Conrad and how there actions are related.

move in which he swallows his pride(a passionate trait), Cal goes to visit and talk to the Conrad's psychiatrist - for his own foibles - and behaves astoundingly. While originally guided by strong wil ...

(3 pages) 77 0 0.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The three main theorie of Sigmund Freud and his contribution to society.

The Contributions of Dr. Sigmund FreudSigmund Freud is the Jewish neurologist turned psychiatrist from 19th century Austria who is considered by many to be the father of the modern psyc ...

(4 pages) 379 1 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Bodiless Gifts.

or a deficiency in other areas. In an extreme view, Oliver Sacks explains how he, a neurologist and psychiatrist, witnesses these talents brought out by a disease. Many individuals, overlooked by soci ...

(4 pages) 29 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Van Gogh.

scinating figures in the history of Impressionism, he was a doctor who specialized in homeopathy, a psychiatrist, an engraver, a Darwinian, a Socialist and a consistently helpful and generous patron a ...

(3 pages) 53 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays

Dangers of Obedience: David Koresh.

drive of a cult leader and what the cult leader wants the members to do." Said John Hochman, a UCLA psychiatrist in the CNN Interactive article, "Mass Suicides Raise the Question: Why," by Al Hinman.F ...

(6 pages) 105 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Paedophilia on the internet symposium.

kinson, spokesperson for the parent awareness group against paedophilia, Dr. Patrice Dunkirk, paedo psychiatrist specialling in internet sexual abuse and Miss Shavaun Pennington, paedophilia victim. A ...

(19 pages) 90 0 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies

The changing american family in today's society.

re single, as they believe marriage is secondary to their social and personal commitments.I believe psychiatrist John Watson and sociologist Amitai Etzioni were wrong in their predictions that true fa ...

(3 pages) 189 3 3.9 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Learn everything about Catcher in the Rye. The main points of the story and a well written essay by me.

n the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. At first, Holden sounds like a typical, misguided teenager, rebellious towards his par ... ople being phonies, which suggests that he has some ideal to which he compares people. He tells his psychiatrist that he does not know what will happen in the future: "A lot of people, especially this ...

(4 pages) 63 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Opinion on "The Awakening" By: Kate Chopin

sults Madame Reisz. Edna and the old lady develop an odd relationship, like one between patient and psychiatrist. She is concise in her speech, and offers odd but meaningful advice to Edna such as, "T ...

(4 pages) 50 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Addiction - Does it exist or is it a state of the mind? by Saaim Khan

hink about the origin of addiction itself. Once reading a psychologists' journal, I came across one psychiatrist observing the following:"Insomniacs are, in most cases, people who have convinced thems ...

(2 pages) 43 1 3.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou Brave

Maya Angelou has gone through many horrible things in her life. I'm not surprised she hasn't seen a psychiatrist or been to therapy. Although she has been through all these things she has remained a w ...

(4 pages) 93 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

The Role in Psychology of Birth Order

irst-born child going to be inconsiderate, selfish, yet also be highly motivated? The distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Adler wrote much on the subject of birth order he discussed the idea that th ...

(11 pages) 202 2 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health