Essays Tagged: "sexual development"
The Use of Metaphor, Diction, and Symbol in Sharon Olds' The One Girl at the Boys Party
cent, whose mother recounts a vicarious experience that seems to stand a landmark in the social and sexual development of a young female.This poem starts in the boast: "When I take my girl to the swim ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Chron's disease
n to adults and children, men and women. For children there is a risk of stunted growth and delayed sexual development.Diagnosing Chron'sin diagnosing Crohn's disease is often done through an Upper an ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The three main theorie of Sigmund Freud and his contribution to society.
ories are the theory of the mind, the Oedipus and Elektra complexes and the theory on the stages of sexual development.Freud's theory of the mind is one of the most important aspects in studying the p ... which according to Freud are satisfying hunger and thirst, the need to avoid pain, and the need for sexual gratification. The demand to satisfy these three needs is known as the "pleasure principle."( ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Anorexia
rexia.In Freudian theory eating and sex are related and refusing to eat can be seen as a refusal of sexuality.Psychodynamic Theorists suggest that eating disorders are related to the onset of sexual d ... ion that they are still children.There is some evidence that some people with eating disorders were sexually abused as children. The suggestion is that such experiences are REPRESSED into the unconsci ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Sexual and Romantic Development in Youth
This paper explores the effects of one's context and biology on sexual and romantic development in youth and young adults. I find it perplexing that children mature ... outh and young adults. I find it perplexing that children mature very differently in terms of their sexuality. This brings to question whether nature or nurture controls one's sexuality and romantic r ... over the importance of hormones and biological factors versus environmental factors in relation to sexual development. Despite Freud's notion, parental influence determines a child's sexual developme ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Rite of Passage
of passage for girls, however, in the United States this is rare as girls are taught to keep their sexual development private.In the adolescent stage there is a higher chance of drug and alcohol abus ... evel of an adult.Physical maturation during adolescent years leads to interest in activities of the sexual nature. Many times this can lead to teenage pregnancy. Today's teens are entering puberty ear ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Striods
oids play a role in the development of the skeletal muscles and promote the male characteristics of sexual development. Steroids were developed because of hypogonadism, which is a condition that effec ... teroid would help to increase the amount of testosterone, which in turn would produce a more normal sexual function. Steroids were first tested on animals to find out what kind of effects if any. They ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports
Outline and describe three structural influences on identity
l characteristics. Freud (cited Grove and Watt p49) agreed with this and said that a child's psycho-sexual development depends on identifying with others of the same sex. Therefore the child's self ca ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Turner's Syndrome: Symptoms, Treatment, and Prognosis
c disorder, the affected individual experiences many symptoms, most having to do with their lack of sexual development during puberty. Diagnosed individuals have a chromosomal abnormality. Turner synd ... is the syndrome in which there is an absence of a sex chromosome, the carriers severely lack their sexual development. This results in underdeveloped ovaries and little amounts of sex hormones. Becau ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine