Category: Psychology
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Exploring MDMA-Assisted Therapy: A New Horizon for PTSD Treatment
As a tenured professor of Psychology with a focus on mental health treatments, I’ve closely followed the evolution of therapeutic strategies for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Among the most intriguing developments in this field is MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD, a groundbreaking approach that has been making waves in the realm of psychiatric care. This article…
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Psilocybin Therapy for Mental Health: Treating Anxiety, OCD, and Depression
The landscape of mental health treatment is ever-evolving, with researchers and clinicians constantly seeking more effective interventions. Among the most promising developments in recent years is psilocybin therapy for mental health, a treatment approach utilizing a natural psychedelic compound found in certain mushroom species. This article delves deeply into how psilocybin therapy is emerging as…
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Harms of Social Media
Social media has become an integral part of modern life, and it has the potential to bring people together and facilitate communication and connection. However, there is also evidence that social media can have negative effects on mental health and well-being. One of the main harms of social media is the potential for increased feelings…
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Modern Ideas of Body Image
Body image is a complex and multifaceted concept that refers to an individual’s perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about their own body. In recent years, there has been a significant shift in modern ideas about body image, with a greater focus on diversity, self-acceptance, and body positivity. One of the main modern ideas about body image…
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The Harmful Effects of Porn on Women
The pornography industry has rapidly grown from an eight-billion-dollar industry in 1996 to a whopping twelve-billion-dollar industry by 2005 according to adult video news (Bridges et al. 1065). It is quite clear from this statistic pornography has become a social norm Look at the case of Gabe Deem, recounted in CQ researcher, who at the…
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Psychology – Attitudes and Attitude Change
Media can be helpful but it can also be harmful. It shapes our opinions and beliefs, sometimes correctly and sometimes incorrectly. Media can teach us to judge people based on skin color, how they dress, or even how they act. Media can also teach us to accept everyone for who they are no matter what.…
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Critical Thinking Class Essay
Critical Thinking Short Paper Charlotte Petrovich PSY 370 Professor Malphus December 14, 2008 Every once in a while a class has the opportunity of going on a field trip. A field trip’s purpose is to expand learning that the students are already learning about. A teacher can expand on what the students saw by incorporating…
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A Molestation Epidemic – Essay
If you have a daughter, she has a one in five chance of being sexually abused before she turns twelve. One in five little girls under the age of twelve has been molested nationally by someone claiming the only thing they are guilty of is love. Through this paper you will find facts and statistics…
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Nature Of Logic And Perception Essay
Nature Of Logic And Perception Critical thinking is the ability to be in control of one’s thinking. It includes the ability to knowingly examine the elements of one’s reasoning, or that of another, and evaluate that reasoning against common or universal intellectual standards – clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, and logic. It also involves…
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The Meaning of Life Essay
The meaning of life in my eyes is to be a matchmaker. It might sound funny to say that to most people but its true. What I mean is that the goal in life is to make new life. Being a matchmaker is not always that easy but if it’s perfected, can result in happiness…
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Sexuality at Different Life Stages Essay
Sexuality at Different Life Stages Aerial Familiar PSY265 December 15, 2008 Sex is the one biological process that is completely necessary for the perpetuation of humankind. We, as a race, can eat well, sleep well, drink well, and even love well, but without the capacity to reproduce we cannot continue beyond a single generation. Yet…
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Childhood Obesity Essay
Paper on Childhood Obesity The United States is dealing with an increasing epidemic of child obesity in our society. In the past years, Americans have changed their eating and exercise habits drastically for the worse. Children become the victims of obesity because of the lack of a nutritional diet, and exercise. Some claim that the…
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Life After Death – Personal Essay
Is there life after death? In my up bringing thru the years I always felt there was life after death. Listening to the older relatives who were some time on there death beds, they would drift in and out and say what pretty lights they see and the people are having so much fun. Some…
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Is the Use of Psychotropic Drugs in the Treatment of Children Viable?
In order to understand how psychotropic drugs affect children, this report will look at two unrelated, completed papers that incorporate several different studies.
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Three Concepts of Psychodynamic
Weston (1998), states that one of the postulates fundamental to contemporary psychodynamic theory is that a large amount of mental existence, involving thoughts, emotions, and motivation, are unconscious. As a result, people are capable of acting in fashions or acquiring symptoms that are incomprehensible to them (Weston, 1998; Erdelyi, 2001). Weston asserts that research not…
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Effects of Television Violence on Children
A major topic of conversation nowadays is whether or not violence on television causes children to behave more violently.
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Nature Vs Nurture: An Age Old Debate
Criminal behavior has always been a focus for psychologists due to the age old debate between nature and nurture.
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Narccisistic Personality Disorder
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is defined as in the American Heritage Dictionary as excessive love or admiration of oneself, a psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lac
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Anxiety in Individual Sports
Anxiety is a reaction that is measured using various scales through the observation of cognitive and physiological symptoms that become evident in reaction to a stimulus. In relation to sports, anxiety is often associated with an upcoming performance. Anxiety could also be enhanced by the intense competition offered by sports. Anxiety in connection with sports…
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Biography of Erick Erickson
Erickson became aware of the massive influence of culture on behavior and placed more emphasis on the external world. Such as depression and wars. He felt the course of development is determined by the interaction of the body, mind and culture. He organized life into eight stages that extend from birth to death. Since adulthood…
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Social Categorization and Social Construction theory
It is through social interactions that have put people to act and react implication to others. Due to the social interactions we learn what is acceptable and what is not. Over time these rules become internalised within us and eventually become an unconscious part of our lives and our identity. Social identity theory asserts that…
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About Sensation, Perception, and Attention
Key factors in mental processes and interpreting different experiences deal with sensation, perception, and attention. There is a certain amount of stimuli that each of us can handle before we are unable to perform in a productive manner. We have explored each individual’s limits to auditory stimuli along with the ability to perform in a…
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Core Knowledge and Skills for Primary Mental Health Care Practice
Depression has been described as the common cold of mental health problems (Hotopf, 1996) and 90 % of depression is managed in primary care (Mann, 1992). The National Service Framework (NSF, DoH, 1999) identifies cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as a major component of primary mental health care services, as it has a strong effectiveness research…
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Bystander Behaviour Research Paper
This essay will give examples and discuss the factors which can affect bystander behaviour in various situations. Models explaining theories will be looked at along with various studies, as well as looking at the three social cognitive processes by Latane and Darley and explain how these were put together to propose a complex cognitive model.…
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Eye Witness Testimony – Psychology Essay
A witness is someone who has firsthand knowledge about a crime through their senses and can certify to its happening and someone who has seen an event at firsthand is known as an eyewitness. Witnesses are often called before a court of law to testify in trials and their testimony is considered crucial in the…