According to the American Psychiatric Association, anxiety is a normal response to stress and can even be useful in some situations, such as increasing attention and focus on what we are doing. By contrast, anxiety disorders differ from temporary feelings of anxiousness or nervousness with more intense feelings of fear or anxiety. Anxiety Disorder Types: […]
Elizabeth Diane Downs is an American woman who murdered her daughter and attempted to murder her other two children near Springfield, Oregon, on May 19, 1983. She was convicted in 1984 and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Diane Downs was born on august the 7th 1955 in
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JonBenét Ramsey was a six-year-old girl who was brutally murdered in her family house at Christmas time. She was born in wealthy family and could have had all privileges, safe and happy growing up. She is remembered as a blonde, green eyed little girl with full face of makeup and stylish hair performing on the
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Multiple personality disorder had been used until 1994 and the idea was that there was additional information with these personalities, with these alters. So in a sense these alters were growing they were developing as individuals. In 1994 name is changed to Dissociative identity disorder (DID). With DID our understanding is that these alters are
In August 1990, in Gainesville Florida, while students were preparing for the start of fall semester, shocking chain of events brought a dark cloud of fear and terror amongst the whole community in the college town for at least two or three months. People were afraid to go out, afraid to open their doors afraid
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Unlike telling the occasional white lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings or getting in trouble, a pathological liar seems to lie for no apparent reason. Pathological lying is a persistent, compulsive tendency to tell lies out of proportion to any apparent advantage that can be achieved. This often occurs among people with alcohol dependence or
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Muzafer Sherif argued that intergroup conflict (i.e., conflict between groups) occurs when two groups are in competition for limited resources. This theory is supported by evidence from a famous study investigating group conflict: The Robbers Cave Experiment. In the mid-1950’s Muzafer Sherif and others carried out the Robbers Cave experiment on intergroup conflict and co-operation
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Battered woman syndrome is considered a type of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Psychologist Lenore Walker, EdD, coined the term in her groundbreaking 1979 book, The Battered Woman. Battered woman’s syndrome is the psychological effects of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse inflicted by intimate partner. Men are also abused by their partners, and the term “battered
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Founded by psychoanalyst John Bowlby in the 1950s and expanded by Mary Ainsworth, attachment theory outlines how your bond with your primary caregivers sets the foundation for how you navigate relationships throughout life. Human infant cannot survive without its caregiver. That is why infants need closeness with their caregivers. Depending on the relationship that caregivers,
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Ed, Text Revision (DSM-5) criteria for a diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder (1), patients must have a persistent pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking. This pattern is shown by the presence of ≥ 5 of the following: Also, symptoms must have begun by early adulthood. Histrionic
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