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Psychopath
The five-factor model of personality measurement is based on five preconceived and arbitrary dimensions of personality, including neuroticism vs. emotional stability, extraversion vs. introversion, openness vs. closedness, agreeableness vs. antagonism, and conscientiousness vs. disinhibition. The DSM and its adherents rely heavily on the five-factor model of personality. Although the five-factor model of personality does provide a structure and framework for evaluation and diagnosis, there are several weaknesses in its approach and limitations in its clinical applications. For one it is not culturally relevant, as these traits are often linked to social and cultural factors. Second, these factors can too easily be used to suggest a normative personality type and deviant subtypes.
The major cognitive features of paranoid personality disorder create a vicious cycle due primarily to self-fulfilling prophesy creation. A person who mistrusts others may treat others with suspicion and hostility, causing others to treat the person in kind. Cognitively reinforced, the person's paranoid beliefs can be difficult to change because the person perceives his or her impressions to be valid. The longer the person practices dysfunctional behaviors toward others, the less likely others are to respond to changes in the individual's behavior. Thus, the person who tries to be less paranoid...
There are genetic markers for schizophrenia, as well as biological and environmental stressors that combine to form a risk profile. Abnormal brain development, potentially linked to birth complications, is one biological indicator of vulnerability (Chattapadhay, 2003). The role of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and norepinephrine show that brain chemistry imbalances are biological markers that are risk factors for schizophrenia. However, there is great discrepancy in research and a lack of consistency in schizophrenic biological markers. Not all schizophrenics have the same biological markers. For this reason, pharmacological interventions need to be individually tailored.
4. The DSM's sexual dysfunction categories are weak and controversial because they presume a normative sexual culture. Criticisms often focus on how the DSM tends to pathologize female sexuality more than male sexuality. This is especially true with regards to arousal or desire levels, which are pathologized. Changes to the DSM reflect a greater interest in consequences of sexual dysfunction that are not even related to sexuality, such as domestic abuse. The DSM has also gotten rid of sexual aversion disorder for its lacking empirical support. Severity and duration requirements…
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Chattapadhay, S. (2003). Tracking genetic and biological basis of schizophrenia. The Internet Journal of Mental Health 2(1).
Psychopathology Understanding of psychopathology Psychopathology has had differentiated opinions from variant psychologists. Warner's opinion of relabeling people's process and Prouty's therapy that offers a mentally unwell person are both discussed in depth for better understanding. Also, the effects of language barrier to collaborating psychologists and psychiatrists in dealing with person-centered therapies have been reviewed in this article. Communication enhancement is fundamental for the relaying of information between the different medical practitioners is
Psychopathology in Popular Film; "A Clockwork Orange" Psychology -- Abnormal Psychopathology symptoms have been analyzed through various movies but the movie "A Clockwork Orange" has raised several deep philosophical questions that are still unanswered. This movie reflected the dilemma that an increase in moral leads to a decrease in freedom. The dualistic society is beautifully portrayed in this movie only consists of victims and perpetrators. The purpose of this term paper
Abnormality: A Legal Concept One of the earliest explanations of mental illnesses and abnormality, dating as far back to the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was possession by evil spirits and acts of devil himself. Even in modern times, it is difficult to define abnormality as it can take many different forms and involve various different features. Abnormality can be defined in a number of ways. Considered as a deviation from the
Abnormal Psychology Lamanda has an etiology that has causal factors gathered right from her childhood. She is behaving in a manner likely to indicate an abnormal psychological problem. No wonder the social worker, she meets at the restaurant she currently works as a waiter, advises her to seek for professional assistance. Lamanda seems confused, disorganized, withdrawn and is living in denial of herself and origin. There is an observable trend in
Taxi Driver: A Case Study Travis Bickle: An Introduction The facts that are presented to the spectator about Travis Bickle in the most general sense do paint a portrait of a certain level of pathology. Travis Bickle is a decorated Vietnam veteran, and appears to suffer from PTSD. The spectator also quickly learns that Travis does not have many friends: he's socially very isolated and this appears in part to be connected
He suggested the British model of profiling instead, based on the "bottom up" type of processing, which analyzes existing evidence of specific similarities between offense and offender characteristics. The CSA uses the reverse, the "top down" processing, which relies on subjective conclusions derived from investigative experience of crimes and criminal interviews by the police and investigators (Hayden). Motive is the reason behind the commission of a crime (Zandt 2006). It