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Sigmund Freud's life and psychoanalytic career

Sigmund Freud is commonly known as the "father of psychoanalysis." Although many of his ideas and paradigms have been outmoded by subsequent research, he is recognized as the first to recognize a link between behavior and the brain.

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Racial identity and lived experience in African-American culture

The readings on ethnography suggest that when approaching a personal narrative on ethnography one should formulate "an ethnographic topic study" -- and for me that would entail putting my life, my ethnic culture, my employment and my socially-related culture into some perspective.

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David Burns's Feeling Good: neurology, mood, and depression

The author, David Burns, is a medical doctor and the former Acting Chief of Psychiatry at the Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Freud and Erikson's theoretical perspectives on personality development

One of the more interesting aspects of Freud's approach to understanding the brain and how it operates in the daily lives of humans was his use of topographical comparisons to illustrate his main themes, even going so far as to "map" these regions as they related to his constructs of the id and…

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Jungian psychotherapy as a path toward wholeness and self-transformation

Jungian approach to psychotherapy represents a total transformation of the Self, the Soul, the Psyche. As such, the Jungian approach remains one of the most powerful methods by which a clinician can help guide a client towards the healing process.

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Depressive symptoms among Latino farm workers across agricultural seasons

Grzywacz, Joseph G., Sara a. Quandt, Haiying Chen, Scott Isom, Lisa Kiang, Quirina Vallejos, & Thomas a. Arcury. (2010). Depressive symptoms among Latino farm workers across the agricultural season: Structural and situational influences.

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William Blake's symbolism in "The Lamb" and "The Tiger"

William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter, and printer who was largely ignored during his time, but is now considered to be one of the seminal figures in British romantic poetry.

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Charismatic leadership and cult dynamics in the Enron collapse

The first major corporate collapse resulting from organizational leadership and mismanagement throughout the company was the 2001 Enron implosion.

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Rousseau's Emile and the philosophy of Romantic childhood

Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote Emile in 1762. The alternate title of this innovative novel is On Education because Rousseau's motivation for the story was to describe a system of education that would allow the natural innocence and intrinsic goodness of the young child to survive without corruption…

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Historical origins of Nazi concentration and death camps

In attempting to analyze the causes and the history behind the concentration camps and death camps that Nazi Germany created all over the conquered places and more particularly in German soil itself, there are a set of questions that the student of history must answer first.

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