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Tom as protagonist and antagonist in The Glass Menagerie

Tom would be the main protagonist of The Glass Menagerie, even though one could argue that Amanda serves that literary function. Amanda does drive much of the action throughout the play, and as a controlling mother figure she is psychologically if not spiritually in charge.

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Music therapy as treatment for severely mentally ill patients

Music therapy can be defined as such: "the controlled use of the influence of music on the human being to aid in physiological, psychological, and emotional integration of the individual during the treatment of an illness or disease" (Choi, Lee, & Lim 2008).

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Literary devices and survival in All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel written by German veteran of World War One Erich Maria Remarque which details the physical and psychological pressures experienced by a group of soldiers in war.

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Women's power and sexuality in Petronius's Satyricon

Satyricon is, by modern standards, a ribald and ranging novel that deals with a variety of political, social, and psychological issues without (at least in the extant sections) fully exploring or leading to conclusions in any of the specific issues it touches upon.

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Trauma, motherhood, and guilt in Toni Morrison's Beloved

Beloved by Toni Morrison is a haunting, darkly beautiful and intensely moving novel that depicts the profound traumatic reality of slavery and its repercussions on one woman's life, her mental stability and psychological well-being, her ideas of and abilities in motherhood, her entire sense of…

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Progressive muscle relaxation therapy for schizophrenia patients

It consisted of the use of progressive muscle relaxation techniques in conjunction with measurements of state anxiety, psychological stress, and of subjective measures of fatigue and well being in schizophrenic patients.

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The role of pragmatism in pastoral counseling ethics

"A pragmatic approach is a theoretical integration that attempts to bring various theories together through the development of a theoretical framework that can explain the environmental, motivational, cognitive and affective domains of the individual… [hence] with psychologists, truth is…

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Conflict climate, leadership beliefs, and stress management in communication

Chapter 6 focuses on managing the conflict climate. The climate in this case is defined by the authors as "an atmosphere that makes you feel comfortable or uncomfortable on a psychological level" (p. 103).

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Mark Twain's realism and local color in Huckleberry Finn

The realism of Mark Twain fully reveals in the novel "The adventures of Huckleberry Finn," in novel, which is familiar to many of us since high school classes of literature, but which has a deeper psychological and moral meaning, as its message expands over the limits of an adventure story for…

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Somatoform and dissociative disorders: diagnosis and symptoms

The chapter opens with the story of a man who mysteriously becomes paralyzed after he cannot save his wife from drowning. Psychologists call this kind of problem a somatoform disorder -- physical problems not explainable in medical terms but caused by some kind of psychological dysfunction.

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