On a Federal level per the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS); individuals are classified as stalking victims if they have experienced at least one of the following behaviors on at least two separate occasions. The behaviors that were listed on the BJS website are as follows:
“Making unwanted phone calls, sending unsolicited or unwanted letters or e-mails, following or spying on the victim, showing up at places without a legitimate reason, waiting at places for the victim, leaving unwanted items, presents, or flowers, posting information or spreading rumors about the victim on the internet, in a public place, or by word of mouth”, (BJS, 2016).
The legal definition of stalking varies across different jurisdictions. It may range from laws …show more content…
Per Domesticshelters.org, January is now Stalking Awareness month. This organization gives multiple statistics and information regarding the issues surrounding stalking. Approximately, 7.5 million individuals are affected by stalking each year. Of these fore mentioned individuals, about 15% of females (compared to 6% of males) will deal with stalking sometime in their lives and almost all are under the age of 25. “In the majority of cases, stalkers know their victims. About 61 percent of females and 44 percent of males who experience stalking are stalked by a current or former intimate partner. A quarter of females and 32 percent of males are stalked by an acquaintance”, (Domesticshelters.org). When dealing with stalkers most researchers agree that stalkers do not like to be ignored. Research indicates that when a stalker is ignored by their victim an escalation in physical violence usually occurs. In general, stalking causes a huge amount of problems for the victims. It is not just limited to physically stalking someone, it can be phone calls, text messages, cyberstalking, following or watching an individual from a distance. These victims sometimes endure huge psychological and physical illnesses after these incidences. Some must then seek treatment for depression, anxiety, insomnia, etc. These victims are affected in profound ways, sometimes forced to miss work and/or move from their …show more content…
Rather than seek the causes in biological processes or anomalies, it attempts to look deep into the mind of the individual”, (Akers, p. 68). Psychoanalysis, broken down, is just basically an approach in which a therapist helps a patient better understand using examination of deep personal feelings, relationships, and events that have shaped motivations and behavior. It dives deeper into the mind and the unconscious of the individual.
Sigmund Freud (1856 to 1939) is considered to be the father of Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association (APSAA) states that the history of the psychoanalytic theory dates to Sigmund Freud in 1923. The APSAA also states that the research basis for psychoanalysis was largely based on Freud’s work on The Ego and the Id (1923) and The Problem of Anxiety (1936). This was followed by the work of Anna Freud (1936) and then Heinz Hartmann (1939). The work on psychoanalysis became established in America between the eras of World War I (1914 to 1918) and World War II (1939 to
“Making unwanted phone calls, sending unsolicited or unwanted letters or e-mails, following or spying on the victim, showing up at places without a legitimate reason, waiting at places for the victim, leaving unwanted items, presents, or flowers, posting information or spreading rumors about the victim on the internet, in a public place, or by word of mouth”, (BJS, 2016).
The legal definition of stalking varies across different jurisdictions. It may range from laws …show more content…
Per Domesticshelters.org, January is now Stalking Awareness month. This organization gives multiple statistics and information regarding the issues surrounding stalking. Approximately, 7.5 million individuals are affected by stalking each year. Of these fore mentioned individuals, about 15% of females (compared to 6% of males) will deal with stalking sometime in their lives and almost all are under the age of 25. “In the majority of cases, stalkers know their victims. About 61 percent of females and 44 percent of males who experience stalking are stalked by a current or former intimate partner. A quarter of females and 32 percent of males are stalked by an acquaintance”, (Domesticshelters.org). When dealing with stalkers most researchers agree that stalkers do not like to be ignored. Research indicates that when a stalker is ignored by their victim an escalation in physical violence usually occurs. In general, stalking causes a huge amount of problems for the victims. It is not just limited to physically stalking someone, it can be phone calls, text messages, cyberstalking, following or watching an individual from a distance. These victims sometimes endure huge psychological and physical illnesses after these incidences. Some must then seek treatment for depression, anxiety, insomnia, etc. These victims are affected in profound ways, sometimes forced to miss work and/or move from their …show more content…
Rather than seek the causes in biological processes or anomalies, it attempts to look deep into the mind of the individual”, (Akers, p. 68). Psychoanalysis, broken down, is just basically an approach in which a therapist helps a patient better understand using examination of deep personal feelings, relationships, and events that have shaped motivations and behavior. It dives deeper into the mind and the unconscious of the individual.
Sigmund Freud (1856 to 1939) is considered to be the father of Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association (APSAA) states that the history of the psychoanalytic theory dates to Sigmund Freud in 1923. The APSAA also states that the research basis for psychoanalysis was largely based on Freud’s work on The Ego and the Id (1923) and The Problem of Anxiety (1936). This was followed by the work of Anna Freud (1936) and then Heinz Hartmann (1939). The work on psychoanalysis became established in America between the eras of World War I (1914 to 1918) and World War II (1939 to