Cue-dependent forgetting

Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) is a man diagnosed with bi-polar disorder who has just been checked out of a mental institution. His road to recovery is extremely tough until he meets Tiffany Maxwell (Jennifer Lawrence) who is suffering from depression along with self-destructive promiscuity. Through a mutual agreement, they both indirectly start to help each other address their issues. They set a goal, a dance competition, and take baby steps to achieve that and ultimately bring closure to both…

(World Health Organization, 1993. p. 156) While dependent personalities are quite common, most people know someone who fits at least a few of the criteria, to receive a diagnosis of dependent personality disorder an individual must exhibit symptoms for an extended amount of time. Therefore, diagnosing dependent personality disorder is actually quite rare, occurring in about 0.6% of the general population ("Personality", 2007). Interestingly, dependent personality disorder is strongly influenced…

Beth fits the criteria for Histrionic Personality Disorder. The diagnostic criteria for Histrionic Personality Disorder in the DSM-5 is: overly dramatic; attention-seeking behavior; easily angered; seductive; dependent on others; vain, shallow, manipulative; emotional displays are intense, exaggerated, but lack depth; emotionality has a “staged” quality to it. Beth is overly dramatic about just about everything, she gets extremely upset over finding out that Conrad…

Faye Dunaway’s portrayal of Joan Crawford in the movie Mommy Dearest (1981) exhibits many of the characteristics of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Her character also seems to suffer from antisocial narcissistic behaviors as well as histrionic personality and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. These disorders often occur together and are closely related mental health diagnoses, which result in a disruption in self-image, relationships and regulation or control of emotions (Life…

Adler Alfred Adler’s theory of personality largely revolved around birth order, style of life, and inferiority. Adler believed that infants are born into feeling inferior which in turn leads to overcompensation in order to turn our weaknesses into strengths. His idea of superiority striving, striving to improve oneself and achieve your own personal best, has been a characteristic of my personality since I can remember (Cloninger, p. 72). I have always had goals and dreams that have the same…

Twenty-eight scales are divided into 5 categories: modifying indices; clinical personality patterns; severe personality pathology; clinical syndrome; severe syndrome. Modifying indices are consisted of validity index (scale V), which detects random or deviant responses (3 items), disclosure index (scale X), which detects openness or secretiveness of the client’s responses (the raw score of the clinical personality patterns) , desirability index (scale Y), which measures the client’s tendency to…

In the movie Mommie Dearest, actress Joan Crawford slowly slips into madness by showing several examples of each disorder throughout the movie. The four disorders I will be comparing are borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder and obsessive personality disorder. All of these disorders and their symptoms heavily affected and influenced Joan and everyone around her. For example, her daughter Christina grew up with a mother that insisted…

A mental disorder, or psychiatric disorder is a diagnosis of a behaviour or mental pattern that causes suffering or a poor inability to function in everyday life. Such attributes may relapse, be persistent or can occur as a single episode (). Pedophilia is an example of a psychiatric disorder in which an older adolescent or adult experiences an exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children(). There is much discussion in the world in mental health and psychology of what actually constructs…

Survey shows that an immense amount of Americans believe that being unique and standing out is more valuable than fitting in. To be more precise, 83% of people surveyed believe this to be true. Personally I didn’t find these results to be that shocking because as a society we push people to be uniquely themselves so often. If you were to google the term ‘inspiring quotes’ majority of those quotes are centered around the beauty of standing out. We’ve been brainwashed to believe that standing out…

In the book Great Expectations Miss. Havisham has borderline personality disorder. Mrs. Havisham shows signs of being extremely harmful, not only to herself but too her daughter. How she is harmful to her daughter is she has destroyed her daughter's perception on men. She persuaded Estella to pursue Pip, to break his heart. Mrs havisham whispered “Break their hearts!” into Estella's ear. Another reason is she is very anti-social, this is a sign of this disorder. She has no friends, no life, she…