Dependent personality disorder

The Central Ego Fairbairn postulates the role of the central ego deriving from a nurturing environment and a secure attachment, fill with good, comforting, loving childhood relationships. Furthermore, Fairbairn argues that is in these scenarios that a good sense of self and others are developed along with a stable ego function (Celani,1993; Greenberg, Mitchell, 1983; St. Clair, 2004). This also allows for the normal development of frustration tolerance, ability to comfort one-self, and the…

Mental Health and Criminal Justice System The deinstitutionalization movement in the 1960s directly impacted the criminal justice system in Canada. The John Howard Society of Ontario (JHS) (2015) argues that the criminal justice system became a repository for those with mental health concerns because they found themselves in the community without adequate support and resources. Some common obstacles in the community include stigma, housing, employment, substance use as a means to…

Deep Look Into A Serial Killer’s Mind Purpose: To inform Thesis: A serial killer is a person who attacks and kills victims one by one in a series of incidents, usually more than three. Introduction: Often, people do not take time to look into what a serial killer really is and what it does, and why the US alone is struggling and having more and more of these types of offenders. A serial killer and their motives as to why they commit these horrendous crimes, give people a good definition of…

The case in interest is commonly known as “The Night Stalker” case. Involved in the case is Richard Ramirez, a serial killer -- convicted of 13 murders, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. At a young age, Ramirez was exposed to satanic worship by a cousin (who was a soldier, discharged from Vietnam). The cousin had filled his head with stories of mutilation and torture of the woman along with graphic pictures from the war. This led him to commit petty crimes and form a…

Eleanor Cowell, Theodore grandmother, was submissive and fearful of her husband. She suffered from several mental disorders such as agoraphobia and depression. During that time, it was extremely popular to use electric shock therapy for the mildest cases of mental illness. Later Louise packed up with Theodor and moved to Tacoma, Washington and changed her last name from…

Theodore Robert Bundy (1946-1989) was an American serial killer who was responsible for the kidnap, rape and murder of at least 30 female victims over seven states in the 1970’s. He was put to death by means of the electric chair in Florida on January 24th 1989. Bundy was perceived as handsome and charming, traits that he abused in order to gain the trust of his young victims. He would usually approach his victims in broad daylight simulating injury or…

Mindfulness Practice Mindfulness has been used as an ancient technique of meditation practiced by the followers of Buddhism. In essence, Buddhism offers a training of awareness through the right conduct and internal realizations. Mindfulness is one of the aspects of this training and allows a direct manipulation of one’s awareness. However, one doesn’t need to follow the Buddhist tradition in order to practice mindfulness and in fact, as the Eastern philosophies have spread to the Western…

‘dark triad’ of socially undesirable personality (Paulhus & Williams, 2002), and the three malevolent traits attract a huge attention in the socially aversive personalities. There is a general and common argument in our society that arguing whether these three constructs are equivalent or distinct. They are all negative and bad traits for human beings. Therefore, it could be hard to indicate the differences among them in general. In my opinion, the three personalities Machiavellianism,…

The bio-psycho-social model is not only an important model when studying child risk behavior, but it is the model that most researchers focus on when studying antisocial behavior trajectories. Many children grow up in single parent households, including Nancy a 24-year-old woman who grew up without a father in adolescence, who got pregnant at an early age, and dropped out of high school. With the bio-psycho-social model there are some explanations as to why antisocial behavior is present with…

Narcissism on social media: Reality behind the screen It seems as if everyone wants to be the person with the most likes, best angled photos, or the most followed/ most friends. The reality of what they are accomplishing is becoming more and more narcissistic. If people ask any young girl or boy starting at age of 12, if they have accounts on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. they are more likely to say “yes.” However, if you ask them why they have accounts,…