Menstrual psychosis

Strength and Vulnerability in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Throughout his famous novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey shows that power and vulnerability are largely subjective, and people often only have power because others think that they do. Chief Bromden’s unreliable narration depicts all kinds of power as physical size despite a character’s real size or physical ability. Nurse Ratched’s power over the rest of the characters, and McMurphy’s ability to resist it, shows that…

where they no longer met the criteria for PTSD. One of these treatments should definitely be considered when addressing the psychosis. There is a thought that exposing trauma patients to trauma treatment could potentially have adverse reactions. The article address this concern by stating that their “findings demonstrate that PE and EMDR can used safely for patients with psychosis” and that there were no deterrents in regards to social functioning (Bont, 2013, 724). Showing effectiveness for…

The man and the band that no knows anything about. If they do know something they are never quite sure if it’s true. Nick Blinko is a British outsider artist, schizophrenic, and lead singer and guitar player in the experimental Anarcho-Punk band Rudimentary Peni. Yes that’s “Peni” as in “Penis” Little is known about Rudimentary Peni and even less is known about Blinko. What there is to know is shrouded in mystery and all seems to come from a very small pool of original sources. Pooled here is…

Interestingly enough Peter Langman, a psychologist developed characteristics for clearer understanding the mind-set of school shooters into three class typologies. The traumatized shooter as Dr. Langman describes, usually come from broken homes where they (the shooter) was either a victim of physical or sexual abuse or worse both. Also, the parents may be victims of substance abuse or have prior criminal history as he elaborates in his article, Rampage School Shooters: A Typology. The next…

The multiple Oscar winning biographical movie A Beautiful Mind tells the story based on the life of the famous Nobel Prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. The movie start with John Forbes Nash in graduate school at Princeton University. At Princeton, he meets a group of graduate students and his roommate Charles Herman. John Forbes Nash was one of the two admired Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics winner at Princeton. At Princeton University, John Forbes Nash was one of the two…

Article 1: Abrahamsson, E., Trobiornsson, A., & Hägglö, B. (2007), could not find “many studies of homogenous clinical sample on adolescent onset anorexia nervosa(NA).” In this study, a representative clinical sample of individuals with previous anorexia nervosa was selected. They were interviewed at eight and sixteen years after they had their initial onset of the disorder. Authors compared the perceived causes of those who had continued to suffer from this disorder and those who had recovered…

Religion: None Assessment of the situation: W.J is a 41-year-old single Caucasian female who voluntarily entered the urgent treatment units for profound level of depression, increased auditory hallucinations, and increased suicidal thoughts on September 6th, 2015. The patient has a history of unrelenting cycles of binging and purging resulting in a prolapsed rectum requiring recent surgical interventions. The patient also has medical diagnosis of HPV, and UTI. The patient has a history of s/p…

Ms. NS is a 21 year-old, heterosexual, Hispanic, single woman who is in her fourth year at the University of La Verne. Ms. NS’s major is Theater Arts and her minor is Business Management. Ms. NS presented to the Argosy University Therapeutic Assessment and Psychotherapy Services (AUTAPS) with her concerns that she has been unable to pass the math placement test. Ms. NS stated that the Disabled Student Services Department at the university referred her to the AUTAPS for her psychological…

As Macbeth progresses through the three murders, his state of mind deteriorates, and there is lots of evidence that shows the growth of his ruthlessness and thirst for power. When Macbeth and Lady Macbeth decide to murder King Duncan, this is the beginning of Macbeth’s thirst for power. When Macbeth and Banquo first come across the three witches, they hail to Macbeth as Thane of Glamis than Thane of Cawdor and lastly as the King of Scotland. As the witches prophecies begin to come true, this…

Flowers for Algernon, a superhuman science fiction novel published in the late 1950s, is a work of literature that is rich in multiple themes related to the topic of the mentally disabled: their treatment, their purpose in society, their inner feelings… Daniel Keyes, a man with experience in the company of mentally disabled individuals through his prior position as a teacher, writes this novel where, Charlie Gordon, the main character, is a mentally deficient adult who undergoes an experiment,…