Psychological repression

Ulysses and Santiago “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us” (Joseph Campbell). This quote relates to the two stories because the main characters had to ditch their past life for their new ones. Santiago and Ulysses can easily be compared or contrasted. They are alike in tons of ways, but they are also so different. They are two completely different who are strangely alike. They both find help on their journeys from surprising strangers who…

Domestic violence transpires in several types of form like physical, sexual, economic, emotional abuse, marital rape, verbal abuse, honor killings, acid attack or vitriolage, including dowry violence or bride burning. Ordinarily recognized as domestic abuse, family violence, spousal violence, dating abuse, battering, also intimate partner abuse. A domestic disturbance appears to be by stress, poverty, including sexually transmitted diseases. Over a million of people is involved in a domestic…

The abuser may have suffered some sort of childhood trauma, like intense psychological abuse. Depression and low self-esteem and contribute to relationship issues because if you don’t love and respect yourself, how can you attempt to love anyone else? A common way in attempting to conceal these emotions is consuming alcohol, which…

“I am eleven” and “3 Wishes” are 2 amazing pieces of work both of which are documentaries that talk about children how they feel towards an array of different questions. Although they do so many things differently. So how do they compare? Well “I am eleven” is a filmed documentary on eleven-year-olds all around the world. It asks the children in the documentary how they feel towards topics such as love, bullying, war and what makes them different compared to other 11-year-olds. The children in…

A very controversial topic is child soldiers and should they be punished for their actions or be treated as victims. While you may think that if a 15 or 16 year old wants to fight why would they be treated as victims, but it isn’t just teenagers. It’s kids as young as 6, and these kids are being forced to join. They are being drugged and threatened. I think these kids are victims because they are punished as adults for doing things they don’t understand as kids, children are easily manipulated…

The article for discussion is the “Analysis of the Family Violence Option.” This article brings focus to the policy, Family Violence Option. The Family Violence Option is designed for women who are victims to domestic violence. This policy was created to help domestic abused women to be exempted from being required to follow the requirements from Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). TANF’s requirements, indicated by Tutty (1996), would help abused women become “self-sufficient,”…

What constitutes a psychological disorder is the first step to finding an understanding. However, the complex perception of what is normal versus abnormal, both behavioral and cognitive, that results in distress, are the defining factors (Cacioppo & Freberg, 2013). In essence, if a person is unable to function in the important areas, properly meet and care for their own needs, or have an increased risk of danger to their self or others, this is observed as abnormal and establishes there may be…

In the past year, the United States’ Marine Corps has conducted an experiment in response to the Department of Defense’s decision to lift the bans keeping women from combat roles in the military. In the study, co-ed platoons consisting roughly of one-fourth females faced realistic challenges which platoons on the front lines may face in combat. When the results of the co-ed platoons were compared to the performances of the all-male platoons, the platoons with females did not perform as…

The impacts of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) on victims has been widely documented in the research literature over the past decades. In particular a large body of research has been published on the long term impacts of CSA and whether there is a direct link between it and the effects that occur later in life. Although much of the earlier research in this area used cross-sectional studies with convenience or clinical samples, recent studies have progressively used large random community samples…

Not only adults experience the stresses in life, but also children who observe the hardship of the parents and may want an opportunity of a different life for themselves and their family members. There are factors that can push or pull a juvenile to act out in a delinquent manner. Flowers (2002), found Strain theories of delinquency explain the delinquency of juveniles as a response to a lack of socially approved opportunities (flowers 2002) that usually stem from the frustrations of lower…