Psychological thriller

Although its psychological factors have commonly been recognised in the literature, the diagnostic label of PTSD was not formally recognised until 1980. Traumatic situations, including human suffering and life threatening situations are common in the everyday practice of…

Workplace harassment also known as ‘‘mobbing ' ' is defined as prejudiced or offensive behavior by which a person is oppressed in the professional aspect periodically, which inflicts emotional and labor complications. People who are going through this situation are affected in their self-esteem, increases their personal insecurity, and sometimes in aggravated cases it may cause depression or alteration. Statistics reveal alarming numbers, although both genders can be affected women have been…

friends ' use, perceived availability, perceived risk of use, parental disapproval, school commitment, and community norms against drug use (Collins, Abadi, Johnson, Shambien, & Thompson, 2012). The authors of this survey use the socio-cultural psychological perspective because the study seeks to find risk and protective factors such as friend 's use and community norms and how they relate to NMUPD in the teens. Collins et al. (2012) noticed that the teens were less likely to use non-medical…

According to the most recent data from the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men have been severely physically abused by their intimate partner during their lifetime (when accounting for sexual and psychological abuse as well the occurrence of women as victims skyrockets compared to men). This is a major problem, yet domestic violence often goes unnoticed, or ‘ignored’ in a way because it is such a taboo topic. Therefore, it is important to realize…

Child abduction is one of the biggest fears parents have. Every forty seconds, in the United States, a child is abducted. “Only about one child out of each 10,000 missing children reported to the local police is found alive”(Bilich). Jaycee Lee Dugard was one of the many children who has been abducted. Jaycee’s story shows how someone can live in such terrible conditions for so long and still manage to survive. She was just eleven years old when she was abducted. She was forced to lived with…

Abuse has everlasting effects, physically and mentally, on the victim. Abuse comes in many forms, such as verbal insults or sexual violence. In Brian De Palmer's Carrie is a story of a young girl named Carrie White whose telekinetic powers are revealed in moments of humiliation and fear. While Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski, depicts a young woman's struggle with her unnatural pregnancy from a horrifying conception. Both films are iconic horror movies with a woman protagonist…

Bullies they suck right? Or have you never been bullied or perhaps you have been the person to bully? Have you changed your self so that you are not bullied making your self a person you are not? Do you consider other people as outsiders or yourself as an outsider? Many people especially in high school do what I like to call following which is changing yourself in order to fit better if to a group of friends, maybe that means that you start to bully others because it's what you friends do or…

Fraudulence of the Human Kind There are countless reasons and explanations for why people may lie. Some may classify lying as excuses or to even protect people from the truth. Lying is something us humans matriculate from a young age, and slowly develop into becoming more sophisticated liars, over our longing years of life. Humans are all dishonest, whether they want to admit it or not, towards co-workers, friends, or even family; Us humans build on the lies, naturally. Lying can cause…

The song “Best of You” by Foo Fighters explicitly describes a situation between two people who had a really close relationship and one experienced mistreatment and abuse physically or mentally. That’s one way the lyrics of this song could be translated, but the idea expressed in this song, I think, is much bigger than that. The relationship described is a metaphor for anything that constrains an individual in life. The song was written with the purpose of self-help from problems ranging from…

Worldwide one in four women will experience domestic violence sometime within their life. Domestic violence is defined as a pattern of controlling behaviors where manipulation and force are used to gain power over a partner. Yet, many victims do not step forward or speak out against their abuser, possibly because they believe that they deserved it, or nothing positive would come from speaking out. Women who experience domestic violence have affected mental, physical, and emotional health. In…