Psychosurgery

Exercise One: Health, Stress and Coping 1. The self-determination theory is the process where an individual is motivated to establish a new attitude in the regards of their actions which have affected their state of health where they wish to improve it and aim to maintain this new mind set to uphold this adequate state of health. Therefore, the self-determination suggests that the evolvement of autonomy, competence and relatedness is needed as it is important in the development and maintenance…

Overview Paraphilias is derived from the Greek word “Para” which means around or beside and the word “Philia” which means love. A term coined in the early 1900’s to describe atypical sexual behaviors. It is described as an emotional disorder that are ascertained to be as sexually arousing fantasies, recurrent behaviors that interferes with social function and other important daily functioning. Regarded as a sexual dysfunction, people with paraphilic condition have intense sexual fantasies and…

discuss discrepancies between the conscious and motivated unconscious (McLeod). As mental illness continued to present itself as time progressed, the 1930s were a time of drug experimentation. These treatments include electroconvulsive therapy, psychosurgery, among other experimentative procedures. Apart from drug-based treatments, the 1940s also resulted in more comforting facilities with professional care ( Foerschner). This care was essential to the fight against mental illness. However, in…

Joe Ball, David Berkowitz, Edmund Kemper, Ted Bundy and Dennis Rader. What do these names have in common? Joe Ball is a Texan often referred to as “The Alligator Man”, and is suspected of murdering over 20 women in the early 20th century. Berkowitz is the infamous Son of Sam, is infamously known for killing more than eight victims in a single summer. Edmund Kemper, or the Co-Ed Killer started murdering when he turned 15 years old. Dennis Rader murdered ten people in Kansas in a span of 17 years.…

In 2014, assisted suicide became a controversial topic in the media after a terminally ill patient named Brittany Maynard advocated for the practice that would allow physicians to assist terminally ill patients in ending their own lives instead allowing whatever illness they have kill them. Maynard had a brain tumor that kept growing and caused her great distress; she would have "seizures so violent, they left her unable to speak for hours" (Lapook). Her decision to travel to Portland, Oregon to…

biological processes in order to explain abnormal behavior. They account for abnormal behavior with viral infections, genetics, and normal evolution. The leading treatment is drug therapy, but some also use electroconvulsive therapy, and on occasion psychosurgery (Comer, 2014). A therapist who uses the Psychodynamic Model believes an…

treatment of psychoanalysis, which sought to cure delusions and irrationalities with distraction as well as through hypnosis and dream analysis (“A Beautiful Mind”). Later, somatic treatment was developed, which included “psycho-pharmacology, psychosurgery, electroconvulsive therapy, and electric shock therapy” (“A Beautiful Mind”). The use of pharmacological treatments changed from sedatives that made symptoms less obvious to medicines that actually eliminated the symptoms (“A Beautiful…