A beautiful mind: Study of Schizophrenia
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
“Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?” (Grazer & Howard, 2001). The hell described in the previous quote is the hell of schizophrenia; of...
Disruptive and violent delinquent girls: Behavioral causes and treatment options
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Delinquency among females is on the rise, with cases among adolescent females increasing by eighty-three percent between 1988 and 1997 (Leve and Chamberlain, 2004). While it is often found that girls are brought into custody for more minor offenses than boys, the proportion of females committing...
Face recognition and perception by young children
Essay - 12 pages - Psychology
This study tested four and five-year-olds for their ability to use differences in the spacing among features when asked to pairing faces. The task was presented as a drag and drop features game which provided double reinforcement to children. Cognitive variables were taken in consideration...
Thinking through Jung
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
This essay is radically ‘Post'-Jungian. As with other essays that I have written it can only exist due to the immersion within Jungian psychology. But in effect I am working through Jungian psychology. Hence one is indebted to Jung but nevertheless, most definitely post-Jungian. Carl Jung...
Contemporary key Post-Jungian thinkers
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) had a rational and irrational side. The rational side of Jung was scientifically orientated. It was an empirical side that studied psychic contents as psychological facts. Meanwhile the irrational side of Jung lapped up and experienced esoteric and numinous...
Creative psychology
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
In this essay we discuss some selective creative areas of psychology; of interest to Depth Psychology. Part 1 discusses the influence of romanticism on the famous 20th century psychologist, Carl Jung. Part 2 discusses Jung's psychological perspective on the UFO phenomenon. Finally in part 3 we...
The evolution of Jungian depth psychology from Jung to Hillman and Giegerich
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
When Carl Jung wrote Symbols of Transformation1 in 1912 it not only signaled his split from Sigmund Freud. It also equated to the beginning of what is now nearly 100 years of Jungian Analytical Psychology. Sixty three years later, in 1975, James Hillman wrote Re-visioning Psychology.2 Whilst...
The state of psychology a 100 years ago
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
In this essay we will be looking into the state of psychology as a field of knowledge in the early years of the 20th century. A hundred years ago psychology had a wider geographical spread with a strong contribution not only in America but also even more so in Europe. (Switzerland, Germany,...
The ill ego-consciousness
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Modern western ego consciousness equates to an ego that differentiates itself from the outer object or from the outer phenomena. And also the healthy differentiating ego is also stable. Hence, logically the psychologically ill person attaches too easily to outer-objects and to outer phenomena....
A Post-Jungian perspective on the psychology of the pre-modern person in today's modern western culture
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
The psychology that shall be articulated in this essay can from the outset be described as relatively pre-modern and relatively psychoanalytical. It is pre-modern because we will be focusing on the pre-modern psyche without arguing that it should be vanquished in favor of a modern psychological...
Jungian psychoanalytical cultural psychology
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
In this essay we are presenting a potential new Post-Jungian psychology. The psychology that I will be expressing is one of Jungian Psychoanalytical Cultural Psychology (JPC). One thing that I have noticed in my psychological studies is that the Jungian, psychoanalytical, Freudian, Adlerian (etc)...
Integrating Christian and secular counseling theories
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
An integrated and flexible counseling approach is outlined, which calls for competency in a number of techniques in order to serve a number of clients. Personality structure, motivation, and human development are discussed, addressing biological and environmental differences that account for...
The Psychological meaning of the UFO phenomena: Building on the work of C. G. Jung
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
In this essay we will build upon the foundations laid down by the famous psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung concerning the value and relevance of the UFO phenomena. In part 1 we will outline Jung's basic view. Then in part 2 we will build on the theory arguing that the psychological meaning of the...
Beyond words and content based systems: Towards a psychologically creative social culture
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
This essay is concerned with phenomena that comes within the domain of psychology. We will emphasize areas of psychology that are healthy. Hence it will be argued that for many people words (and content orientated systems) are inadequate for expressing life - yet unfortunately - they have been...
Relations between biological and social psychology
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
Psychology is both a social and a biological science. The relevance of the biological approach for many fields of psychology is demonstrated by the fact that biological bases of behavior are mentioned in most of the following chapters. The field that studies biological aspects of psychology and...
Psychological science: Content, methodology, history and profession
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
People have always had to study each other's behavior closely, but it was only in the nineteenth century that psychology emerged as an academic and scientific discipline, and only in the twentieth century that it also became a major field of professional activity. References to the human mind and...
Can Psychology become a Science?
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The project being undertaken here is one of an investigation into the possibility of a psychological science from a Jungian perspective. The project will consist of a series of 3,000 - 4,000 word essays (of which this is the first). The primary source used will be Sonu Shamdasani's Jung and the...
Importance of Critical Thinking, Active Reading and Effective Writing for Social Workers
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
There are important skills that every student should learn, whether they are in high school, community college, or at an affluent university. These skills include the ability to gain knowledge through critical thinking, and then applying that skill and knowledge to the processes of active reading...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Notes from Underground': The complex that forced the underground man to withdraw
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, Notes from Underground, centers on an anonymous narrator who shows signs of an inferiority complex and as a result becomes preoccupied with his own purpose and self worth. He becomes so obsessed with adding meaning to his life that fantasies often take over in order to...
Plasticity in face recognition during childhood: evidences from the reversibility of the 'other race' effect in adopted children
Essay - 11 pages - Psychology
People are better at recognizing faces of their own race than faces of another race. This so-called 'other-race' effect is present in adults but also in children as young as three years old. It can be reversed by subsequent experience with new types of faces, suggesting...
The possibility of psychology as a science
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
In this essay we will continue to discuss the possibility of a science of psychology. In part 1 we will discuss William James (1842-1910) ideas on this subject. A key theme in part 1 will be the subjective factor in psychology and will ask the question of how can psychology be a science if the...
Jung in context
Essay - 10 pages - Psychology
In part 1 of this essay we will outline the historical context of Jung's psychology. It will be evident from the start that Jung's thought was both rational and irrational and that he used the former quality to study the latter. In part 2 I argue that the Jungian community should come together in...
Psychoanalytic theory of personality
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
The theory of personality development is incredibly complex and highly significant to the world as a whole, and thus it is incredibly important to be able to realize and recognize not only the purpose of the theory of personality, but also all of the main details in regards to the theory and all...
Gender and sexual orientation's effect on lateralization and phonological language
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The subject of Gender influence on brain lateralization is a topic that has been explored in the scientific community. The consensus to this point is that gender does have an effect on lateralization and language. In proving this, it is important that the connection between gender differences...
Shadows of the self: personhood in recent ethnographies of imprisonment
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
The human individual holds the ultimate position of importance to ethnographic research. Undeniably, no aspect of anthropological study escapes the contact of a person, whether as a subject forming a data point in the research, as an informant providing wider arrays of information and...
Paraphilias
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
It is considered normal to have sexual fantasies and participate in sexual behavior, but when the fantasies and behaviors include inanimate objects, inflicting pain, or children, then others start to wonder if something is wrong with that person. One might be able to concur that a person like...
Homosexuality and the psychological field
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
Throughout the history of the psychological field, homosexuality has been viewed in a variety of different, and often contradictory ways. In the very beginning of the profession homosexuality was not viewed as within its realm of interest. Homosexual acts were considered, first as sins, and...
Bipolar disorder treatment and Vincent Van Gogh's creativity
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
The term bipolar disorder is used to describe patterns of manic or hypomanic behavior (which is "just under manic" in the way that a hypodermic needle slips just under the skin, for example - and it is also coupled with elevated, expansive or irritable moods) that may or may not alternate with...
Treating adolescent drug addiction
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Drug addiction and its treatment are complex issues for medical, psychological, and even legal and moral reasons. Addicts are vilified as objects of ridicule, but children are using intoxicating substances for the first time every day and substance abuse has occurred in almost every society in...
"If only we knew": Repetition compulsion in Chekhov
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
Although the examination of Chekhovian repetition can undoubtedly be explored through a method of means, no lens is more appropriate than that of Freud, not only the father of modern psychology but also the originator of the concept “repetition compulsion,” still a major component of...
