This document discusses theories of melancholia, identification, and masculine psychosis from Freudian and Lacanian perspectives. It analyzes how melancholia forms gender identities through refusal of identification with the same-sex parent. For men, becoming masculine requires repudiating femininity and the mother as a love object. This creates an irreconcilable conflict between homosexual desire for the mother and masculine gender norms. The document questions how individuals like Reinaldo Arenas deal with this "panic" and argues they are condemned to repeat through "acting out" the identifications they wish to repudiate.
Schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self and behavior. It is considered one of the most complex disorders, with potential causes including genetics, infections, immune system problems and neurological dysfunction. Symptoms are classified as positive (hallucinations, delusions), negative (lack of emotions, social withdrawal) or cognitive (memory, attention issues). While there is no cure, treatment aims to manage symptoms and enable people to lead productive lives.
Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, emotional or erratic behaviors. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. Biological factors like genetics and hormones play a role in etiology. Psychological factors during development like attachment issues and maladaptive defenses also contribute to Cluster B personalities. Antisocial personality disorder specifically involves a persistent disregard for social norms with impulsive and aggressive tendencies, affecting mostly males.
This document discusses personality disorders and provides information about specific disorders. It defines personality disorders as long-standing, inflexible patterns of behavior that depart from cultural expectations and impair functioning. Specific disorders covered include paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder. Diagnostic criteria and characteristics of each disorder are provided. The document also discusses causes and treatments of personality disorders in general.
The document discusses parasomnias, which are abnormal behaviors or movements that occur during sleep or sleep transitions. It describes the different stages of sleep based on EEG patterns. It then discusses various parasomnias like sleepwalking, sleep terrors, confusional arousals, REM sleep behavior disorder, nightmares, and sleep paralysis. It provides details on characteristics, typical age of onset, precipitating factors, treatment options. It also discusses disorders like sleep talking, catathrenia, hypnic jerks, and excessive fragmentary myoclonus that are common and clinically insignificant. The document outlines investigations like polysomnography and neurological imaging that can help evaluate parasomnias.
This document discusses sexual disorders as classified by DSM-5. It covers four main types: sexual dysfunctions, gender identity disorders, psychological disorders associated with sexual development, and paraphilias (disorders of sexual preference). Specific dysfunctions discussed in detail include male hypoactive sexual desire disorder, female sexual interest/arousal disorder, erectile disorder, and others. Causes, diagnostic criteria, and treatments are provided for several disorders.
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Stereotypic movement disorderWajeeha Jiya
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and social interaction and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. It is diagnosed based on criteria from the DSM-5 and can range from mild to severe. Stereotypic movement disorder is also a neurodevelopmental disorder defined by repetitive, purposeless motor movements that interfere with activities and can cause self-injury. Both disorders typically emerge in early childhood and are included in the DSM-5 chapter on neurodevelopmental disorders.
The document discusses changes to the diagnosis of personality disorders in DSM-5. It notes that only borderline personality disorder showed good reliability in DSM-5 field trials. It introduces new concepts like cross-cutting symptom measures and assessing personality functioning. An alternative dimensional trait model for personality disorders is presented in DSM-5 for research purposes only. ICD-11 beta criteria also take a dimensional approach without specific subtypes. The multiaxial system is removed from DSM-5.
This document provides an overview of the phenomenology of schizophrenia, including a historical perspective on how it has been conceptualized over time. It describes the clinical manifestations and thought disorders commonly seen in schizophrenia, such as formal thought disorders involving disorganized thinking, disorders of thought flow/tempo, disorders of thought possession, and disorders involving delusional thinking. It also briefly discusses misidentification syndromes that can occur.
Schizophrenia is a chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language, sense of self and behavior. It is considered one of the most complex disorders, with potential causes including genetics, infections, immune system problems and neurological dysfunction. Symptoms are classified as positive (hallucinations, delusions), negative (lack of emotions, social withdrawal) or cognitive (memory, attention issues). While there is no cure, treatment aims to manage symptoms and enable people to lead productive lives.
Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, emotional or erratic behaviors. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. Biological factors like genetics and hormones play a role in etiology. Psychological factors during development like attachment issues and maladaptive defenses also contribute to Cluster B personalities. Antisocial personality disorder specifically involves a persistent disregard for social norms with impulsive and aggressive tendencies, affecting mostly males.
This document discusses personality disorders and provides information about specific disorders. It defines personality disorders as long-standing, inflexible patterns of behavior that depart from cultural expectations and impair functioning. Specific disorders covered include paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder. Diagnostic criteria and characteristics of each disorder are provided. The document also discusses causes and treatments of personality disorders in general.
The document discusses parasomnias, which are abnormal behaviors or movements that occur during sleep or sleep transitions. It describes the different stages of sleep based on EEG patterns. It then discusses various parasomnias like sleepwalking, sleep terrors, confusional arousals, REM sleep behavior disorder, nightmares, and sleep paralysis. It provides details on characteristics, typical age of onset, precipitating factors, treatment options. It also discusses disorders like sleep talking, catathrenia, hypnic jerks, and excessive fragmentary myoclonus that are common and clinically insignificant. The document outlines investigations like polysomnography and neurological imaging that can help evaluate parasomnias.
This document discusses sexual disorders as classified by DSM-5. It covers four main types: sexual dysfunctions, gender identity disorders, psychological disorders associated with sexual development, and paraphilias (disorders of sexual preference). Specific dysfunctions discussed in detail include male hypoactive sexual desire disorder, female sexual interest/arousal disorder, erectile disorder, and others. Causes, diagnostic criteria, and treatments are provided for several disorders.
Autism Spectrum Disorder and Stereotypic movement disorderWajeeha Jiya
Autism spectrum disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social communication and social interaction and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. It is diagnosed based on criteria from the DSM-5 and can range from mild to severe. Stereotypic movement disorder is also a neurodevelopmental disorder defined by repetitive, purposeless motor movements that interfere with activities and can cause self-injury. Both disorders typically emerge in early childhood and are included in the DSM-5 chapter on neurodevelopmental disorders.
The document discusses changes to the diagnosis of personality disorders in DSM-5. It notes that only borderline personality disorder showed good reliability in DSM-5 field trials. It introduces new concepts like cross-cutting symptom measures and assessing personality functioning. An alternative dimensional trait model for personality disorders is presented in DSM-5 for research purposes only. ICD-11 beta criteria also take a dimensional approach without specific subtypes. The multiaxial system is removed from DSM-5.
This document provides an overview of the phenomenology of schizophrenia, including a historical perspective on how it has been conceptualized over time. It describes the clinical manifestations and thought disorders commonly seen in schizophrenia, such as formal thought disorders involving disorganized thinking, disorders of thought flow/tempo, disorders of thought possession, and disorders involving delusional thinking. It also briefly discusses misidentification syndromes that can occur.
The document discusses various psychosocial and sociocultural factors that can influence abnormal behavior. Regarding psychosocial factors, it describes how early deprivation, trauma, inadequate parenting styles, marital discord, and maladaptive peer relationships can increase risks. For sociocultural factors, it outlines how poverty, marginalization, discrimination, social change/uncertainty, urban stressors, and crowding can also influence risks of developing abnormal behaviors. The document provides many examples and evidence from research to support the impact of these different factors.
The document summarizes several somatoform disorders including somatization disorder, conversion disorder, hypochondriasis, dysmorphic disorder, and pain disorder. It describes the key symptoms, diagnostic criteria, etiology, and treatment approaches for each disorder. The disorders are characterized by physical symptoms that cannot be fully explained by medical factors and are believed to be linked to underlying psychological issues. Treatment generally involves cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, and helping patients address the psychological stressors contributing to their somatic complaints.
This document provides an overview of various sleep disorders including:
1. Dyssomnias are primary sleep disorders involving changes in sleep amount, quality or timing including insomnia, hypersomnia, and narcolepsy.
2. Parasomnias are disorders where sleep physiology or behaviors are affected, such as nightmares.
3. Circadian rhythm sleep disorders result from a mismatch between sleep-wake patterns and environmental demands like jet lag or shift work.
4. Breathing-related sleep disorders interrupt sleep through breathing problems like sleep apnea.
This document discusses conversion disorder, also known as functional neurological symptom disorder. It defines conversion disorder as physical symptoms that are caused by psychological factors rather than medical conditions. The document covers the epidemiology, etiology, common symptoms, differential diagnosis, and clinical evaluation of conversion disorder. It also discusses specific types of conversion disorder like psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and provides clinical case examples.
Migraine is a severe headache that causes throbbing pain, nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. It typically affects one side of the head and can last for hours or days. Some people experience aura, sensory disturbances such as flashes of light, before the headache starts. Migraine often begins in childhood or early adulthood and involves four stages - prodrome, aura, attack, and postdrome - though not everyone experiences all stages. Triggers can include hormonal changes, foods, stress, sensory stimuli, sleep patterns, and medications. Treatment involves both pain relievers during attacks and preventive medications taken daily. Self-care like stress reduction, avoiding triggers, and getting enough sleep can also help
This document provides an overview of sleep, its functions, stages and disorders. It defines sleep as a state of unconsciousness where the brain is more responsive to internal stimuli. Sleep has restorative and homeostatic functions. There are two main stages - NREM and REM sleep. Dyssomnias are disorders of sleep quantity/timing and include insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy and sleep apnea. Parasomnias involve abnormal behaviors during sleep transitions and include nightmares, sleepwalking and REM sleep behavior disorder. Many common sleep disorders are described along with their symptoms, causes and treatment options.
This document defines delusions and describes different types of delusions. It states that a delusion is a false, unshakeable belief that is not accepted by the person's culture. Delusions can be bizarre, non-bizarre, mood congruent, or neutral. Common themes of delusions include persecutory, jealous, erotomanic, somatic, and grandiose delusions. The document also notes that delusional disorder involves only delusions, while schizophrenia involves delusions and other symptoms.
1. Anxiety disorders are abnormal states characterized by mental and physical symptoms of anxiety that are not caused by organic disease or other psychiatric disorders.
2. Phobias are irrational fears that are disproportionate to the feared object/situation and cannot be overcome through reasoning or willpower, causing the individual to avoid the stimulus.
3. Treatment for phobias includes benzodiazepines, antidepressants, behavior therapy using gradual exposure to the feared stimulus, and supportive psychotherapy.
This document provides an overview of schizophrenia, including its history, symptoms, causes, types, and treatment. Some key points:
- Schizophrenia was first identified in 1887 but can be traced back thousands of years. It is characterized by disturbances in thinking, emotion, and perception.
- Symptoms usually begin between ages 15-25 for males and later for females. Genetics and viral infections during pregnancy can play a role in causes.
- There are five types of schizophrenia with different symptom presentations. Treatment involves antipsychotic medication, therapy, social support, and lifestyle management. With proper treatment and management, many people diagnosed with schizophrenia can live normal, happy lives.
Types of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)Jennifer Lynn
Obsessive compulsive disorder is a serious psychiatric illness that affects millions of people worldwide. People with this disease struggle with intrusive thoughts and sometimes it leads to repetitive compulsive behaviour. For example, sometimes a patient might be inclined to count the lamp posts or shops on his way and if they suspect they have missed one, they go back and start the procedure all over again. They might also develop a tendency to check the doors and windows several times to make sure that they are bolted properly.
They might also double or triple check the phone numbers and are still not sure if they are using the correct one. What makes it worse is their tendency to repeat. Similarly, they can also be extra sensitive towards contamination. A trained medical practitioner or a therapist is needed to treat it. Therapies such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) can be highly effective in treating such illnesses. If you are looking for a qualified professional to treat your obsessive disorder try, www.therapytribe.com. It’s an online directory of therapists and counselors.
This document discusses stress and adjustment disorders, dissociative disorders, and somatoform disorders. It defines adjustment disorder and describes its causes and symptoms. It also defines dissociative disorders and lists several types including dissociative identity disorder. Somatoform disorders are defined as psychological conditions presenting with physical symptoms but no medical cause. The document outlines assessment, diagnosis, and treatment options including pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches for managing these disorders.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to recognize what is real. It is believed to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear thinking, hearing voices, reduced social engagement, and lack of motivation. Diagnosis is based on observed behavior and reported experiences, and involves meeting criteria in diagnostic manuals. Treatment primarily involves antipsychotic medication, which can help reduce positive symptoms within weeks but has limited impact on negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction.
This document outlines various psychiatric disorders affecting perception, thought, speech, emotions, motor behavior, memory, attention, orientation, consciousness, judgment, and insight. It describes in detail different types of illusions, hallucinations, formal thought disorders, mood disorders, memory disorders, and disorders of consciousness. The majority of the disorders discussed commonly occur in psychotic disorders like schizophrenia or organic mental conditions. The document provides psychiatric clinicians with definitions and classifications of key symptoms to facilitate diagnosis.
Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by excessive emotion, attention seeking, and inappropriate seductive behavior. It affects about 2-3% of the general population and disproportionately more women than men. Treatment involves psychotherapy and cognitive therapy to address issues like manipulation of others, unrealistic self-views, and risk-taking behaviors that can lead to depression when relationships end.
This document provides information about schizophrenia, including:
- Schizophrenia is a chronic severe brain disorder often characterized by hallucinations and delusions. Symptoms include disorganized thinking and behavior.
- It is currently diagnosed based on clinical symptoms rather than tests. Misdiagnosis is common as it shares symptoms with other disorders.
- There are positive symptoms like hallucinations and delusions, negative symptoms involving loss of functions, and cognitive symptoms involving difficulties with memory and concentration.
- Types include paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, and schizoaffective. Treatment involves medications and psychotherapy with the goal of controlling symptoms.
Sexual violence occurs throughout the world Available data suggest
that in some countries nearly one in four women may experience
sexual violence by an intimate partner and up to one third of
adolescent girls report their first sexual experience as being forced
Sexual violence has a profound impact on physical and mental health
As well as causing physical injury, it is associated with an increased
risk of a range of sexual and reproductive health problems, with both
immediate and long term consequences
Somatoform disorders are characterized by physical symptoms that cannot be explained medically despite the individual's belief that the symptoms are real. They include somatization disorder, conversion disorder, pain disorder, and hypochondriasis. Diagnosis involves ruling out physical causes through medical evaluation. Treatment focuses on psychotherapy to help express emotions verbally rather than physically, establish adaptive behaviors, and restructure beliefs. Medication may be used for comorbid mood disorders but not the somatoform symptoms themselves.
There are 10 personality disorders classified into 3 clusters: A) odd/eccentric behavior, B) dramatic/emotional behavior, and C) anxious/fearful behavior. Some disorders include paranoid personality disorder, characterized by distrust and suspiciousness, and avoidant personality disorder, characterized by social inhibition and feelings of inadequacy. Treatment may involve medication, psychotherapy, social skills training, and cognitive behavioral therapy.
This document discusses sleep, sleep disorders, and their diagnosis and treatment. It covers:
- The stages and functions of normal sleep
- Tools used in sleep medicine like polysomnography
- Common sleep disorders like insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea
- Treatment approaches including behavioral therapies, pharmacological options, and management of specific disorders.
Freudian psychoanalysis involves analyzing a patient's unconscious thoughts, dreams, and behaviors to understand their mental state. Key concepts in Freudian theory include narcissism, which stems from overindulgent parenting as a child, and the opposing life and death drives of Eros and Thanatos. Freud believed dreams were symbolic and often represented sexual desires, such as fruits symbolizing breasts. He also developed theories around anxiety, defense mechanisms, and the Oedipus complex. Over 500,000 practitioners now apply Freudian teachings worldwide.
LIT 229 Module Four 1 Introduction Myth and… .docxMARRY7
LIT 229 Module Four 1
Introduction: Myth and…
Given its nature as the wellspring of our knowledge about ourselves and the world, myth
should be found in all our ways of knowing, and it is. The phrase “ways of knowing” is
shorthand for those collections of beliefs, assumptions, discourse, values, and practices that
offer their own approaches for understanding the world and our place in it. This description
of ways of knowing sounds much like myth because myth itself is a way of knowing. The
point here is not to overlay myth onto all ways of knowing but to illuminate the relationship of
myth to them. For this module, we will analyze the role of myth in three prominent ways of
knowing: psychology, religion, and science. These three operate on a deeper layer than
particular genres for myth like art, literature, and film (will explore the latter two later) and
thus promise to illuminate myth by their own lights.
Myth and Psychology
At the heart of psychological ways of knowing sits a story. It is—like our most profound and
provocative stories—erotic, strange, traumatic, and Greek. Oedipus is the son of Laius and
Jocasta, the king and queen of Thebes. A prophecy declares that the young Oedipus will
grow up to commit the most horrible crimes imaginable—the murder of his father and incest
with his mother. Desperate to forestall these events, King Laius binds the boy’s feet
(Oedipus means “swollen foot”) and leaves him to die on a mountainside. As fate literally
would have it, shepherds find the boy, rescue him, and take him to the king and queen of
Corinth, who raise him as their own. Oedipus eventually hears the prophecy himself from the
Oracle at Delphi and leaves his known family at Corinth and heads, fatefully, to Thebes. On
the way there, he quarrels with a man who refuses to give way on the road, eventually killing
the man. Unknown to Oedipus, this man is Laius, his father. Upon arriving at Thebes, he
answers the riddle of the Sphinx, who is terrorizing the city, and is rewarded with the throne
of the dead king and his wife Jocasta, who is Oedipus’s mother. Upon hearing that the
prophecy had indeed been fulfilled, Jocasta commits suicide, and Oedipus blinds himself
and goes into exile.
2 LIT 229 Module Four
Freud Gives Birth to a Way of Knowing
In this myth, Sigmund Freud saw the central drama of the human psyche and by extension a
primal feature of the new discipline of psychology. He writes in his Interpretation of Dreams
that Oedipus’s:
destiny moves us only because it might have been ours—because the Oracle laid the
same curse upon us before our birth as upon him. It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to
direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our first hatred and our first
murderous wish against our father. Our dreams convince us that this is so. (295)
Without delving too deeply into Freud’s Oedipus complex, we can see that the myth provides
a story—Fr ...
The document discusses various psychosocial and sociocultural factors that can influence abnormal behavior. Regarding psychosocial factors, it describes how early deprivation, trauma, inadequate parenting styles, marital discord, and maladaptive peer relationships can increase risks. For sociocultural factors, it outlines how poverty, marginalization, discrimination, social change/uncertainty, urban stressors, and crowding can also influence risks of developing abnormal behaviors. The document provides many examples and evidence from research to support the impact of these different factors.
The document summarizes several somatoform disorders including somatization disorder, conversion disorder, hypochondriasis, dysmorphic disorder, and pain disorder. It describes the key symptoms, diagnostic criteria, etiology, and treatment approaches for each disorder. The disorders are characterized by physical symptoms that cannot be fully explained by medical factors and are believed to be linked to underlying psychological issues. Treatment generally involves cognitive behavioral therapy, medication, and helping patients address the psychological stressors contributing to their somatic complaints.
This document provides an overview of various sleep disorders including:
1. Dyssomnias are primary sleep disorders involving changes in sleep amount, quality or timing including insomnia, hypersomnia, and narcolepsy.
2. Parasomnias are disorders where sleep physiology or behaviors are affected, such as nightmares.
3. Circadian rhythm sleep disorders result from a mismatch between sleep-wake patterns and environmental demands like jet lag or shift work.
4. Breathing-related sleep disorders interrupt sleep through breathing problems like sleep apnea.
This document discusses conversion disorder, also known as functional neurological symptom disorder. It defines conversion disorder as physical symptoms that are caused by psychological factors rather than medical conditions. The document covers the epidemiology, etiology, common symptoms, differential diagnosis, and clinical evaluation of conversion disorder. It also discusses specific types of conversion disorder like psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and provides clinical case examples.
Migraine is a severe headache that causes throbbing pain, nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. It typically affects one side of the head and can last for hours or days. Some people experience aura, sensory disturbances such as flashes of light, before the headache starts. Migraine often begins in childhood or early adulthood and involves four stages - prodrome, aura, attack, and postdrome - though not everyone experiences all stages. Triggers can include hormonal changes, foods, stress, sensory stimuli, sleep patterns, and medications. Treatment involves both pain relievers during attacks and preventive medications taken daily. Self-care like stress reduction, avoiding triggers, and getting enough sleep can also help
This document provides an overview of sleep, its functions, stages and disorders. It defines sleep as a state of unconsciousness where the brain is more responsive to internal stimuli. Sleep has restorative and homeostatic functions. There are two main stages - NREM and REM sleep. Dyssomnias are disorders of sleep quantity/timing and include insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy and sleep apnea. Parasomnias involve abnormal behaviors during sleep transitions and include nightmares, sleepwalking and REM sleep behavior disorder. Many common sleep disorders are described along with their symptoms, causes and treatment options.
This document defines delusions and describes different types of delusions. It states that a delusion is a false, unshakeable belief that is not accepted by the person's culture. Delusions can be bizarre, non-bizarre, mood congruent, or neutral. Common themes of delusions include persecutory, jealous, erotomanic, somatic, and grandiose delusions. The document also notes that delusional disorder involves only delusions, while schizophrenia involves delusions and other symptoms.
1. Anxiety disorders are abnormal states characterized by mental and physical symptoms of anxiety that are not caused by organic disease or other psychiatric disorders.
2. Phobias are irrational fears that are disproportionate to the feared object/situation and cannot be overcome through reasoning or willpower, causing the individual to avoid the stimulus.
3. Treatment for phobias includes benzodiazepines, antidepressants, behavior therapy using gradual exposure to the feared stimulus, and supportive psychotherapy.
This document provides an overview of schizophrenia, including its history, symptoms, causes, types, and treatment. Some key points:
- Schizophrenia was first identified in 1887 but can be traced back thousands of years. It is characterized by disturbances in thinking, emotion, and perception.
- Symptoms usually begin between ages 15-25 for males and later for females. Genetics and viral infections during pregnancy can play a role in causes.
- There are five types of schizophrenia with different symptom presentations. Treatment involves antipsychotic medication, therapy, social support, and lifestyle management. With proper treatment and management, many people diagnosed with schizophrenia can live normal, happy lives.
Types of OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)Jennifer Lynn
Obsessive compulsive disorder is a serious psychiatric illness that affects millions of people worldwide. People with this disease struggle with intrusive thoughts and sometimes it leads to repetitive compulsive behaviour. For example, sometimes a patient might be inclined to count the lamp posts or shops on his way and if they suspect they have missed one, they go back and start the procedure all over again. They might also develop a tendency to check the doors and windows several times to make sure that they are bolted properly.
They might also double or triple check the phone numbers and are still not sure if they are using the correct one. What makes it worse is their tendency to repeat. Similarly, they can also be extra sensitive towards contamination. A trained medical practitioner or a therapist is needed to treat it. Therapies such as Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) can be highly effective in treating such illnesses. If you are looking for a qualified professional to treat your obsessive disorder try, www.therapytribe.com. It’s an online directory of therapists and counselors.
This document discusses stress and adjustment disorders, dissociative disorders, and somatoform disorders. It defines adjustment disorder and describes its causes and symptoms. It also defines dissociative disorders and lists several types including dissociative identity disorder. Somatoform disorders are defined as psychological conditions presenting with physical symptoms but no medical cause. The document outlines assessment, diagnosis, and treatment options including pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches for managing these disorders.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to recognize what is real. It is believed to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear thinking, hearing voices, reduced social engagement, and lack of motivation. Diagnosis is based on observed behavior and reported experiences, and involves meeting criteria in diagnostic manuals. Treatment primarily involves antipsychotic medication, which can help reduce positive symptoms within weeks but has limited impact on negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction.
This document outlines various psychiatric disorders affecting perception, thought, speech, emotions, motor behavior, memory, attention, orientation, consciousness, judgment, and insight. It describes in detail different types of illusions, hallucinations, formal thought disorders, mood disorders, memory disorders, and disorders of consciousness. The majority of the disorders discussed commonly occur in psychotic disorders like schizophrenia or organic mental conditions. The document provides psychiatric clinicians with definitions and classifications of key symptoms to facilitate diagnosis.
Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by excessive emotion, attention seeking, and inappropriate seductive behavior. It affects about 2-3% of the general population and disproportionately more women than men. Treatment involves psychotherapy and cognitive therapy to address issues like manipulation of others, unrealistic self-views, and risk-taking behaviors that can lead to depression when relationships end.
This document provides information about schizophrenia, including:
- Schizophrenia is a chronic severe brain disorder often characterized by hallucinations and delusions. Symptoms include disorganized thinking and behavior.
- It is currently diagnosed based on clinical symptoms rather than tests. Misdiagnosis is common as it shares symptoms with other disorders.
- There are positive symptoms like hallucinations and delusions, negative symptoms involving loss of functions, and cognitive symptoms involving difficulties with memory and concentration.
- Types include paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, and schizoaffective. Treatment involves medications and psychotherapy with the goal of controlling symptoms.
Sexual violence occurs throughout the world Available data suggest
that in some countries nearly one in four women may experience
sexual violence by an intimate partner and up to one third of
adolescent girls report their first sexual experience as being forced
Sexual violence has a profound impact on physical and mental health
As well as causing physical injury, it is associated with an increased
risk of a range of sexual and reproductive health problems, with both
immediate and long term consequences
Somatoform disorders are characterized by physical symptoms that cannot be explained medically despite the individual's belief that the symptoms are real. They include somatization disorder, conversion disorder, pain disorder, and hypochondriasis. Diagnosis involves ruling out physical causes through medical evaluation. Treatment focuses on psychotherapy to help express emotions verbally rather than physically, establish adaptive behaviors, and restructure beliefs. Medication may be used for comorbid mood disorders but not the somatoform symptoms themselves.
There are 10 personality disorders classified into 3 clusters: A) odd/eccentric behavior, B) dramatic/emotional behavior, and C) anxious/fearful behavior. Some disorders include paranoid personality disorder, characterized by distrust and suspiciousness, and avoidant personality disorder, characterized by social inhibition and feelings of inadequacy. Treatment may involve medication, psychotherapy, social skills training, and cognitive behavioral therapy.
This document discusses sleep, sleep disorders, and their diagnosis and treatment. It covers:
- The stages and functions of normal sleep
- Tools used in sleep medicine like polysomnography
- Common sleep disorders like insomnia, hypersomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea
- Treatment approaches including behavioral therapies, pharmacological options, and management of specific disorders.
Freudian psychoanalysis involves analyzing a patient's unconscious thoughts, dreams, and behaviors to understand their mental state. Key concepts in Freudian theory include narcissism, which stems from overindulgent parenting as a child, and the opposing life and death drives of Eros and Thanatos. Freud believed dreams were symbolic and often represented sexual desires, such as fruits symbolizing breasts. He also developed theories around anxiety, defense mechanisms, and the Oedipus complex. Over 500,000 practitioners now apply Freudian teachings worldwide.
LIT 229 Module Four 1 Introduction Myth and… .docxMARRY7
LIT 229 Module Four 1
Introduction: Myth and…
Given its nature as the wellspring of our knowledge about ourselves and the world, myth
should be found in all our ways of knowing, and it is. The phrase “ways of knowing” is
shorthand for those collections of beliefs, assumptions, discourse, values, and practices that
offer their own approaches for understanding the world and our place in it. This description
of ways of knowing sounds much like myth because myth itself is a way of knowing. The
point here is not to overlay myth onto all ways of knowing but to illuminate the relationship of
myth to them. For this module, we will analyze the role of myth in three prominent ways of
knowing: psychology, religion, and science. These three operate on a deeper layer than
particular genres for myth like art, literature, and film (will explore the latter two later) and
thus promise to illuminate myth by their own lights.
Myth and Psychology
At the heart of psychological ways of knowing sits a story. It is—like our most profound and
provocative stories—erotic, strange, traumatic, and Greek. Oedipus is the son of Laius and
Jocasta, the king and queen of Thebes. A prophecy declares that the young Oedipus will
grow up to commit the most horrible crimes imaginable—the murder of his father and incest
with his mother. Desperate to forestall these events, King Laius binds the boy’s feet
(Oedipus means “swollen foot”) and leaves him to die on a mountainside. As fate literally
would have it, shepherds find the boy, rescue him, and take him to the king and queen of
Corinth, who raise him as their own. Oedipus eventually hears the prophecy himself from the
Oracle at Delphi and leaves his known family at Corinth and heads, fatefully, to Thebes. On
the way there, he quarrels with a man who refuses to give way on the road, eventually killing
the man. Unknown to Oedipus, this man is Laius, his father. Upon arriving at Thebes, he
answers the riddle of the Sphinx, who is terrorizing the city, and is rewarded with the throne
of the dead king and his wife Jocasta, who is Oedipus’s mother. Upon hearing that the
prophecy had indeed been fulfilled, Jocasta commits suicide, and Oedipus blinds himself
and goes into exile.
2 LIT 229 Module Four
Freud Gives Birth to a Way of Knowing
In this myth, Sigmund Freud saw the central drama of the human psyche and by extension a
primal feature of the new discipline of psychology. He writes in his Interpretation of Dreams
that Oedipus’s:
destiny moves us only because it might have been ours—because the Oracle laid the
same curse upon us before our birth as upon him. It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to
direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our first hatred and our first
murderous wish against our father. Our dreams convince us that this is so. (295)
Without delving too deeply into Freud’s Oedipus complex, we can see that the myth provides
a story—Fr ...
This document provides an overview of psychoanalysis and its development. It discusses how psychoanalysis emerged from 18th century intellectual movements and was further influenced by 19th century thinkers. The document then focuses on Sigmund Freud and his development of psychoanalytic theory, including his concepts of the id, ego, and superego; psychosexual stages; and defense mechanisms. It also notes some common criticisms of psychoanalysis and Freud's theories.
Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. Some key points of his theory include:
1) He proposed the collective unconscious - a reservoir of experiences shared by humanity that influences our behaviors and emotions. It contains archetypes - innate tendencies to experience things in certain ways.
2) Major archetypes include the mother, representing nurturing relationships, and the shadow, representing repressed desires and the "dark side" of humanity.
3) Dreams, myths, and spiritual experiences across cultures provide evidence of the collective unconscious and archetypes. Near-death experiences in particular suggest we are "built" to experience death in similar ways.
4) Jung diverged from Freud by arguing archetypes
This document discusses various approaches to psychoanalysis and its application to cultural theory and popular culture. It explores Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, cine-psychoanalysis, and Slavoj Zizek's Lacanian perspective on fantasy. Key aspects covered include the unconscious, the structure of the psyche, the mirror stage, language and lack, scopophilia and the male gaze in film, and fantasy as a frame through which we understand reality.
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Melancholia, identification, and the question of masculine psychosis in reinaldo arenas
1. Melancholia, Identification, and the
Question ofMasculine Psychosis
Presentation made by
Ronald Simoes
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2. Id, Superego and Ego
Pleasure principle Reality principle
Id Super Ego
EGO EGO
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3. Only penis Freud's Psychosexual Stages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOoYX45G_0
At this moment,
a person might become
narcissistic
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4. Lacan and Freud
Infant's development
No clear distication between
object and subject, itself
and the external world.
Freud: Pre-oedipal stage
Lacan: Imaginary
Lacks any defined center of
self.
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5. Oedipus and Electra complex
Oedipus complex is for Freud the beginnings of
morality, conscience, law and all forms of social
and religious authority.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOoYX45G_0
1:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA35ys91QJU
How does this commercial contradict the classical
Oedipus complex?
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6. Gender + sexuality
Melancholy and gender Refusal - Butler
Philosophy and Maternal body – Walker
Classical Freudian Oedipus complex
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7. Arena’s Dream
En otro sueno, quiero acercarme a la casa donde estaba mi
madre y hay una tela metálica frente a la puerta. Llamo y llamo
para que me abran la puerta; ella y mi tía están al otro lado de la
tela metálica y yo les hago señales, me llevo la mano al pecho y
de mi mano empiezan a salir pájaros, cotorras de todos los
colores, insectos y aves cada vez más gigantescas; comienzo a
gritar que me abran, y ellas me miran a través de la tela metálica;
yo sigo produciendo toda clase de gritos y animales, pero no
puedo cruzar la puerta. (Arenas 1992: 336)
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8. Cathexis
In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of
investment of mental or emotional energy in a
person, object, or idea
Freud conceptualized the question of energy directed at
the self versus energy directed at others, called
cathexis
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9. Reinaldo can ultimately hope to internalise (and hence,
“precipitate of abandoned object-cathexes”
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10. Abandoned object-cathexes
The Ego and the Id”, the final character of the ego to a “precipitate of
abandoned object-cathexes” containing “the history of those object-choices”
At its most radical, Freud’s theory thus implies that identification is not
subsidiary or “exterior” to an allegedly pre-established, “original” self (i.e.
the “Self” qua hupokeimenon, as an entity which literally “under-lies” its
identifications); on the contrary, the subject consists of nothing except those
identifications, identifications which, taking the place of abandoned cathexes,
turn it into a “sedimentation” or “archaeological reminder” (the phrase is
Judith Butler’s) of objects once loved and lost (Butler 1997: 133)
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11. Mourning and Melancholy
In his 1917 essay “Mourning and Melancholy”, Freud
recognizes two mutually exclusive responses to loss
— mourning [Trauer] and melancholia
[Melancholie]. This sharp distinction between the
two responses has long since become almost
synonymous with the understanding of a normal
versus a pathological reaction to loss, and the clear
demarcation between them.
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13. Melancholic identification
Theory of gender as a melancholic identification. Such a theory will enable us to
gain a deeper understanding of Arenas’s relationship to the maternal figure
in Antes que anochezca, under whose light the idea of “acting out”
(understood as the manifestation of an unconscious desire to be or to stand in
for the mother) will give us the final key to the interpretation of the book.
saint
Melancholic identification
witch
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14. Castration
Freud Sprengnether
EGO – From Castration – Oedipus complex EGO- From mourning
Mother’s body is plenitude Mother’s body is strange and different
Father/ phallus No father / There is loss
Separation from the protecting mother at birth Loss and division. Mother is the other, not me.
The very existence of the ego is coincident
with the awareness of loss, there is no time
at which mother has not been Other”
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15. Arena’s Loss and double
Freud enabled us to realise, he preserved the mother as part of himself as a way of
staying or disavowing the recognition of her loss. What I presently wish to
emphasise, however, is the fact that, at a more superficial level, the mother
constitutes also, in Antes que anochezca, a signifier which Reinaldo constantly
repudiates or escapes from (“huir”) in an attempt to retain a sense of “his own”
identity
The state of division experienced as
consciousness is mirrored in [the
mother’s] body as the site of division
itself […]
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16. Phallus or Self-castration
Some crucial consequences of such insights, for feminism as well as
for psychoanalytic theory in general, is the collapsing of the very
hierarchical relationship between the Oedipal and pre-Oedipal periods
(or in Lacan’s terms between the Imaginary and Symbolic stages): no
longer associated with the intervention of the father/Phallus, the
child’s knowledge of “castration” (and hence his/her access to the
world of symbolic relations) are now considered to begin “with the
onset of life itself”( page 73)
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18. “Normal sexuality”
Butler’s “Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification” analyses the
existence of the “normal” (heterosexual) “masculine” versus
“feminine” identity as the result of a primary (homosexual) object-
choice—one involving the parental figure of the same sex,
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19. Butler – Man and femininity
Becoming a “man” within this logic requires repudiating femininity as a
precondition for the heterosexualization of sexual desire and its fundamental
ambivalence […]
Indeed, the desire for the feminine is marked by that repudiation: he wants
the woman he would never be. He wouldn’t be caught dead being her:
therefore he wants her […]
His wanting will be haunted by a dread of being what he wants, so that his
wanting will also always be a kind of dread.
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20. Drag
[D]rag exposes or allegorizes the mundane psychic and performative
practices by which heterosexualized genders form themselves
through renouncing the possibility of homosexuality
[…] Drag thus allegorizes heterosexual melancholy, the melancholy by
which a masculine gender is formed from the refusal to grieve the
masculine as a possibility of love; a feminine gender is formed
(taken on, assumed) through the incorporative fantasy by which the
feminine is excluded as a possible object of love. (1997: 146
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21. Desire and Gender
Homosexual desire, if we choose to stay within the classical Freudian
parameters, presents clear incompatibilitie s with “gender Butler notes,
“homosexual desire thus panics gender how can a (homosexually identified)
man acknowledge and properly “grieve” the mother as a love object without
succumbing to an identification which threatens to do away with his
“masculinity” qua constituted both from the disavowal of a primordial
libidinal bond to the father, and from a repudiation of “femininity”?
Cathexis – Love object
Repudiate femininity but
at the same time the
mother is the love
object, and he has his
libidinal energy towards
man.
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22. Question?
How can Reinaldo deal with the “panic” of mourning and recognising
the mother as part of “himself” vis-a`-vis an identification which is
clearly incompatible with his existence within the (heterosexualised )
matrix of a “masculine” versus “feminine” identity?
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23. Mirrowing
Reinaldo fails to recognise the ways in which his “huidas” and
“abandonments” (of the mother) cannot themselves avoid the
identificatory pattern (cannot themselves avoid “repeating” or
“miming” the very model from which they wish to part).
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24. Reinaldo’s self-confessed answer, as we have seen, is to run
away, to “repudiate”: “My whole life had been a constant
running away from my mother
[…] [I] could only abandon my mother or become like her”
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25. Conclusion
“pervasive melancholia” which characterises a “masculine”
versus “feminine” identity leads to the question of
unconscious “miming”, of “repetition” understood in the
Freudian sense of “acting out”: “Melancholy is both the
refusal to grief”
As Dylan Evans indicates in his entry on “acting out” in the Introductory
80 “A BOY’S BEST FRIEND IS HIS (M)OTHER” Dictionary of Lacanian
Psychoanalysis: “If past events are repressed from memory, they return by
expressing themselves in actions; when the subject does not remember the
past […] he is condemned to repeat it by acting it out”
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26. Arena’s
The choice of sexual “promiscuity” in Arenas’s adult life, which at an
analytical level reproduces rather than challenges the position of (constitutive
) grief that characterises the mother in regard to the lost husband/Phallus.
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27. Problems
What are the possible problems for the Oedipus
complex in relation to the Melancholic theory?
Sexist? Phalocentric?
Psychoanalysis used as a medical practice is a form
of social control?
Which theory presents only one model for
sexuality?
Indigenous societies with a 3rd gender? Western-
centered?
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