Well into the eighteenth century, the only types of mental illness – then collectively known as “delirium” or “mania” – were depression (melancholy), psychoses, and delusions. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the French psychiatrist Pinel coined the phrase “manie sans delire” (insanity without delusions). He described patients who lacked impulse control, often raged ...
Is a child’s personality and moral development based on their genetics or their environment? A psychologist named Donald Hebb once responded to that question by asking “which contributes more to an area of a rectangle, its length or its width?” (Puka, 2005) My view is similar to Donald’s, in that each child is inherently unique ...
DSM-IV diagnostic criteria states that for a person to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, two or more of certain symptoms must be present for a significant portion of at least a one month period. These symptoms include: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech (e.g., frequent derailment or incoherence), grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior, and negative symptoms, i.e. affective ...
If current estimates are correct and 1 in 25 people are a sociopath it would be good for one to at least read one article on detection to protect yourself from possible harm if you are in the midst of forming a relationship with one. After all, most of will meet at least 25 new ...
