Articles for tag: Alex Cross, Matthew Fox, Psychopathology

Karla News

Nature vs. Nurture and Development

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 ...

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Tom Hardy as Bane: Physical Transformation as Psychopathology

“Captain America” may yet be a game-changer in the world of actor preparation, but so far 2012 seems to prove that the exception isn’t yet the rule. The media has been glutted with stories about actors bulking up or slimming down ranging from Anne Hathaway’s crash diet of hummus and radishes to Andrew Garfield channeling ...

Introduction to Psychopathology

  Introduction to Psychopathology The study of mental illness and its corresponding abnormal behavior is commonly referred to as psychopathology or abnormal psychology. This type of study and treatment focuses on clinical therapy as a way of not only determining precipitating factors that indicate the presence or onset of a disorder, but the types and ...