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Clinical Psychology Clinical psychology is described as “a general practice and health service provider specialty in professional psychology (“Archival Description of Clinical Psychology,” 2004).”  Psychologists practicing clinical psychology are required to make assessments, diagnoses, and predictions in order to prevent as well as treat psychopathology in addition to mental disorders.  They may also be required…

            Therapeutic alliance pertains to the mutual relationship between a counsellor and patient seeking psychotherapy from the health professional (Botella et al., 2008).  This type of interaction has been determined to be as an essential feature of psychotherapy in the 1970’s and it is generally based on a number of features.  Firstly, a therapeutic alliance…

Psychoanalytic Critique of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds In the late nineteenth century, Sigmund Freud developed the first framework for psychoanalytic theory expressing that our unconscious mind is truly responsible for our thoughts, desires, and overall emotions. His theory establishes that childhood experiences are crucial in individual development and sexual or aggressive drives shape all of…

Peter D. Kramer, M.D. tells of his first experience with Prozac involving a woman named Tess. Tess was the eldest of 10 children, born to a passive mother and an alcoholic father. Tess was physically and sexually abused as a child. When Tess was 12 her father dies and her mother entered a clinical depression…

No, drug companies hat test experimental drugs in foreign countries are not acting ethically. These companies are taking advantage of the inferior educational and socio-economic situations that exist in these developing nations. In the article by Nail Nett, an advisor on health care issues for Penman, Malaysia is quoted as saying, “Relaxed or nonexistent regulatory…

Defining the Core Constructs of Deadlier Therapy When Gina says she is determined, Dry. Carlson asks her where her determination is directed. What is his intent? Gina responds with happiness. Her own and her two boys. His intent is to get her to focus on the good and the progress made. He trying to scaffold…

INTRODUCTION Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was a Canadian sociologist and a writer. As a sociologist he gained immense fame. This was because he was able to analyze the face-to-face human interaction and hence draw inferences from them. Being a sociologist he stressed the fact that “society always comes first”. As a writer he wrote a number…

Introduction Amyloidosis refers to a group of disorders in which usually soluble proteins become insoluble, fibrous proteins, referred to as amyloids. In humans, there are 25 different proteins that can take up this fibrillar conformation in vivo (Gillmore and Hawkins, 2013). Amyloids are deposited in the extracellular space of almost any organ or tissue (Murakami…

“Mason’s Hierarchy of Needs” Mason’s hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Moscow in his 1943 paper ‘A Theory of Human Motivation” in Psychological Review. Moscow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans’ innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, some of which…

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