...Eccentricity vs. Personality disorder While researching strong female women in New York City history, I found myself drawn to the character of Mrs. Henrietta Howland Robinson (Hetty Green). The more I researched the life of Hetty the more questioned her mental health or lack of it. Why was it so hard for her to spend money? How had money become her the must imported thing in her life. What made her need to kept her fortune so close and what keep her from enjoying the basic comforts of life she could have easy afforded? Was Hetty Green just an eccentric old rich lady or could she have been suffering from a mental illness or a personality disorder? Hetty Green was one of the first female financiers to handle her own fortune and investments in the 1800s. Hetty Green was known as “The richest woman in America” (Slack, 2004) as well as earning herself the nickname of “The Witch of Wall Street.” (Sparkes, Boyden.1936) The origin is on clear of the nick name of “Witch of Wall Street” One source stated that is it come from the book written in 1936 by Boyden Sparkes and Samuel Taylor Moore titled “The Witch of Wall Street, Hetty Green.” Here is a quote from authors “When, however, Mrs. Green next appeared in New York she was wearing her mourning and for years thereafter she was never seen on the street except with a heavy swathing of black veil. It was this garment, perhaps, as much as anything that caused her to be spoken of as the Witch of Wall Street.” (Sparkes, Boyden...
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...personality disorders can continue for the rest of a person’s life. One particular personality disorder that will be discussed throughout this paper will be “Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD).” According to Phillipson (n.d), OCPD is a “pervasive characterological disturbance involving one’s generalized style and beliefs in the way one relates to themselves and the world.” Persons who suffer with OCPD are usually rigid in their dysfunctional beliefs and fully see their way of acting or doing things as the “right” way. Their general style of connecting to their environment or surroundings is developed through their own firm standards. OCPD must not be confused with OCD. Although they both are compulsive disorders, they are characterized differently with different meaning. An example of OCD would be someone who compulsively washing their hands, while on the other hand, a person with OCPD is inflexible and does not like it when the way of doing things is disrupted. As this paper unfold, we will examine and discuss the relationship between human development and socialization and how this relationship impacts obsessive compulsive personality disorder in accordance with the DSM-IV classification (Grayfallos et al., 2010). The paper will further discuss the population, incidence, prevalence, and significance of OCPD, as well as behavioral dimensions, psychosocial dimensions, environmental dimensions, prevention, and public health policy implications of OCPD. Define the...
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...or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something. People that suffer from OCD are often entirely consumed by these compulsions that it can be difficult to function normally on a regular basis. There are many facts, myths, and beliefs about how OCD works, came about, treated and coped with. The history of when OCD was first noticed is not set in stone but it is believed that the first belief was around the European Renaissance about 14th to 16th centuries. “One belief that began to be abandoned was the superstitious notion that mental illnesses were caused by the devil, demons, or supernatural forces.” ("Short history of," 2009) Compulsions brought on by OCD were called scrupulosity. Sufferers of OCD where mainly treated in the clergy. By the 1700’s the clergy were deferring to physicians to help people suffering from OCD. There were not very many treatments at this time and had to use the tools they did have to try and help the compulsions. The first treatment reported was bloodletting or a phlebotomy. This is when the doctor would drain blood from the sufferer in a effort to adjust the bodily “humors”("Short history of," 2009)In the 1700’s they did not know how to treat OCD as a whole but focused on the compulsion instead. For example, one woman reported having harmful thoughts about her children and stomach problems so she was treated with laxatives and enemas. Some cases of OCD in the 1700’s were compulsive washing, compulsive checking, and obsessive fear of...
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...affects obsessive-compulsive disorder. Anxiety Disorder Anxiety is something that each and every person experiences at some point in their life (Chakraburtty, 2009). An individual who has an anxiety disorder can have feelings of fears and worries that can cripple the individual (Chakraburtty, 2009). An anxiety disorder is stated to be a serious mental illness and can interfere with an individual living a normal life (Chakraburtty, 2009). Symptoms of anxiety disorder include feelings of fear and panic, obsessive thoughts, nightmares, repeated thoughts, problems sleeping, palpitations, nausea, muscle tension, inability to stay still, and dizziness (Chakraburtty, 2009). Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is one type of anxiety disorder OCD can be a disabling illness that can trap an individual in endless cycles of repetitive...
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...Bab I Pendahuluan I.A. The Nature of Anxiety Rasa takut merupakan emosi normal individu terhadap ancaman dari lingkungan. Anak usia pra-sekolah biasanya takut akan perpisahan, gelap, orang asing, imaginery beings, dan binatang sedangkan anak usia sekolah biasanya takut akan kemunkinan terluka, kesendirian, gelap, dan binatang. Dalam proses perkembangan normal, anak dapat mengatasi rasa takut itu dengan menggunakan adaptive defense mechanism. Misalnya, setelah mimpi buruk seorang anak mengingatkan dirinya sendiri bahwa itu hanyalah mimpi dan bukan sesuatu yang nyata. Anak juga dapat menilai besaran rasa takutnya terhadap sebuah stimulus tertentu. Misalnya, seorang anak dapat menilai bahwa saat ini stimulus itu terlalu menyebabkan kecemassan sehingga untuk sementara dia tidak akan pergi ke arah stimulus itu. (Wenar & Kerig, 2005) Seorang anak dikatakan memiliki gangguan kecemasan apabila rasa takut tersebut berlebihan dan anak gagal menggunakan defense mechanism untuk mengatasi rasa takut itu. Perbedaan gangguan kecemasan dan rasa takut yang normal teletak pada intensitas situasi, perilaku maladaptif, persistence, di luar kontrol anak, dan tidak dapat dijelaskan ataupun diselesaikan. (Wenar & Kerig, 2005) I.B. Anxiety Disorders Dalam dua puluh tahun terakhir ini, pemahaman mengenai psikopatologi, course, dan ketidakmampuan berkaitan dengan gangguan kecemasan mengalami kemajuan. Sebelumnya, kecemasan dianggap sebagai bagian yang normal dalam perkembangan...
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...Wednesday, April 9, 2014 PSY/460 - WEEK ONE SHORT ANSWER Environmental psychology is likely to be a new field for you, although many of the concepts are probably familiar. Provide your own definition of the discipline. Discuss an important milestone or influence in the development of environmental psychology and provide reasoning as to why you chose this one. Environmental psychology is a branch of psychology that studies how the environment affects individuals, and vice-verse. There is a reciprocal relationship between people and the environment they live in, as they both affect each other. The relationship between nature and the human species has been an object of study for many decades, and understanding this relationship can help individuals learn about the importance of conserving and maintaining the world that supports them (Steg, 2013). The environment provides humans with food, water, air, and all the other necessities individuals need to survive, even if, in a world dominated by technology and progress, it is easy to forget that one way or another, everything we need to survive comes from the earth. Environmental psychology focuses not only on the physical influences humans and environment have on each other, but also in which ways nature affects individuals’ behaviors. One important aspect of this discipline is the belief that people’s behaviors are not determined solely by the environment (Steg, 2013). Most psychologists in this area believe in free will...
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