Essays on Psychiatry

Psychopathy and Environment Psychopathy is not inherited, according to the psychiatrist consulted by the Ice Man, but is formed over time by people in conjunction with the environment in which they are. When Richard matured into an adolescent and young adult, he grew into children who became fearless, wounded, and bullied....

Introduction One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is an extraordinary novel that addresses both tyranny and revolt in 1950s American mental hospitals. The book was written in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movements when there were many shifts in the attitudes of psychiatry and psychology in America....

Although there are various types of psychiatric diseases, one of the more disabling mental conditions is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), it is little known by the medical community since it is characterized by two characteristics: fixation and addiction (Abramowitz, Taylor, McKay, 2009). With the emergence of unhealthy obsessions and...

The rampantness of neuropsychiatric condition increases everyday with people. It is increasing with pressures of work and stress, and this puts exposed people more at risk of neuropsychiatric diseases. The combination of several variables causes the disorder of central nervous system (CNS) level. Causes of abnormal mood changes are idiopathic...

A case that affects multiple persons is a psychiatric illness. 20 percent of people are trying to fight off mental disorders, according to the video. Various forms of mental disorders such as stigmatization, severe depression, OCD, Alzheimer s disease, alcohol dependence, schizophrenia, and many more are seen in the video The Gestalt Project:...

Is there any time I've ever contemplated committing suicide? Regrettably, yes. I sit in that corner every minute, suicidal feelings strike me, begging for transformation and change. Apparently, I'm alive every day, and I ask myself, what if I jumped on the street one day? All I need to do is...