[hallucinations]. " This is an extremely important topic because people with mental disorders should be treated differently from normal criminals. ... Instead proper medical help needs to be administered to the offender, so their disorder can be treated, insuring they become clear of acceptable behavior and can be an asset to society. The importance of finding out if a criminal has a mental disorder, like schizophrenia is extremely important. So much so that all offenders of the law are subject to psychological examination and review by a psychologist to ascertain the...

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Sickness, on the other hand, carries the idea of illness that is a disordered, weakened or unsound condition. ... The symptoms of beauty sickness can be evaluated and diagnosed in physical, psychological and social terms accordingly. ... Specifically, they report "of the approximately ten million people with serious eating disorders that influence them to make themselves much slimmer, 9.5 million are women. ... Moreover, this kind of unreasonable interior pressure often leads to psychological, physical or social uneasiness, as a result. Those with beauty sickness might physically lose the ...

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Abnormal behavior - patterns of emotion, thought, and action considered pathological (diseased or disordered) for one or more of the reasons: 1. ... IF the use of alcohol interferes with a person's normal social or occupational functioning, the person may be diagnosed with a substance related disorder. 3. ... Rather than rely on objective statistical measures or evidence of disability, for some disorders mental health professionals prefer to use an individual's own judgment of his or her level of functioning. ... On the other hand, many people with true alcohol-dependence dis...

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Psychological disorders are displayed throughout all genres of the film industry. For audiences, disturbances of psychological functioning and behavior are so commonplace in popular media that a disassociation of a serious problem, or, an exaggeration of facts can occur. ... Especially with treatments and drugs available to control the disorder. The explanation for Norman's disorder had a very Freudian flavor, which one would expect of the time this film appeared in theaters. One must consider that this film was released in 1960, almost the dark ages as far as an understanding of the phys...

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Until December 10th, 1977 homosexuality was considered a psychological disorder in the United States. On that day, the American Psychiatric Association dropped homosexuality as a disorder, because it was no longer believed to be connected with psychological problems. A psychological disorder is defined as "a condition in which behavior is judged to be atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and unjustifiable." ...

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In both gender roles and eating disorders, the social influence can great. ... The social influence on gender roles does not typically cause enough psychological harm to an individual to warrant any intervention or therapy. ... Eating Disorders The second form of behavior that is influenced by others is eating disorders. There are three types of eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia nervosa and binge eating. ... For many victims of sexual abuse that develop an eating disorder, they come to believe that the eating disorder is a way to survive or cope with the abuse (Farrar, 2014). ...

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Divorce effects a child in the short and long run, and can cause permanent social, psychological, and emotional damage. ... Some short term effects on children following divorce include depression, learning difficulties, and psychological problems occurring more often than children of intact families (Kirn 77). ... Children become more aggressive towards authority and develop psychological disorders later in life. ...

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As a result of weight gain, people began to have some psychological problems. Psychological consequences of being overweight can include lowered self-esteem and anxiety. ... This causes more serious disorders such as depression. ... Social isolation may be expressed through social barriers, or psychological mechanisms. ... This also causes some psychological problems or depression. ...

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But such a disruption is technically impossible because it would entail insupportable disorders for man. ... Involuntary and voluntary action are both to be observed, for example, in the sphere of psychological collectivization. ... I shall refer to one other striking phenomenon of involuntary psychological collectivization; advertising. ...

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Psychological theories explain how the criminal behavior was learned, from family and friends, T.V, and criminal behavior also depends on what you are capable of and the nature of their personality. ... A criminal is made up of greed, aggression, psychopathic, rejected, no sensitivity or feeling, have a personality disorder, the person is lonely or is just plain crazy. ...

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