1. Schizophrenia
The personality theorist, according to the editor of one of the leading journals in the field (Funder, 1994), has "an interest in what individual human beings think, feel, and do," including "how the social situation affects and is affected by the individual." Personality theory, wrote Walter Mischel, is concerned not only with differences between individuals, but also with "the basic processes of adaptation through which people interact with the conditions of their lives" (Mischel, 1993). Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) One of the primary disorders of the personality is borderline...
One of the many psychotic disorders is schizophrenia which is also a thought disorder. This disorder mostly affects people aged 15 to 45, but can also affect other ages too. Only 1 percent of the population will be diagnosed with schizophrenia. There are two kinds of schizophrenia, process and react...
-Envision that you are sitting in a room and your child comes to you and says that someone is trying to kill him, there is someone in the mirror spying or that on the way to school the bus's radio was sending him special messages. Now what would you think? Like myself, you would probably think th...
A psychosis is any disorder of higher mental processes of such severity that judgments pertaining to the reality of external events are significantly impaired ("Psychosis." 569). The most common form of psychosis, extremely serious mental disorders, is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is an extreme ment...