The role of play in children's learning and development
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
"Learning for young children is a rewarding and enjoyable experience in which they explore, investigate, discover, create, practise, rehearse, repeat, revise and consolidate their developing knowledge, skills, understandings and attitudes. During the foundation stage, many of these aspects of...
Emotional and behavioural disorders in children
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
Most early years practitioners, child carers and parents report have some behaviour related problems with children at some time or another. However, the "behaviour disorder" label may only be warranted if those behaviours are persistent and impinge on the basic rights of others, if major...
David Hume's philosophy in relation to evidence based medicine
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Like other areas of medicine, treatment and management within psychiatry has increasingly been influenced by the growth of evidence-based medicine. A recent review article in the British Journal of Psychiatry starts with this observation: “Clinical effectiveness, evidence-based medicine...
Schizophrenia: An outline of its symptoms
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
In this essay we discuss the symptoms of schizophrenia. The general discussion of schizophrenia as a mental disease takes up most of this essay. However, in the conclusion to the essay we argue that Carl Jung's psychology can describe schizophrenic symptoms by using its own terminology but that...
An essay outlining the autistic condition and discussing what it can teach us about consciousness
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Many philosophers (e.g. Chalmers, Dennett, Crick, Blackmore, Penrose) have entered onto the psychological field and become interested in consciousness. Hence thinkers like Chalmers et al are happy to be called philosophers of the mind. Thinkers such as these tend to focus on questions such as...
Freud, Jung and Arnheim: Artist as visionary
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
Great artists are celebrated for their ability to create work that appeals to others on a grand scale, but what it is exactly that allows for this effect has been the subject of much debate among theoretical psychologists. To fully account for the unifying power of highly lauded art is to...
Alcohol dependence (Alcoholism)
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
The DSM IV refer to the terms "addiction", "dependence" and "alcoholism" interchangeably to mean individuals who have impaired control or dependence over drug use, and continue to behave in a manner which may previously have caused problems for the individual. The relationship with the drug is...
House M.D
Essay - 14 pages - Psychology
He's a brilliant doctor. He saves lives. But Gregory House is also selfish, manipulative, exploitative, controlling... and guess what... he regards all the rest of us as selfish, manipulative, exploitative, and controlling. Chapter 1 of this paper selects the dialogues from season 1 of House...
Three romantic philosophers who influenced Jungian psychology: Goethe, Shopenhauer and Nietzsche
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
In scientific materialism the human being's significance is reduced to atoms. Psychology (to some extent) comes to the rescue here in its emphasis on the psychic realities of thoughts and feelings. And the Romantics were also in opposition to the materialists. For them, the scientific...
What drives people to contribute online?
Essay - 14 pages - Psychology
The question of “why do people contribute online” is a particularly relevant topic in this new era of internet, called “web 2.0”. First of all, this phenomenon in interesting per se insofar as such a will to give, and to work without asking any compensation is somehow amazing....
Marie louise von franz : Jung collaborator and contribution to the Jungian worldview
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Marie Louise Von Franz (1915-1998) was a classical (or purist) Jungian. She was Carl Jung's main collaborator. She first met Jung at age 18. As Thomas Kirsch writes “When she was eighteen (1933) and was on a lass trip from school, she met Jung. She wanted to go into analysis with him, but...
Explain and discuss critically the role that Hegel attributes to 'work' in the development of self-consciousness in his account of the servant-master relationship
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
In the section entitled "Relations of Master and Servant" from The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), Hegel explains one stage of the development of consciousness. He begins by pointing out that only by acknowledging an "other" is self-consciousness possible: for example a teacher only recognizes...
In every mind, women have more chances to suffer from mental illness. Hence, discuss the notion of normativity within the issue of mental health care
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
In all societies, women have always been perceived as, physically but also mentally weaker than men. For a very long period, and even today in some parts of the world, women have not been considered as rational as men, but were rather seen as a “permanently subversive force within the...
Is heterosexuality "natural"?
Essay - 3 pages - Psychology
The most common definition of heterosexuality is that of a sexual identity of somebody who is sexually attracted to the opposite sex. According to Richardson, “[Heterosexuality] is constructed as a coherent, natural, fixed and stable category; as universal and monolithic.” But what does...
Outlining why it is important to possess a differentiated ego consciousness
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
This essay is influenced by (but in opposition to) Jungian psychology. Jung's psychology does not equate to culture and psyche running side by side with one another. Rather Jungian psychology splits culture and psyche by establishing compensation as a key principle. Hence, the psyche compensates...
Wolfgang Pauli's contribution to the Jungian worldview
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
Prior to Carl Jung's work on synchronicity his psychology consisted in ideas based solely on the inner world of the psyche. This was so regardless of whether Jung was thinking about personal psychological phenomena such as complexes or collective psychological phenomena such as archetypes. But...
Disruptive and violent delinquent girls: Behavioral causes and treatment options
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Delinquency among females is on the rise, with cases among adolescent females increasing by eighty-three percent between 1988 and 1997 (Leve and Chamberlain, 2004). While it is often found that girls are brought into custody for more minor offenses than boys, the proportion of females committing...
Thinking through Jung
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
This essay is radically ‘Post'-Jungian. As with other essays that I have written it can only exist due to the immersion within Jungian psychology. But in effect I am working through Jungian psychology. Hence one is indebted to Jung but nevertheless, most definitely post-Jungian. Carl Jung...
Contemporary key Post-Jungian thinkers
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) had a rational and irrational side. The rational side of Jung was scientifically orientated. It was an empirical side that studied psychic contents as psychological facts. Meanwhile the irrational side of Jung lapped up and experienced esoteric and numinous...
Creative psychology
Essay - 8 pages - Psychology
In this essay we discuss some selective creative areas of psychology; of interest to Depth Psychology. Part 1 discusses the influence of romanticism on the famous 20th century psychologist, Carl Jung. Part 2 discusses Jung's psychological perspective on the UFO phenomenon. Finally in part 3 we...
The evolution of Jungian depth psychology from Jung to Hillman and Giegerich
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
When Carl Jung wrote Symbols of Transformation1 in 1912 it not only signaled his split from Sigmund Freud. It also equated to the beginning of what is now nearly 100 years of Jungian Analytical Psychology. Sixty three years later, in 1975, James Hillman wrote Re-visioning Psychology.2 Whilst...
The state of psychology a 100 years ago
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
In this essay we will be looking into the state of psychology as a field of knowledge in the early years of the 20th century. A hundred years ago psychology had a wider geographical spread with a strong contribution not only in America but also even more so in Europe. (Switzerland, Germany,...
The ill ego-consciousness
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
Modern western ego consciousness equates to an ego that differentiates itself from the outer object or from the outer phenomena. And also the healthy differentiating ego is also stable. Hence, logically the psychologically ill person attaches too easily to outer-objects and to outer phenomena....
A Post-Jungian perspective on the psychology of the pre-modern person in today's modern western culture
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
The psychology that shall be articulated in this essay can from the outset be described as relatively pre-modern and relatively psychoanalytical. It is pre-modern because we will be focusing on the pre-modern psyche without arguing that it should be vanquished in favor of a modern psychological...
Jungian psychoanalytical cultural psychology
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
In this essay we are presenting a potential new Post-Jungian psychology. The psychology that I will be expressing is one of Jungian Psychoanalytical Cultural Psychology (JPC). One thing that I have noticed in my psychological studies is that the Jungian, psychoanalytical, Freudian, Adlerian (etc)...
Integrating Christian and secular counseling theories
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
An integrated and flexible counseling approach is outlined, which calls for competency in a number of techniques in order to serve a number of clients. Personality structure, motivation, and human development are discussed, addressing biological and environmental differences that account for...
The Psychological meaning of the UFO phenomena: Building on the work of C. G. Jung
Essay - 4 pages - Psychology
In this essay we will build upon the foundations laid down by the famous psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung concerning the value and relevance of the UFO phenomena. In part 1 we will outline Jung's basic view. Then in part 2 we will build on the theory arguing that the psychological meaning of the...
Beyond words and content based systems: Towards a psychologically creative social culture
Essay - 5 pages - Psychology
This essay is concerned with phenomena that comes within the domain of psychology. We will emphasize areas of psychology that are healthy. Hence it will be argued that for many people words (and content orientated systems) are inadequate for expressing life - yet unfortunately - they have been...
Relations between biological and social psychology
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
Psychology is both a social and a biological science. The relevance of the biological approach for many fields of psychology is demonstrated by the fact that biological bases of behavior are mentioned in most of the following chapters. The field that studies biological aspects of psychology and...
Psychological science: Content, methodology, history and profession
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
People have always had to study each other's behavior closely, but it was only in the nineteenth century that psychology emerged as an academic and scientific discipline, and only in the twentieth century that it also became a major field of professional activity. References to the human mind and...
