Key problems for psychology as a field of knowledge
Essay - 6 pages - Psychology
This essay will discuss the problems that constantly face psychology as a field of knowledge. Some fields of knowledge, notably the natural sciences such as physics, biology and chemistry are comfortable with their status and the demarcation between one another. There is only one physics…...
Educating children with special educational needs and disabilities
Essay - 7 pages - Psychology
Special Educational Needs (SEN) has a legal definition: children with SEN have learning difficulties or disabilities that make it harder for them to learn than most children of the same age. These children may need extra or different help from that given to other children of the same age. The SEN...
The importance of developing self-esteem in childhood
Essay - 9 pages - Psychology
The aim of this essay is to create a body of knowledge for a follow-on research on the subject of the impact of self-esteem on the behaviour of primary school pupils. For this purpose, information was gathered through observations as well as through study and analysis of materials presented in...
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...
Understanding the 'Different Voice': Toward a theoretical framework of moral reasoning in women
Book review - 11 pages - Psychology
Professor Carol Gilligan originally published her book, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, in 1982. The popularity of the book caused the book to go through numerous printings and its reissuing in 1993 by Harvard University Press. Known as the “little book...
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...
What is queer theory and how does it help explain the production of knowledge about sexuality?
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
The term “queer” is slang for homosexual. It is also a synonymous of odd, curious or suspect. It is also the most recent in a series of words that have constituted the semantic field of homosexuality. But “queer” is not simply the latest example in a series of words that...
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...
The distinction between internalism and externalism about moral motivation. Does Smith's argument against externalism work?
Thesis - 4 pages - Psychology
Moral motivation and the way it functions have raised many theories, still debated today. There are two main theories under discussion; internalism and externalism about ethical motivation, both of them being central in the explanation of the mechanism that lies between moral judgements of an...
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...
Synchronicity: Carl Jung's attempt to establish 'meaning' scientifically
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
When in his seventies, the Swiss psychologist extended his theory of the collective unconscious by throwing in synchronicity into the mix. This he did following a quarter of a century correspondence with the Nobel Prize winning physicist, Wolfgang Pauli. No longer was phenomena such as religion,...
A beautiful mind: Study of Schizophrenia
Thesis - 6 pages - Psychology
“Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?” (Grazer & Howard, 2001). The hell described in the previous quote is the hell of schizophrenia; of...
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,...
