Anti-psychairty in 1950

Although there are many different approaches to mental health care, services within England are predominantly designed and organized around a western, individualized and biologically understood approach. Psychiatric diagnosis has come under much scrutiny for not being holistic when trying to [...]

The space of insane person is a disturbing issue, tormenting to some degree level of individuals. Tolerates from time to time make pulled back direct, set apart by maladaptive identity properties. For a huge amount of time, different causes behind this issue have been evaluated, in any case the [...]

“Last September, Jeff Ingram, 40, drove from his home, Olympia, Washington, to visit a terminally ill friend in Alberta. Four days later, he woke up on a street in Denver…” (William Lee Adams). What happened to Jeff Ingram was he forgot his identity for four days and wandered the streets for an [...]

Evolutionarily speaking, mutations that are detrimental to a species eventually die out through the process of natural selection. Thus, if a trait has no adaptive qualities whatsoever, it will cease to exist. It is essential to keep that in mind when examining the evolutionary adaptations of [...]

During the early years of my life I’ve always wondered what I wanted to become in the future, at some point I wanted to become a hospital nurse, a scientist, a zoologist, a doctor and then an astronomer. My dreams didn’t really coincide with each other and obviously they were out of my league, [...]

Mental health as described by World Health Organization is a state of sound mind in which a person knows his or her capabilities, ability to handle stress in day to day basis, able to work effectively and relate to others and be involved in the community. Moreover, a good support system such as [...]

Passion for Post-Colonialism and Colonial Injustice/ Frantz Fanon’s passion for Post-Colonialism was sparked by the unjust treatment of French soldiers towards the Martiniquan people where they raped and sexually harassed the women. These troubling occurrences caused Fanon to despise French rule. [...]

Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by a certain set of traits. It can be broken down to 16 key characteristics combined of behavioural, interpersonal and cognitive. A psychopath can be described as an individual who suffers from constant antisocial behaviour, lack of remorse, lack [...]

Psychopathy is a form of severe personality disorder (APA, 2013; Blair et al., 2004). Dean and colleagues (2013) indicate that psychopathy is divided into two subgroups. Primary psychopathy (factor 1) is characterised by an emotional detachment which manifests in callousness and poor empathy. [...]