“How Can We Know if Psychoanalytic Claims are True?”
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This 10 page report discusses this question and whether or not psychoanalysis is a valid form of scientific investigation. The overall premises and practices of psychoanalysis are still quite controversial among numerous psychological professionals. Some “experts” claim that psychoanalysis is good science, others that it is bad science, and still others that it is not science at all. Interestingly, those actually in the psychology field who see psychoanalysis as good science may be the rarest group of all. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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“Humanistic Psychotherapy”
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A five page paper which looks the way in which new models of psychotherapy have evolved out of earlier theories of Freudian psychoanalysis and behaviourism, and concentrated instead on stressing the importance of a more holistic approach, in terms of the interaction between individuals and society. Bibliography lists 9 sources
Filename: JLhumanistpsych.wps

“Paul Griffiths: What Emotions Really Are”
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A five page paper which looks at Paul Griffiths’ reconstruction of the definition and analysis of emotion, with specific reference to his theory of socially constructed emotions and their relationship to the other types of emotional reaction which he posits. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: JLsocialemotion.wps

“Regeneration”: A Review of the Book by Pat Barker
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A 3 page overview of this based-on-fact expose of the field of psychiatry during World War I. This book tells the story of English officer and poet Siegfried Sassoon and his interactions with psychiatrist Dr. William Rivers at Craiglockhart War Hospital outside Edinburgh. Sassoon has refused to fight and been declared shell shocked. Rivers struggles with the question of whether it is ethical to treat Sassoon and his other patients with the sole goal of sending them back into armed warfare. No additional sources are listed.
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“The Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker
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This is a 7 page paper discussing Ernest Becker’s text “The Denial of Death”. Ernest Becker’s 1973 text “The Denial of Death” puts forth the premise that man’s preoccupation with his own mortality forces him to repress this possibility and in doing so adopts a belief system in order to be accepted into an “immortality system” for support and for the belief that life exists beyond current perception. For those people who are overly consumed by death and are unable to form a belief or a level of acceptance, they are victim to neurosis or mental illness. Others who accept death and are able to live successfully with the knowledge and acceptance of their eventual outcome can be considered heroic. Because the denial of death is responsible for the formation of cultures, scientific processes should not be used to influence this psychological process because man truly does know little about the ultimate foundations of life. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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“The Rocking Horse Winner” and Freud
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A 4 page paper which examines D.H. Lawrence’s story “The Rocking Horse Winner” and applies the Oedipal theories of Sigmund Freud. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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“Theories of personality development”
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An eight page paper which looks at some of the theories regarding the development of personality and the importance of biological impulses, reward and punishment, environmental influences and other extraneous factors in the way that personality traits manifest themselves and behavioural patterns are modified. Bibliography lists 3 sources
Filename: JLPerson.rtf