Melvin Frankl: Mentally Divided

Life is not what everybody expects as days pass life changes and gets harder every day. In Hope’s boy, Andrew Bridge was a 5 year old boy who had the love from her mother and share a deep connection with, who thought that nothing else mattered. However, ended up getting separated from her mother at only 7 years of age because of her mother’s mental illness. Nevertheless, Andrew suffered from her mother’s separation having to be placed in a foster care and deal with loveless foster parents. Andrew was placed with the family Leonard’s who refuse to identify him as one of their children. Andrew experience emotional and physical abuse in the Leonard’s household. Mrs. Leonard was such a heartless person to Andrew. There was a time when little things will make Mrs. Leonard mad such as maybe Andrew leaving socks in the floor, not picking up after himself or maybe nothing at all and take it out on him. Andrew Bridge stated “Digging into my arms or grabbing at my face, she screamed that the foster child in front of her was ungrateful, lazy, obnoxious, confrontational, stupid, and undeserving. With her hand at my ear or at the base of my neck, she pulled me to the floor and through rooms” (181-182). This shows how the Leonard’s treated Andrew using physical abuse. Mrs. Leonard wanted to make Andrew feel what she felt when she was a young girl. As if Andrew didn’t had enough with Mrs. Leonard’s rejection he had to suffer being emotional abuse, bulled by Christopher Mrs. Leonard’s son.

Institutional care was condemned, as in many cases patients’ mental conditions deteriorated, and institutions were not able to treat the individual in a holistic manner. In many state institutions, patients numerously outnumbered the poorly trained staff. Many patients were boarded in these facilities for extensive periods of time without receiving any services. By 1963, the average stay for an individual with a diagnosis of schizophrenia was eleven years. As the media and newspapers publicized the inhumane conditions that existed in many psychiatric hospitals, awareness grew and there was much public pressure to create improved treatment options (Young Minds Advocacy, 2016). .

Therapy was initiated by George Ward, the biological father of Micky Ward and step-father of Dicky Eklund. George Ward has concerns over the crack addiction of Dicky and his history of criminal behavior that is used to support his drug habit. George initiated therapy after seeing a documentary on the downfall of his step-son due to crack addiction and no longer being able to live in denial along with the rest of the family. George is seeking family therapy in order to initiate the first step in Dickys’ sobriety and also to discover/ address any underlying issues that stem from Dickys’ past that may have initiated Dickys’ drug use. The entire family has agreed to become involved with the hopes of Dicky making a full recovery and being able

When a child experiences trauma, it stays with them for the rest of their life. When a child experiences abuse, one of the highest forms of trauma, they can do little to stop it from affecting everything they do. Tobias Wolff’s memoir, This Boy’s Life, Illustrates this. While it can be said that Rosemary, the mother of Jack, was in many ways responsible for his life, she herself can not solely be blamed. The trauma and abuse she experienced as a child contributed greatly to her choices, and her son’s life. This shows that adversity in Rosemary’s life lead to her not being able to act normally, and this caused the life of her son.

Coates’s appeal to pathos by using his experiences as a parent effectively allows his intended audience to experience his own feelings

In this passage, Gene goes to visit his friend Leper, who deserted the army after suffering hallucinations. Gene listens to Lepers stories about his experience and realizes that his friend has become mentally unstable and begins to fear for himself and his friends at school who will join the army once the year is over. Gene also seems to fear for his old friend Leper who left school early in order to join the army, Gene feels that Leper is too unstable to be left alone and is afraid that Leper might harm himself. This passage is Intertextual as I learned from the book “5th Business” that soldiers who come back from war are never the same, both mentally and physically due to the harsh living conditions in the trenches and the constant sight of death. I wonder if Leper suffered from “shell shock”, a common mental disorder of war veterans. This also relates to “About a Boy” as Marcus begins to worry for his mother who becomes mentally unstable and attempts suicide, Will begins to fear that his mother will try again and is convinced that he cant leave her alone.

Whether you agree with Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, or Erik Erickson, theoretical approaches to human nature all agree that early childhood years play a major part of our conscious and unconscious decisions we make. For instance, even though both Wes Moore’s were brought up without a father in their home, the reality is that these absences meant something different to each of them. For Wes 1 his father died an unnecessary death due to lack of training of emergency personnel. He remembered his dad as being compassionate, loving, and kind. Wes 1 always knew that if given the choice, his father would have stood by him throughout his life. Wes 2, however, is left with negative fatherly feelings. In the three times they were together, his own father acted as though he didn’t recognize him. What’s worse is that Wes 2 knew that his dad didn’t want to know him, he chose to leave. That left not only a hole where there should have been a very important role model, it left rejection in its place. When Wes 1 was visiting Wes 2 in the jail and asked about the impact his father had on his life, the second Wes said, “Your father wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, my father wasn’t there because he chose not to be. We’re going to mourn their absence in different ways” (Moore page 3). Later in the chapter Wes 1 gets emotional thinking about how he misses his father. He was left,

He talks about how much he loved his pets in a positive way, but then quickly swings in a dark direction and talks about the insanity they gave him. This is one of many examples in the book where cliches change the tone of the progressing story, showing the amateurity of Wortmann’s writing style. Each time a more known cliche was used, it could then easily be predicted that something bad was going to happen. This was not necessarily a bad thing. This kind of writing style made the book easier to read, and surprisingly more relatable to readers. The mood of the story fluctuates heavily just as tone, especially toward the climax of the book. Obsessive compulsive disorder has a huge effect on an individual’s emotions and this is very apparent in Wortmann’s writings. Once again the story starts off somewhat happy, then quickly evolves into a depressing story. At this point late into the book, Wortmann turns the story into a cry for sympathy, drastically changing the mood, “I quickly discovered that those afflicted with mental illness were the first to be silenced. We were alike but alone. We had no history of oppression” (242). While obsessive compulsive disorder is understandably a disadvantage not many people have to face, he took things too far. It leaves the reader to question whether to pity him or get mad for wasting

Based on a true story, the movie Antwone Fisher starts by going through his adulthood suffering from childhood trauma. Antwone Fisher was born in Cleveland Ohio. From the day he was born he was unwanted. He was born in a prison institution, to a single mother. His father was killed by another girlfriend just two months before his birth. His mother showed little to no interest in him, and searches for foster homes for him to live in. He is sent to live with Mrs. Tate family in Glenville, Ohio, and that’s where the nightmare of an upbringing begins filled with constant abuse. Antwone Fisher in my point of view points out realization to the whole adulthood how childhood plays a big role towards the older you. Throughout the essay I will explain why I believe Antwone Fisher is Diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Dyslexia, and childhood trauma through step to-step process of Antwone Fisher abused as a child, sexual, physical, and emotional rollercoaster.

What goes wrong, thus bringing a client into therapy? Rogers considers the problem to be lack of

Carl explain the dynamics of the family and how important it was to have Don at the initiation of the family session, and asked the family to think if they wanted to be a part of the family they are in, and if they did to call and set up a time for the next session with Don include. Dave did not hesitate and agreed to set up an appointment then and there; he looked over at his wife and asked he if she agreed. Carolyn agreed and towards the end of the session Carl connected with Laura the youngest daughter by engaging her in dialog and asking what she thought about everything that was going on in the family. By doing this Carl was able to show the family how every member of the family has a valuable place in therapy, and it is not just about one person.

Teenagers can have turbulent lives and can make life altering decisions. Andy’s relationship with his psychologist helps the reader understand what he, for all intents and purposes, is going through in a precise way. He made a bad decision by deciding it really was, despite his motives, okay to drink and drive. It was later suggested that he should talk to the psychologist because he felt it was a way to escape the realities that his parents’ were too hard on him. In the novel Tears of a Tiger, there is also some positives about his parents’ in that they raised him to care about others and the guilt he felt was sort of more than just what his, which is very significant. In the end of the novel his everything in his life became too much and he up committing suicide. These decisions were particularly a direct result of his parents’ treatment of him. Throughout the novel, Andy's family's issues have changed him as a person and made him make life altering decisions that changed the outcome of the story.

suffers horribly so that the rest can be happy” (Brooks). The child’s pain and loneliness is a

Ed McCoy, and his children were referred for counseling after experiencing the death of his wife and the mother of his children (Thomlison, 2016). Ed, now has become a single parent. Although his mother-in-law Grace lives nearby and appears to have a good rapport with his children the responsibility of raising his children alone is now his responsibility. Now, Ed has a multiplicity of emotions as he is also concerned about the health of his daughter inheriting the disorder that caused his wife’s death. After the loss of his wife Ed is in mourning over her, concerned about the health of his daughter long term, and questions himself on how he will parent these children alone (Thomlison, 2016).

In the early 1960 and or before this date the nation was plagued with the hippy cultural, the sexual revolution, psychedelic lights pills, pcp, heroin, cocaine and cannabis weed ( not all at the same time some reared its heads sooner than others), and the civil rights movement. This brought about an explosion of psychologist and counseling psychiatrist. Davis, Anthony, Brown (1975) Therapeutic approaches to children in residential treatment: Changes from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s.