Sample Case Conceptualization Case Study Norman Bates

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the main treatments for dissociative identity disorder are psychotherapies including cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2018). Dr. Wilber took an empathetic stance when treating her and supported her. This empathy and support lead Sybil to trust Dr. Wilber which overall lead to more effective treatment. Hypnosis was done to treat

Anna O was 21 year old patient of Breuer. Anna O had developed strange symptoms while taking care of her father who was ill. She developed a cough along with paralysis, hallucinations, hysteria, and loss of feeling in her arms and legs as well as muscle spasms. Breuer could not figure out why Anna was experiencing these types of symptoms so he deemed it hysterical neurosis (Heller, 2005). While under hypnosis Anna’s symptoms were not as severe and she could recall dramatic events that had taken place in her life prior to her symptoms. We now know that Freud used Anna’s case to help develop his clinical experience even though he never treated or worked with her. Freud implemented free association into clinical practice that allowed the patient to speak freely and express their opinions about

Pt presented at NNBHC with his mother with psychosis, and ritualistic behaviors that have increased. Pt states that he has been having audio and visual hallucinations at night where he hears whispers. Pt states of also seeing “clowns, demons, spirits and bigfoot”. Pt states when he has AV hallucinations that he counts to 2 or 4 and becomes fidgety which helps decrease the hallucinations. Pt also states that everything have to be on the left side due to him being left handed and nothing can be on the right side which makes him upset. Pt states that he has been having spells of confusion where he seems to lose time, or is often confused when communicating. Pt states that he has became recently aggressive towards mother throwing times due

Personally to us, the director’s intention was to show how the psychology state of a man depending on his condition can affect his life and those around him. In this case, Norman Bates is affected by the various scenarios that happens in his life. His mother’s passing affected him the most as he murdered her. He took over his mother figure to get rid of guilt and started being her. He was in need of help, but he isolated himself from the outside world and this ‘mother’ personality had a very dominant role in his personal life which resulted in the murders he

I met with Joe Olivares on March 21st, 2016. The client was referred by Family Services Agency. His wife has reported an increase in alcohol use. When asked about his current drink habits, Mr. Olivares stated that he, “only has 4-5 drinks on the weekend and never during the week”. He later reported to drinking wine each night with dinner. He also reports going to the bar until he blacks out. Additionally, he says that at family events, his drinking increases. He has reported calling in to work to recover from drinking.

Treatment for DID consists primarily of psychotherapy with hypnosis. Treatment attempts to help contact as many alter as possible and to understand their

Freud and other psychoanalysts used various methods to uncover repressed ideas, and to permit the client to gain insight into his or her unresolved problems. As a form of therapy the approach uses hypnosis, Freud and Breuer treated a twenty one-year-old women called Anna O, who suffered from several neurotic symptoms such as nervous coughs and paralysis. Hypnosis uncovered a repressed memory of Anna O hearing the sound of dance music coming from a nearby house as she was nursing her dying father, and her guilty feeling that she would rather be dancing than looking after her father. Her nervous coughing stopped after that repressed memory came to light. However, patients are either hard or impossible to hypnotise and people under hypnosis become very suggestible.

In this Fascinating book Love’s Executioner and other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom, we can appreciated different techniques used in a session of Psychotherapy, this book was easy to read and understand and especially it was very addictive, making it the perfect tool and inspiration for psychology students who are starting to appreciate this career more deeply. There are ten different cases offered in this book, some patients share similar symptoms but still have different mental dysfunctions. Out of the ten cases I picked three:

The client is a fifty-two year old, White, upper class, female. The client lives with her husband, near New Carthage University, where her husband is a tenured professor. Her father is the president of the university. Martha is a homemaker.

Max's parents were interviewed separately on December 1st and 2nd. Max primarily resides with his mother but will stay with his father on occasion.

Giuseppe is a 14-year-10 month-old, Latino male in the 8th grade referred for counseling through AB3632 from Hollywood Senior high School under the Los Angeles Unified School District. Giuseppe’s school counselor indicates Giuseppe has difficulty controlling his anger towards peers. She also shares that Giuseppe fights with his peers leading to a suspension from school for three days due to fighting. Giuseppe’s mother reports that at home he is very oppositional especially with his father. Giuseppe’s mother has made multiple threats to call the police and have him spend time at Juvenile Hall if the behaviors persist. The counselor and mother, both report that Giuseppe has an attitude problem and frequently

Through reading Sybil I believe that this mental illness is real because the patient doesn’t gain anything positive from this disorder, Sybil and other patient’s memory loss when another personality takes over goes beyond normal forgetfulness, and lastly, all the other personalities have an explanation - a traumatic experience from their childhood. From beginning to end, the book Sybil informs readers of all her struggles from painful memory lose to inability to control time to the confusion in her life as a result. This type of lifelong struggle is unimaginable to have as Sybil’s life is really not just hers, but shared amongst 16 “individuals”. Sybil, especially during childhood continuously got blamed for negative actions even though she didn’t do it, one of her other personalities did. Worst of all, before therapy with Dr. Wilbur, Sybil had no idea why her life was this way, creating more confusion. This way of living brings no benefits to Sybil or any Dissociate Identity Disorder patient aside from

Freud continued his work on repression, memories, and past experiences of trauma to be the motive for all neurotic symptoms. Trauma in past experiences was not always the key determinant for hysteria cases, there needed to be another component for the cause. The combination of past trauma and present trauma awakened memories of the earlier trauma which constituted the true aggravation (Storr, 1989, p. 15). However, he began to see a common factor in his work. Next Freud noticed that a common denominator of all his hysteria cases was premature sexual experiences. Sex encompasses many emotions through mind, body, and spirit that can influence a great deal of character if repressed. Storr pointed out that, “Freud became more and more convinced that the chief

It is difficult to summarize psychodynamic theory without a brief discussion of Freud. Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis, the father of psychodynamic theory, and in effect the father of modern psychotherapy. Freud's notions retain quite a bit of popularity, especially his ideas that things are not what they seem on the surface. Because of his understanding of the mind and behavior, Freud considered that overt behaviors were not always self-explanatory (or perhaps "not often explanatory" would be the better term). Instead, these overt or manifest behaviors represent some hidden motive. Sigmund Freud was trained as a neurologist and specialized in the treatment of nervous disorders. His early training involved using hypnosis with the French neurologist Jean Charcot in the treatment of hysteria, the presentation of baffling physical symptoms (mostly in young women) that appeared to have no physical origin (Hall, Lindzey, & Campbell, 1998). Freud also partnered with the Viennese physician Josef Breuer who practiced a revolutionary "talking cure" to reduce patients' symptoms by talking with them about how they felt as well as using hypnosis to remove emotional barriers to their feelings. He eventually abandoned the use of hypnosis in favor of a process he termed "free association" in which he had patients talk about what was on their minds without censoring their train of thought. This led Freud to develop his theory of the human mind as a complex system that is

She has struggle for many years for the decision to seek treatment because the psychic pain was not intense enough to motivate her for seeking treatment. Luckily in this case, this patient knows well how to discharge all the negative emotion and tension in order to avoid the reflection of pathological behavior.