The Effects Of Physical Abuse On Mental Illness

128). Built environment includes his family home, the dining hall, church building, and treatment agency. Societal factors impacted Paul at a young age, he had few friends and was ridiculed by his peers due to “looking” different. Paul has experienced a shift in social interaction in the past year due to the death of his father. Paul’s father was instrumental in setting limits in a firm yet gentle way, now Paul’s main interaction is with his mother and those within the dining hall.

Paul’s thoughts are mostly influenced by the people where he he works, Carnegie Hall. A theatre hall full of rich people with lavish lifestyles. The author mentions, “ what he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on the wave of it, to be be carried out, blue league after league, away from everything.” Paul wanted to escape his poor reality and live in the luxuries of Carnegie Hall. Paul alienates himself by being too caught up in his life at Carnegie Hall, that he views himself as superior to the people at his school but the is alienated at Carnegie Hall because the rich people there view him as an

“Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather is set in Cordelia Street of Pittsburgh and then in New York, telling of Paul who is unhappy with his life and yearns for the elite and cultured. Considering “Paul’s Case” as a dramatisation of being bi-polar, both the setting and symbolism of the short story becomes two of the most important elements demonstrate it.

Paul's Case is about a young, Calvinist man who did not feel that he belonged in his life. He lived on Cordelia Street in Pittsburgh, PA. Cordelia Street was littered with cookie cutter houses, suburbanite-like city-dwellers, and a general aura of despair. Paul's room was no different. Paul felt that his abusive father, uncaring teachers, and classmates who misunderstand him aren't worthy of his presence and company. One of the reasons Paul may not have fit in was because there is a chance that he was learning disabled.

Psychological abuse also known as emotional abuse is when someone affects the emotional and social aspect of someone’s life. It is a pattern of behaviors by caregivers that interferes with cognitive, emotional, psychological, and social development. In other words’ it is when someone does something intentionally to hurt the emotional aspects of another person.

It is Paul’s worsening mental condition, that is a result of his removal from Carnegie Hall, that leads to the decision for Paul to end his life by jumping in front of a train. The emotional consequences of this traumatic event, such as impulsive behaviour, confusion, emotional helplessness and this emotional void, are the driving force behind Paul’s action. If not for this event Paul’s tragic descent into this state of depression

When in a health and social care environment the service providers need to make sure service that the users, using the service are being treated in the right way. If this is not ensured it could result to the service users being abused, treated differently due to vulnerability. Other reasons that may result to poor treatment are: different social classes, different social statuses and many more, this may vary depending on the situation.

He takes his obsession of proving to his peers how special he is by showing them “autographed pictures of all the members of the stock company…telling them of his familiarity with these people” (Cather 219). However, in actuality, his contact and similarities with the actors of Carnegie Hall is minimal, and he remains an outsider. He is removed from the actual life of these people, but feels he is engaged in it. By thinking of himself extraordinarily, but having no aspirations, Paul becomes “the adolescent longing for something-anything-different. Defiantly unproductive, he fails to “develop” himself” (Herring). Paul ignores his lack of talents and focuses his sense of superiority above the population of Pittsburgh to his interpersonal relations with the actors at Carnegie Hall in New York City. While Paul may have no talent, or desire for talent, he continues to exhibit his egocentrism behind a cover of arrogance and lack of empathy.

Yet another example of the brutalization and dehumanization of the soldiers caused by the war occurs during Paul’s leave. On leave, Paul decides to visit his hometown. While there, he finds it difficult to discuss the war and his experiences with anyone. Furthermore, Paul struggles to fit in at home: “I breathe deeply and say over to myself:– ‘You are at home, you are at home.’ But a sense of strangeness will not leave me; I cannot feel at home amongst these things. There is my mother, there is my sister, there my case of butterflies, and there the mahogany piano – but I am not myself there. There is a distance, a

Paul’s defiance is a result of his love for his fantasies of the “high life”. He hates his life at home on Cordelia Street and he wishes to live the lives of performers; the life with money. In Elizabeth Hick’s criticism, she explains what “Paul’s case” exactly is. “His mannerisms at school, from his avoidance of being touched to his ‘dandy’ dressing

As Paul goes on leave and is able to visit his home and family, his books, his escape during childhood, he longs for the past. During Paul’s leave, one may see his true craving for his youthful years to reappear when Paul says, “speak to me… Life of my Youth… receive me again-” (172). Paul becomes more aware that war causes paralysis to run over his soft heart as he visits home. Paul avoids discussion with his family or lies and says, “No, Mother… it isn’t so bad” (161). The burden simple conversation brings Paul illustrates how he feels he needs emotional distance from these experiences.

In Paul’s world, “the nature always wore the guise of ugliness, that a certain element of artificiality seemed to him necessary in beauty” many of his actions are triggered by this view on life. In fact this prospective is what provoked him to become so self-destructive and withdraw and chiefly determines the ending. As mentioned above, indulging in art was only one of his ways of escaping the reality, death is another option. Much before his suicidal act in New-York, he devotes a whole night picturing what it would be like if his father accidentally kills him as a bugler. More disturbingly, he also imagines what happens if one day his father regrets not killing him. Paul is constantly bugged by fear, but never the less , he considers death as an ideal solution to life. Even at the finest moment of his life, when he prepares to go to New-york, Paul still buys a pistol so that he is entirely ready to take away his miserable life at any moment.

Paul spent his childhood with his mother and sister as his father had left them when the age of Paul was only 5. He felt very bad in those days until now when he claims that leaving of his father made him strong in mind. Paul’s father was addicted to heroin and did not gave him his esired childhood so he decided that he will be a better father to his children and don’t leave them ever. He was raised by his step father. Paul went to Jersy Village High School for study and later enrolled for studying mass communications

“Paul’s case: A study in Temperament” by Willa Cather is representative of students coming of age in a world where everyone has a plan for them, and they are forced into this mold. Paul believes that he is the only one going through this, and that is part of what makes it so hard for him because he believes no one understands, even though most individuals experience this. This on top of many aspects of his temperament lead him to make rash decision to go against everything that he has grown up feeling had oppressed him, but these decisions do not lead him to the happiness and peace of mind he seeks, and he eventually commits suicide. The common The title “Paul’s case: A study in Temperament” refers to the third person observation of Paul, a

In Jungian psychology, individuation is achieved when one overcomes his Shadow, which is the dark and primitive side of the unconscious. Desires of the Shadow can tempt an individual’s unconscious to capitulate, but the conscious always contends for itself. As ignorance towards one’s shadow is prolonged, the individual experiences mental, physical, and psychological consequences, although the instant one differentiates his Shadow and interprets how to eradicate it, he obtains individuation. Paul is inadept in attaining individuation because of the consistent external conflict between him and society. He is perpetually restrained by his shadow, and because of this, he acts as an observer in his life as opposed to an active participant of his society. Wherefore, he experiences brief lapses in existentialism, which is considered as “the nature of the human condition as a key philosophical problem” (Burnham and Papandreopoulos 1). This is palpable when the narrator says, “He had no desire to become an actor, any more than he had to become a musician. He felt no necessity to do any of these things; what he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on the wave of it, to be carried out, blue league after blue league, away from everything” (Cather 3). He is not himself as he remains in this oppressive society. Likewise, concerning Jungian Psychology, Paul exhibits traits of an archetypical rebellious teenager. Society is accustomed with this type of archetype, and it knows explicitly how to ostracize this individual, which is precisely what it did to him. Paul could not, and did not, achieve individuation at this stage because of this antagonism between society and