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    A psychological analysis of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible reveals that the work prompts the audience to subconsciously reflect upon the central issues in a state of introspection, indirectly guiding individuals to question not only the morality of the events which took place in Salem, but also the ethics of the people behind the actions. They are forced to contemplate their own human responses to aspects of modern life and consider the driving forces that have directed similar mass persecutions

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    The film, “Girl Interrupted” directed by James Mangold focuses on the lives of many women who have a psychological disorder. I will focus specifically on Susanna Kaysen, an 18 year old, who struggles with mental health issues during and after high school. Susanna voluntarily admits herself to psychiatric ward after an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide by taking a bottle of vodka with aspirin. Her decision was influenced by a short consultation with a family acquainted psychiatrist, because

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    Evaluating my citation through a psychological critical lens we can analysis how this affects my understanding of the human mind. I learned that we are the product or either what made us or our environment. And if you think of this in the real world it is true. People who grew up in an environment were they had to commit crime just to live will forever be that person unless their environment changes. So this citation made me vigilant on how human attitude and actions are really made. Are actions

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    Criminology C160 Psychological Analysis Based on the case notes, the defendant Howard does have a mental illness. Bipolar 1 disorder is most likely the mental illness. In order to complete the diagnoses the disorder must impair the sufferer’s life in a severe way which it has in this case. There is also a possibility that a sufferer may have psychotic features such as delusions. Howard had a severe delusion at the night he violated Stacey. He believed that fate brought them together rather than

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    these people were in fact psychopaths to begin with, these external factors might actually be an enhancement of traits that were already present, as they would have an existing predisposition to these behaviours. As a result, further research and analysis should be conducted in order to solidify these connections between external factors and secondary

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    Psychological Analysis of Raskolinkov According to the story, Raskolnikov could be depicted as a person who is contradictory to himself. His actions and thoughts could be seen as two different characters. Whenever he thinks about committing the crime, he can be perceived as a character filled with malice. When he is backing away from doing said action, he seems remorseful and guilty. These actions can lead one to believe that he has somewhat of a personality disorder. He portrays two different personalities:

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    In this report, the movie I am going to have psychological analysis and personal reflection is “A Beautiful Mind”. This film is a biographical film based on the life story of John Nash, who is a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The leading role are John Nash and his wife, Alicia Larde. The narration of John began in his 20s university life, to the start of his career at MIT, and then diagnoses of paranoid schizophrenia. After a few years, John is given medicine treatment, experienced progress and relapse

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    story. In these pieces of literature, Edgar Allan Poe presents protagonist who is the victims of complex mind issues such as guilt, perversity, superstitions, revenge, reverse psychology, etc. Poe’s short story, “The Black Cat” portrays three main psychological aspects of the human mind that include irrationality, perversity, and guilt. We see the reverse psychology in the narrator as he gradually changes from someone gentle to a murderer in the story. From the beginning of the story we find that the

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    Even though the main point of the movie is how bad Nina wanted the lead role for a theater production called Swan Lake, the dark drama around the movie is built by the psychological illness of its protagonist. Nina’s disordered relationship with her roommate/mother Erica, played by Barbara Hershey, sets the stage for Nina’s psychological breakdown. In the movie, the role that Nina always wanted requires her to play both the black and white swans. Her innocent, almost child-like personality makes her

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    Alysha Knight Psychology 2301 Psychological Disorder As discussed and studied there are many who now have a hard time believing there psych disorders exists. Understandably so, because we find that it can become repetitive once a criminal has scene that there may be a way out of their consequence. Mr. Kenneth Bianchi is known as the Hillside Strangler and also a man who brought more skepticism to psych defenses in crime. This is a man who was caught and convicted for 15 rapes and murders

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