Pyromania

Butler uses traditional religion in the novel to demonstrate the ways in which it can be a destructive or constructive force in society. Butler demonstrates the dangers of dogmatic, authoritarian religion when it is used as an excuse to ignore the needs of others and the changes in society. Religion is not inherently a destructive force; it becomes a destructive force in Lauren’s community when it is used to control and limit thinking because of deference to church leaders such as Lauren’s father

Foster care is a system where the government places a minor in a home with a caregiver in a group home or private care. As to an Adoption is when a adoptive parent(s) are legally granted the rights and responsibilities of the child which removes all those rights from the birth parent of the child. Does foster care affect the psychological health of a child as to a child that is adopted? Though most people might think that Foster care and Adoption are the same they are not, they have the same objective

Nature versus nurture is an ongoing debate on whether people are born with a wickedness that causes them to commit crimes, or if the surrounding environment of their early life causes them to become evil. People are born with an unrighteousness that is the root of their iniquity, this natural evil comes from their genetics. Psychologists that have studied serial killers find that they often times have no vendetta, and are simply committing these acts because they have some outlandish desire to

Most control disorders such as pyromania (obsession with setting fires), kleptomania(obsession with shoplifting/thievery), trichotillomania(obsession with pulling hair). Those kind of disorders make people feel increasing arousal or tension before committing the act. People affect with

(Biography.com Editors 2013). Early on, Berkowitz adopted parents knew there was a problem within him. Although having above average intelligence, Berkowitz lost interest in school and began to focus on more rebellious habits such as petty larceny and pyromania (David Berkowitz: Son of Same Killer). The death of his adoptive mother to breast cancer at age 14 proved to cause major problems and resentment for Berkowitz. Lack of sleep, depression, and guilt are only some of the problem Berkowitz was faced

to murder three to four victims through a span of days, weeks, months, or even years with a “cooling period” in the middle. The components that impact the making of a serial killer are so much broader than just the Macdonald Triad of bedwetting, pyromania and animal cruelty; it has been proven that a person’s early years are the most critical years. A youngster's initial couple of years are a period of experimentation, a chance to make sense of things for themselves, an opportunity to put the pieces

David Berkowitz was a man who was abandoned at an early age. He was the result of an affair, and he was abandoned by his birth parents. Berkowitz would be adopted only for his mother to pass away and his new father to abandon him like his old father. Berkowitz had no one to turn to for his emotional trauma, and he lashed out. Lacking reasoning due to serious mental health issues, Berkowitz listened to the dark voices in his head and committed several murders of young women between 1976 and 1977 in

disorder was classified as an impulse control disorder, a class of disorders characterized by the failure to resist a temptation, urge or impulse, placing it alongside such wide diagnoses as Compulsive Hair Pulling (Trichotillomania), Kleptomania and Pyromania. One of the most significant changes in the DSM-5 was the categorical re-classification of GD to a Substance-Related and Addictive Disorder. This was driven by a desire to be more scientific in determining appropriate criteria for GD by accounting

Describe the etiology of the disorder. Bipolar Disorders are considered complex because of the episodes that are experienced. They include dysfunctional mood, potentially including major depressive episodes, mild to moderate depressive episodes, manic episodes, hypomanic episodes, and mixed episodes, which are often separated by periods of relatively normal mood. (BDII). There are two types of Bipolar Disorders that I will cover in this paper. They include Bipolar I disorder (BP-I) and Bipolar II

Individuals with disabilities continually encounter various forms of discrimination, including intentional exclusion from certain work areas, that denies them the opportunity to compete on an equal basis and to pursue those opportunities that guarantees success in the society. To guarantee success there is expectation regarding the relationship between the employer and employee, giving close attention to the various factors that should be considered to make the person with disability successful.