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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Neuroses."”.
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Survey of the war neuroses
The simplicity of the war neuroses has been the subject of observation by many writers. It is a remarkable fact, however, that the observed simplicity has not led to any unanimity of opinion on the actual constitution of the neuroses. The striking character of the symptoms, the ease with which they …
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You give me fever : practical protection for metropolitan neuroses
The emergence of Swine Flu in the past six months has once again heightened the world's fears of a coming flu pandemic. Although H1N1 is only slightly more pathogenic than the common seasonal flu, which kills approximately 30,000 Americans each year, its rapid transmission around the globe is …
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Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Great War discourse on "Shell-Shock"
… prompted the search for a non-physical term; "neuroses" was put into use, and an epistemological link to madness was established. Finally, in the search for a more scientific label, physicians decided upon "neurasthenia," a psychiatric condition linked to exhaustion and memory loss. These three …
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Content nausea
… and poems explores contemporary ways of being, neuroses, personal relationships, mental illness, and aims to pinpoint how these elements influence one another. I am interested in how society shapes social thought, and in many of my essays and poems I offer my lived experiences as a means of …
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Joseph Conrad and the ideology of fiction : a study of four works
… Freud suggested thwarted human instincts produce neuroses or psychopathologies - is put to the test here. This dissertaion seeks to extend the application of Jameson's hypothesis into some of the areas of Conrad's oeuvre that Jameson himself did not treat, or treated only briefly.
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The narrative structures of Robert Graves' historical fiction: a progression toward a conception of the hero in history
… biographers, are found to suffer psychological neuroses that are usually the result of an overly acute awareness of history. They seem to be aware of the process by which actions and events are ascribed mythic qualities which pollute the story of their real lives. Some of Graves’ heroes fall …
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The theatre of affect
… psychologists believe that this state prefigures neuroses, destructiveness, and schizophrenia. This thesis is concerned with the concept of 'mind/body split' and its relation to affective communication in the theatre. The subjects of my enquiry are theatre practitioners or companies whose work has …
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"Neurotic Nationalism: The ""American Disease"" in American Modernist Literature"
… identity with the complex, ""civilized"" neuroses that were supposed to be the exclusive province of the white and privileged. Accordingly, much was at stake in twentieth-century representations of neurosis, and my dissertation closely reads these instances in modernist dramatic landmarks …
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Reading smallness: micro-spatial constructions in South Africa's literature of the interregnum
… Missing Persons (1989) – an evocator of the neuroses at the ‘heart of apartheid' – and, on the other, a one-room shack from Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying (1995) – an ostensible symbol of an early post-apartheid imaginary. The discussion stretching between these two points, as it moves from nests …
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The Medicalization of Stress: Hans Selye and the Transformation of the Postwar Medical Marketplace
… relief from chronic diseases and anxiety neuroses.</p> <p>Selye began using the term "stress" to describe the GAS at the end of the Second World War, after military neuropsychiatric research on combat stress had already given the term a medical valence. And in the early-1950s, as his …
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Correlates of Death Anxiety: Self Esteem, Neuroticism and Purpose of Life
Contrary to expectations, a negative correlation exists between self esteem and death anxiety. It is thought that this finding may be influenced by two main factors, which when controlled for would yield the expected result of a positive relationship. One factor is neuroticism which is related to …
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Vulnerabilities to depression, anxiety and interpersonal problems: the role of parental styles, schemas and coping styles
<p>Cognitive theory proposes that maladaptive schemas influence the development of anxious and depressive symptoms and early parental experiences have been proposed to influence schema development. In this current study, measures of depressive and anxious pathology, parenting styles, coping styles …
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Prehensile: an explication of this is Africa, a travel memoir by Jack Rathmell
… immaterial as it relates to my perceptions, neuroses, and insecurities. Chiefly, the location serves only to provide me with various latching on points onto which I can briefly reflect on whatever issues are at hand. I use the locale as a foil against which I can relativize the sociocultural …
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Neuroticism and Religious Coping Styles as Mediators of Depressive Affect and Perceived Stress
Previous researchers have shown that the collaborative, self-directing, and deferring styles of religious coping result in different outcomes of depression under different levels of perceived stress. Neuroticism has also been shown to affect coping effectiveness overall or choice of coping method. …
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Combat Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Effect of Intelligence on Symptomatology
The objective of this study was to examine the relations between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder symptomatology and intelligence. Thirty American combat veterans of the Vietnam War, diagnosed with chronic PTSD, were given a psychodiagnostic structured interview. Participants were assessed for …
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Disaster Relief and Psychological First Aid
<p>Many organizations that assist in the aftermath of disasters often do not provide psychological relief. Although people tend to be rather resilient in the face of traumatic events, the psychological distress and possible psychopathology that can ensue should not be taken lightly. This manual was …