Essays

hen becoming an adolescent in other words the stage of identity versus confusion, adolescents look for setting their own personality and sense in what they are and stand for. This can lead them to a sense of control and independence …

Many theories exist on the development of personality. To some theorists, personality is built on purely biological factors. Other theorists consider personality to be a construct built entirely on environmental factors. Still other theorists believe that while personality development is …

So The Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then The Lord God made a woman from …

This last example gives a whole new meaning to the Jerry Springer show. I could see it now: “My husband is in love with my clone daughter”. Yet, this risk is one that can very likely happen. In this world, …

The issue of whether psychology can be reduced to biology has been…the subject of some debate’ [Miell, Phoenix and Thomas, 2002, p285]. It can be argued that to study the mind in full it is essential to have knowledge of …

Transition is an inescapable part of being human and the process of change is central to personal development and self-awareness. Transition can be defined as a gradual psychological process that occurs in response to significant life changes. During the transition …

Disenchantment is the process of questioning what is real and what is illusory. It occurs when the old reality (i.e. ‘I will love you forever’) is no longer applicable, causing us to view the world in a different light and …

Psychoanalysis, like psychology, studies mind and behaviour in a very radical yet structural and in depth manner. The difference between the two, however, is that psychology considers the conscious processes as opposed to psychoanalysis, which also concerns itself with the …

The therapist in classical psychoanalysis is a metaphorical archaeologist (Spence,1972), digging up the hidden past and asking the client to deal with this unconscious material, calling for a resolution of psychosexual conflicts. The therapist of ego analysis, according to Erikson’s …

Psychology was a branch of philosophy before it broke away into a distinctive discipline over the last century. At the time when psychology was beginning to develop from its post-renaissance past, several schools formed. These schools had their own particular …