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Find A Therapist

Book Summary by: Inashaza     

Original Author: Annie Murphy Paul
How To Find A Therapist
Psychologists measure identity phenomenon. There are people who have problems to be assertive
and need to consult a therapist to discover who they are in order not to lack consistency with what they do and what they are. The existence of person can be troubled by problems of expression, which can show that a person has a problem to interact with others for instance. People with identity problems tend to withdraw and become introverted or behavior in a way that is questionable. Some people will be diagnosed with personality disorders, because of the pathology. People who are not normal are put on medication. The problems encountered by the person suffering from a mental disorder like personality disorder is due to his or her personal history. And it is important not to put the blame on the ill person. Some examples of personality disorders are being sensitive and worried in situations like at work. As a matter of fact, personality disorders make people become vulnerable and it is due to the social background of the patient. But people who have personality disorders like narcissism mustn’t be blamed because according to Thomas Widiger because people with narcissism can have good careers. The personality disorders associated with it are obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, paranoid personality antisocial personality disorder, and dependent disorder. Personality disorder is going to become the major illeness to be treated by psychologists and psychiatrists. So far, the treatment for these disorders has been psychoanalysis. Freud’s theory on this issue is that the patients become ill, because of conflicts encountered, while the person was a child. The current theorists think that there is a link between biology, psychology and social concepts in personality disorder. Doctors are confident, that patient by reflecting on the past and giving drugs like serotonin can help to stop the biochemical disfuntions, which inhibit.
Beatrice Nkundwa.
Published: August 31, 2005
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