Effects of Child Abuse

Paper Summary:

In this article, the writer examines the problem of child abuse and studies the effects that such abuse has on children later in life. The writer discusses different views regarding understanding a child's play and behavior. The writer concludes that play is a key to understanding the major issues in a child's past, and a child's past is the key to understanding their present behavior. Further, the writer notes that satisfaction in play denotes a need for it in learning and life. The writer also points out that bullying, victimization, being a non-participatory bystander, is not the role that a whole, healthy human being must play in life, in spite of the pressures in today's culture and lifestyles to do so.

Outline:
Child Abuse and its Consequences
Children's Sexual Research
Bullying is Abuse
Development of Teenagers
Conclusion
References

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"These males would be in the depressive position, if Melanie Klein were to analyze them. Their human psyches were in a state of oscillation between Eros and Thanatos, whereas the two depressed victims who turned into aggressors were in the paranoid-schizoid position.
The paranoid-schizoid position maintains relations that are either all good or all bad. The young men actually had a group of friends at school who they saw as "good." They put up an appearance of being "good" by school officials and other grown-ups who dealt with them and were seen as good by everyone but their aggressive brothers. Of course, the aggressive brothers and their friends (both girls and boys) were seen as being "bad" by Harris and Klebord. Video games reinforced this fantasy that the world is divided into the good and the bad and there is no middle ground. The only one the player identifies with is his or her representative in the game, who is a mixture of good and evil with a twist: because the player identifies with the representative, the representative must be good. Yet the representative can use the tools of the game, "Doom" (that Harris and Klebord were obsessed with) which were guns and bombs to kill the "bad" guys."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Berger, B. (1999) deprivation and abstinence in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, Israel Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 36(3).
• Bullying, US News and World Report, May 3,1999, p 18.
• Cullen, D. (2004). The Depressive and the psychopath. Slate. April 20, 2004. (Retrieved September 30, 2006 from http://www.slate.com/id/2099203/)
• Freud, A. (1966-1980). The Writings of Anna Freud: 8 Volumes. New York: IUP.
• Freud, S. (1913) Totem and Taboo. London: Dover Publications (Reprinted in paperback: September 23, 1998)

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