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This examines the history of disassociative personality disorder and how the cure for it has evolved with time.

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Cognition is, simply stated, the way in which the mind interprets information received from the senses. It is the pathway to understanding. Disassociation can run the gamut from day-dreaming to an extreme mental disorder that encompasses a separation of mental processes, such as thoughts, emotions, cognition, memory and identity. This paper shows how, in the short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and the play, "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by August Wilson, madness based on disassociation is a central theme.

From the Paper
"In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator, under treatment for 'hysteria,' is taken "three miles from the village" (Gilman 11) to an upstairs nursery of a "colonial mansion" (Gilman 9), its windows barred and its walls covered in a faded yellow wallpaper whose "sprawling flamboyant patterns" commit "every artistic sin" (Gilman 13). In time, the woman succumbs to the disassociation focused on the wallpaper and is stripped of her sanity and humanity in the same manner that the wall is stripped of the wallpaper by the woman (Bak 39). The story ends with her trying to become a part of the wallpaper and succeeding only in bringing her own life to an end."

Tags:Loomis, Bynum, dysfunctional

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In this article, the writer offers a discussion of false memories within the context of ethical issues that include trauma and false memories, false memories and the law and repressed memories. The False Memory Syndrome and the notions of repression and disassociation are discussed.

From the Paper
"Relative to this topic issues of false memories trauma and false memories false memories and the law and ethical issues and repressed memories are discussed. False Memories Ethical issues surround the topic of false memories since these memories are used in litigation and treatment. Understanding what a false memory is requires an understanding of what repression and dissociation are. Merskey pointed out that Freud presented the notion ..."

Tags:false memories, abuse, victims, ethical, legal, disassociation

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This paper examines how Mary Mebane's essay, "Shades of Black," attests to intraracial struggles, which she discusses through first and second-hand accounts of prejudice and victimization carried out by those of her own race. It looks at how the essay contends that factors such as social class, skin color, and interracial matters between White Americans are slowly disrupting the unity within the Black community by causing disassociation between upper and lower class Blacks, by creating intraracial color-based prejudice and discrimination, and by causing African Americans to develop a habit of not fully addressing the biases within their own society.

From the Paper
"Another example of how divisions among social classes disrupts the unity among some Blacks can be seen right here at Clark Atlanta University. Many blacks on campus, especially females, disassociate themselves from other Blacks that they feel are not of the same social class as they are. One day I experienced this first hand after being denied a seat in the overcrowded cafeteria by a group of black girls because they said my clothes were too cheap. Both this example and the one in the previous paragraph give many Blacks a visual of how social class is dividing the race. As Mebane depicts, the same problem also existed in the 1960's. In her essay "Shades of Black," she claims that social class was one of the determining factors of one's status at North Carolina College at Durham. Children of the upper class that had doctors, educators, and lawyers for parents were considered the elite there (177). "

Tags:prejudice, discrimination, blacks, whites, social, class

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The paper discusses the disassociation of dream-related REM sleep from atonia, resulting in a disturbing experience of hypnagogic paralysis with or without visual hallucinations. The paper relates that autonomic arousal and overwhelming emotions of fear often accompany such disorders as sleep terrors and nightmare disorders. The paper explains that with the simultaneous occurrence of hypnagogic paralysis with these fear reactions and hallucinations, it is often difficult to distinguish whether the cause is from the paralysis or the hallucination. The paper further discusses how the occurrence of specific phenomena such as spirit manifestations, out-of-body experiences, loss of bodily control or being "possessed" is an even more complex phenomenon to fathom due to the equally complex psychological, social and cultural interactions of the individual. The paper explains that they can be partially explained by higher cortical activity occurring mostly during REM sleep, and shows why PTSD is an unlikely cause of hypnagogic paralysis.

From the Paper
"I have had these experiences since age 13. I am now 50 and they seem more powerful. I am always awake during these experiences and [seem to] see evil spirits or feel like I can leave my body. Sometimes I let it take control over me; at times I have felt possessed... The author's experience may at first seem unrelated to the fields of psychiatry or the neurosciences and may seem more appropriate as a case of..."

Tags:hypnagogic, hallucinations, parasomnias

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This paper explains that the primary reasons for the decline and eventual fall of the Roman Empire are the moral, social and political decadence and the loss of inner integrity that marked the final stages of this society. The author points out that this cause is linked with other factors such as the invasion of the various "barbarians", economics and the unequal distribution of wealth among others. The paper relates that the basic aspects of this decline refers to a combination and interaction between economic and political power including the disassociation of this power from the electoral base, invasive elements from outside the country that sapped important resources, internal and external strife and the decline of the cohesion of the society. The paper includes many quotations.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Reasons for the Decline of the Roman Empire
Decline and Decadence
Conclusion

From the Paper
"However, some historians are of the opinion that, while all the above elements are critical to an understanding of the decline, they are all subservient to a central and vital factor, namely that the inner decadence, moral decline and loss of integrity within the Roman society and body politic in general were the foundational causes for the decline and fall of the Roman world. According to the renowned scholar in this area, Edward Gibbon, the fall of the Roman Empire was due to a loss of "Civic Virtue"."

Tags:virtue, cohesion, integrity, stages, invasion

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This paper discusses Richard Louv's book, "Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder," which is about the fact that many western children spend little or no time in nature. Louv correlates the lack of time in nature with the onset and surmounting cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The writer discusses some of the reasons that Louv mentions for disassociation from nature, such as the urbanization of the Girl Scouts, and phenomena like the Rainforest Cafe. The writer explains how Louv's book affected her personally, and how it has inspired and motivated her to find more ways to involve her daughter with nature.

From the Paper
"Throughout the book, I was drawn to comparisons in my personal life, especially associated with television, electronic media and immersion, and fear. While I was raised in a Northern Californian town on three acres and plenty of wilderness to explore, I am living a quite different existence in Los Angeles. As a stepmother, I am essentially at war with the commodity and consumer culture that is surrounding my eight-year-old daughter. If that is not enough, there are not any places for her to explore nature as I once did. Rather, she is steeped in a consumer culture that has also ingrained, in parents, fear of leaving children in unsupervised free play, in fear of the worst our imaginations can express. Louv sites these within his text, stating, "fear is the emotion that separates a developing child from the full, essential benefits of nature. Fear of traffic, of crime, of stranger-danger - and of nature itself.""

Tags:ADHD, environment, childhood, commitment, spiritual, conservationist

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Discusses Gore's disassociation from Clinton, not campaigning on his administration's record, Gore's inability to utilize the centrist style of politics, the Populist message, people not relating to him, and his exaggeration of his accomplishments.

From the Paper
"Al Gore Jr. was the sitting vice-president, having overseen the largest period of economic expansion in the history of the country and working for one of the most popular, albeit controversial, presidents ever. Given the political maxim that voters vote ..."

Tags:election, clinton

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In this paper, the writer explains that, although the concept of wilderness preservation seems idyllic and mostly undisputed by Americans, it perpetuates Western society's harmful dualistic and disassociated relationship with nature. The writer believes that the concept of wilderness is inept in transmitting the potential solutions and social transformations necessary to address the widespread environmental crisis. The writer argues that the concept of wilderness is based upon an American ideal, which cannot be matched by other nations and often times by its very inhabitants. The writer then suggests that, instead of wilderness, nature would be a unifying term for the environmental movement.

From the Paper
The concepts of nature and wilderness can also be strange and non-useful to inhabitants of The United States. For instance, oftentimes individuals who reside in urban and inner city settings tend to disassociate themselves from wilderness. What is wilderness, for example, if you claim you have never experienced or seen it? Again, when nature and wilderness are an "Other," it is difficult to relate to a place that is substantially distant from you. Many inner city children have never experienced being in the wilderness and most fear such encounters as the first people who landed on America's shores."

Tags:recreational, disassociated relationship, collective amnesia, nature other

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The paper examines "Technology, Trauma and the Wild" by Chellis Glendinning and "The Ancient Ones," a chapter about the Anasazi in Jared Diamond's book "Collapse", which both attempt to show how humans are reactive rather than proactive. The paper first explains that an advanced culture as the Anasazi collapsed because they did not learn from their past experiences. The paper then discusses Diamond's look at the environmental problem of today and Glendinning's view of technology addicts. Additionally, the paper explains Diamond's idea that people find it difficult to stop their use of damaging activities that they have become used to and looks at how Glendinning describes the disassociate behavior that occurs when people cannot get what they feel they must have.

From the Paper
"Why did such an advanced culture as the Anasazi collapse? According to Diamond, agriculture was such an integral aspect of this society that when the crops began to fail and finally the drought came in, they were unable to adapt. This same question is relevant today. Humans in most nations of the world are highly reliant on technology, or even addicted to it as Glendinning details, because of its benefits in health, mental and physical well being and entertainment/social life. Yet, as it is becoming increasingly known, this same technology is causing such problems as deforestation, tropical rainforests destruction, over-fishing, soil erosion and salinization, global warming, depletion of fresh water supply, energy exhaustion, toxics in air, water and soil and overpopulation. On top of this, according to Glendinning, other aspects in our society such as child abuse can also be seen as indicative of this technology addiction, as well as a possibility of beginning to disassociate if major changes occur."

Tags:environment, society, disassociate, behavior