Mark Graham
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I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Existentialist Theories
What are the existentialist theories? People are spirited and radically free, but largely responsible for the existence of their choices that they make. There is a struggle to find meaning. Choices of who we are becoming for we may never reach that goal of self, but it is an on-going process that we have to endure. There is anxiety for the responsibility for and about the consequences brought about from the choices made. Anxiety informs us about these ideas. What makes us whole. The self is truth and deeply rooted in our being, and the meaning is not found in others or us for it is brought to us by a far greater being.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
Humanistic Theories
What are the humanistic theories? The largest theory in this area is known as Phenomenology that is subjective with the experiences we have. What we are, what we do is a reflection of our subjective experience of our world and ourselves. There is an external reality to understand an inner reality of the and to promote our growth and development. This is shown by the respecting them and our own unique perspectives of reality.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
What is the Relationship between the Body and the Mind
To get started culture created the distortions and distinctions for there is a connection between the body and the mind. There is a 'dualism' where the mind and body are two distinct entities. The Early Greeks thought that they were separate, but most contemporaries views do not agree with this. There is also 'monism' a physicalism where we are all but one substance that is very reductionistic. Our physiology determines us with variations. Warren Brown a non-reductive physician recognized the biological nature, but does not ignore the consciousness for we make conscious decisions from the top to the bottom and causal influences.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
Explanations of Abnormality
What are some of the various explanations of abnormality? In history there were three group theories one was that abnormality was supernatural, another said it was natural and still another theory said it was psychological related to stress theories. The supernatural theories thought that abnormality was abnormal divine interventions like demonic possessions or caused by personal sin, and cure was to show a form of atonement. While the natural theories suggested that abnormality was related to diseases of the physical sense where some breakdown in the body systems occurred. The cure was to restore the body to good health. The psychological stress theories were a result of traumas or personal losses such as bereavement or even chronic stress, and the cure was to be rest and relaxation with maybe a change in environment and maybe the use of some herbal medicines.
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
Return to Abnormal Psychology
It has been awhile since I shared anything from my course in Abnormal psychology. Not sure, but I think I wrote a lesson on the first chapter or maybe the first two. Right now I believe I am going to give a short review on the first two chapters. So what is Abnormal Psychology? There are four concepts of this subject such as does the issues do harm or is destructive and are they not socially accepted. The core concepts are that issues and concerns are repeated and examined in and about an abnormal behavior. It is the context in which a particular behavior occurs along with the circumstances of the situations that occur that causes the behavior(s).
By Mark Graham3 years ago in Education
