Intimate Partner Violence is a saddening reality for a large number of individuals in relationships. Such a situation is difficult to handle and has consistently been discussed in the psychology field in terms of applicable measures of action. Traditionally, the Duluth Model was adopted to deal with IPV cases, eliciting...

When considering the impact that childhood trauma has on development it seems necessary to view the issue from a life course perspective. According to Fink and Galea (2015) traumatic events are ubiquitous, as a majority of people will experience lifetime traumas. To put this into perspective, nine out of 10...

A clinical psychology handles the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental illnesses in various populations. While these mental health clinicians can be employed in the medical environment, such as hospitals and psychiatric centers, they cannot prescribe medication to people (Cherry, 2015). As far as health prevention, clinical psychologists can...

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a life-changing mental disorder that affects up to 2% of adults (Psychology Today, 2017). Its most common and visible symptoms include frequent mood changes, injurious and suicidal tendencies, problematic interpersonal relationships and unstable behavioral patterns (Psychology Today, 2017). Other symptoms include unjustified feelings of abandonment,...

It is hardly surprising the Freud, so profoundly the investigator of the individual mind and of individual needs, would have issues with civilization and the demands of any society. His emphasis is invariably on the personal, and his groundbreaking work explores the innermost drives – and demons – of the...