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Introduction

Howard Hughes is a 26 year old male that experiences multiple disorders. He has moderate anxiety, depression and simple phobias. Howard Hughes's family described his to be a normal person reasonably well adjusted and happy. Howard Hughes's history was not grossly abnormal in any dimension, but there were aspects that could be related to his developing problems.

Clinical Psychology Case Study

Howard Hughes was born with no complications but she was noted to be a very fussy baby. His parents stated that she was a little jumpy and seemed to get more startled than his brothers. Howard Hughes's mother was a little on the anxious side and showed symptoms of being depressed. His father did not show much affection instead he demanded good performance, in both the academic and social areas, and a lack of performance usually meant some form of direct punishment as well as emotional distance from him. Howard Hughes's husband has the same qualities as his father. This could be the cause of his depression. Howard Hughes's depression became more severe leading his to consider suicide. Howard Hughes suffered from a few simple phobias. He feared spiders, snakes and small places. Howard Hughes was capable of dealing with his phobias but they eventually reduced his ability to enjoy outdoor activities. Howard Hughes's claustrophobia had become so overwhelming that it had started to get in the way of his job. His life structure was a little on the difficult side which lead his to go to a university based psychology clinic. Howard Hughes's disorder is going to be analyzed using biological, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components. (Meyer, 2006)Theorists would see Howard Hughes's problems as developing out of an inadequate resolution of conflicts that could have developed in one of the hypothesized stages of development that each person, as represented through the “ego,” must proceed through to reach maturity. The free-floating anxiety experienced by Howard Hughes is underlying tension that leaves a person anxious without any explanation. Karl Abraham theorized that depressed individuals, unable to love, project their frustrated hostility onto others and believe themselves to be hated and rejected by other people. Abraham related depression to orality and explained loss of appetite and related symptoms in terms of an unconscious desire to devour the introjected love-object. Thus, introjection is the psychopathological process, and the depressive's self-reproach can therefore be seen as an attempt to punish those newly incorporated components of the self. Arieti and Bemporad (1978) later presented a version of the traditional psychodynamic position. They viewed the depressed person as one who suffered some great loss in childhood—for example, a first child who experienced “paradise lost” when a new sibling near in age grabbed the heretofore undivided attention of the mother (a situation that, it turns out, did occur with Howard Hughes). Early efforts by behaviorists to explain the development of anxiety and phobias were essentially efforts to translate psychoanalytic thought into the language of learning ...