Homework 2

Homework 2

Definitions

Malingering

It involves making false stimulation or overstatement of cognitive or physical shortcoming that has been done for the purpose of getting money or drugs, or for avoidance of any other related cause.

Secondary Gain

Secondary gain involves getting indirectly social and surprising benefits associated with illness, like someone's attention, presents and relieve from the responsibility.

Double Depression

Double depression is a kind of mental pressure that attacks an individual with dysthymia and major depression.

Rapid Cycling

Rapid cycling is a state in which patient with bipolar disorder visage four or more than four periods of the melancholy in a year.

Derealisation

The individuals who experience derealisation feel like they are in dream as they constantly feel that the surrounding environment is varying.

Depersonalization

People experiencing depersonalization feels transformation in their perception regarding the real world.

Learned Helplessness

It is referred as psychological state in which patient feels helpless to alter his situation and he feels helplessness in terms of learning new skills and knowledge.

Specifiers

They are expansion to analysis of different disorders or illness that explains its nature, sensitiveness or any other related details.

Recovered Memories

Claudia's Case

The case that I have researched on the web relative to recovered memories showed how the childhood abuse memories are recovered. This case revolves around a girl Claudia, who got connected to a group of therapy for the incest survivors, the memories of sexual abuse that she experienced in the childhood by her brother came to her mind. It was disclosed by Claudia in front of the group members that, by the time she was four years old, her brother had frequently handcuffed her, and burned her with cigarettes and even stressed her to surrender herself to numerous sexual attempts.

The incident stopped soon after when her brother got admitted to army and eventually died in Vietnam combat more than fifteen years prior to her memory recovery. Her parents left the belongings of his brother and his room as it is and they did not even touch or displace anything since then. When Claudia returned back to home from the hospital, she explored the entire room and found those handcuffs, a huge collection of pornography and one diary in the closet.

In her diary, she noticed that her brother had planned and recorded what he named the sexual attempts with this sister (Brower, 1993). The state in which memory has been resisted unconsciously by a person because of the level of stress induced and trauma enclosed in the memory is called as repressed memory. Though, the person is unable to make a memory recall, it can disturb their consciousness. In the domain of psychology, the presence of repressed memory is an arguable issue, few studies have also revealed that it can appear in trauma victims; whereas, others do not agree with this.

As per numerous psychologists, therapy is the most feasible solution available for getting rid of the repressed memories. Different other psychologists suggest that it is a phenomenon by which fake memories are produced and combination of external influences and real memories. Furthermore, few psychologists think that these ...