Essays about: "psychological mechanisms"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 58 essays containing the words psychological mechanisms.
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16. No Need for Penis-Envy : A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading of The Bell Jar
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay analyzes Esther Greenwood’s identity crisis, mental illness, and recovery in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar (1963) from a feminist psychoanalytic perspective. The purpose is to understand the cultural and psychological mechanisms behind the main character’s situation. READ MORE
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17. Green Prescribing: Communities of Boundary Practice in Transectoral Collaboration. An Actor-Oriented Approach to Environmental and Public Health Intervention.
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : Green prescribing, the referral of patients to nature-based activities, has potential to bring co- benefits for psychological and physiological public health and for environmental health. Literature considers a major limitation to its effective implementation as a holistic, transectoral practice to be lack of a common language and tendency of actors involved to work within their respective paradigms, resulting in silo working and minimising realisation of potential co- benefits. READ MORE
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18. Environmental knowledge and motivated beliefs in flight consumption -An economic approach to cognitive dissonance and motivated reasoning
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Growing concerns for increasing consumption, and its impact on global warming, have led interest groups to press individuals and politicians to take action. The environmental movement focus on moral values and attitudes to change consumption behavior. READ MORE
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19. SEXUAL ABUSE IN VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S LOLITA: A Psychoanalytic approach to Humbert Humbert’s Sexuality
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Through examining Humbert Humbert’s psychological defense mechanisms in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, this essay aims to analyze Humbert Humbert’s sexuality through the framework of psychoanalytic theory by demonstrating how Humbert Humbert’s abuse is employed as a psychological defense to process his sexuality. By analyzing his abusive actions, the results suggest that the reason for Humbert Humbert’s psychological defense is caused by his fear of abandonment that has been a constant issue throughout the novel, both physically and emotionally. READ MORE
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20. ”There is no why” : A Psychoanalytic Approach to Trauma and Delusion in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut provides a profound discussion on how the many traumas of war affect the human psyche. The novel’s protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, is a direct witness of many horrific events in World War II, which causes certain life-changing symptoms later in his life. READ MORE
