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Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a failure to social obligations and a lack of concern for the feelings of others. There is a pattern of disparity between behavior and social norms. The behavior is not immediately changed from negative consequences. There is a low tolerance and...

I trattamenti che oggi vengono utilizzati si basano, esclusivamente, sui risultati della ricerca clinica e dell'esperienza. I criteri principali adottati nella scelta dei trattamenti sono, da una parte la capacità di ridurre l'intensità e la frequenza di comparsa della sintomatologia, dall'altra...

The person who suffers is heard frequently demoralized, pessimistic and low self-esteem, feel soft and vague aches and pains, feels guilty and inadequate. It may also have ideas of death and thoughts of suicide. Sometimes there are also delusions and hallucinations: a person can be convinced to be responsible and guilty of things not committed, believe in the imminent end of the world.

Burnout can be defined as a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal skills that occurs in some people. This is a reaction to chronic emotional tension created from continuous contact with other human beings, in particular if they have problems or reasons of suffering. So it can be considered a type of occupational stress.

The Burnout, represents a type of response to a situation perceived as intolerable: the operator receives an unbridgeable gap between the amount of the requests made by users and available resources (individual and organizational) to respond positively to such requests. The result is a sense of learned...

Suicide is a very complex phenomenon that has psychosocial implications, still largely unexplored, but which kills more victims of armed conflicts every year, unfortunately, still occur. In this text we will investigate the various joints, the most obvious to the most recondite of this distressing phenomenon, focusing on the crucial points of the psychological dynamic.

Always been the theme of memory has aroused curiosity and scientists to establish the processes and try to optimize it. Nowadays one can no longer speak of "memory" because it was identified the multiplicity of componential memory. Most recent studies have determined the existence of three memory areas with different structure and function.

The panic attacks is presented with an intense feeling of fear which occurs suddenly not necessarily caused by exposure to a situation of anxiety, sudden onset and more often within a few minutes to intensify some symptoms typical of an anxiety attack, such as difficulty breathing, tremors, sweating, tachycardia, which lead the subject to believe they are dying or going crazy.

The essential feature of Schizotypal Disorder is a "pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort and a reduced capacity for intimate relationships and cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior with inclination to create illogical theories...

Anxiety disorders and panic, are not intended as the product of a deficit, a lack of psychological or organic, but as the effect of a hyper-functionality psychic empathic sensitivity with a rich and an equally rich intelligence estimates, the anxious person lives an inner conflict over the choices...

A very interesting aspect of depression is given by the blatant contrast between the sterility of days spent as a captive creatures of his own life, and the great fertility of the time when you decide to start living again. At that moment, in fact, the individual carries on his shoulders a heavy burden. But depression is especially metamorphosis and inner enrichment if lived in right way.

These beliefs, handed down from generation to generation, they find fertile ground in the minds of most people. It often happens that a person aware of some superstition, but is convinced that it is something completely ridiculous, ending with the adoption of the known remedy to avert the supposed...

The Cenozoic or Tertiary Era, derives its name from the greek and means "recent life". It covers the long period of time ranging from 65 to 1.8 million years ago. For the great success of the Mammals, the Cenozoic is also called the Age of Mammals.Birds conquer the heavens, no longer dominated by the flying reptiles. Toward the end of this Age will come out early hominids.

The Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder could be described as a compulsive personality with affectation. These individuals express an irritable mood and acid; aggression is often grumpy and whiny. They are often depressed or gloomy and feel a perverse pleasure in spoiling the party at all - even...