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- 1151: Methods Of Therapy
- ... or dream. This is psychodynamic therapy. In contrast to Freud's aforementioned ideas, we find Cognitive Therapies. The idea behind these therapies is that people, in trying to attain their own expectations and follow their personal views of right and wrong, consciously make choices and develop accordingly. Distress and depression therefore are the results of one's failure to live up to one's own expectations. In order to help their ... s psychodynamic therapy with its psychanalysis concentrates not only on the past, but on the forgotten and repressed, essentially the unknown. On the other hand, cognitive therapy depends on the known, such as the clients personal attitudes beliefs and expectations and then attempts to alter them so as to relieve concerns and fears. The Humanistic-Existential therapies, like psychodynamic therapies, also concentrate on the unconscious. The difference is that unlike Freud ... has its advantages and disadvantages. The idea behind group therapy is that by putting people with similar problems in one group, they can help each other to adjust and provide additional insight into their own personal situation. This however has its advantages and disadvantages. Some of the advantages are as follows: First of all, it is economical. If a particular therapist is busy or in constant demand, group sessions provide ...
- 1152: Resident Physician Stress And
- ... the point where it becomes abnormal stress, which is thought to achieve a critical level at some point. This abnormal stress level can then lead to burnout; burnout can lead to impairment. Both professional and personal stresses make huge demands on the resident's time. Unfortunately, there are only 24 hours in a day, and as a resident physician that day includes very little, or no, free time. Learning medicine at ... s residents tend to have slightly shorter on call hours. Overall, a typical resident spends up to eighty hours a week in the hospital. Time away from the hospital must be divided between learning and personal interests. During this time residents receive a stipend of about $28,000 to $30,000 dollars per year, an amount which increases slightly each year in the residency program. Debt is a considerable problem for ... residents. The debt among University of Colorado Health Science Center residents was anywhere from $65,000 to $130,000. All of these loans to be repaid create stressful budgeting problems for young physicians. Managing their personal lives becomes very difficult. A June 1997 issue of Cortland Forum an article by Dr. Xenakis titled "Top Physicians Not Always Best Husbands and Dads" he notes: A major magazine annually lists top-rated ...
- 1153: William Faulkner
- ... he would become known as a poet, a short story writer, and finally one of the greatest contemporary novelists of his time. William Faulkner's accomplishments resulted not only from his love and devotion to writing, but also from family, friends, and certain uncontrollable events. William Faulkner's life is an astonishing accomplishment; however, it is crucial to explore his life prior to his fixated writing career (Mack 1794-1798). In 1905, Faulkner entered the first grade at the tender age of eight, and immediately showed signs of talent. He not only drew an explicitly detailed drawing of a locomotive, but he soon became an honor-roll student. Throughout his early education, he would work conscientiously at reading, spelling, writing, and arithmetic. However, he especially enjoyed drawing. When Faulkner got promoted to the third grade, skipping the second grade, he was asked by his teacher what he wanted to be when he grew up. ...
- 1154: William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
- ... an innovator, and a revolutionary figure in American poetry. He is regarded as an important and influential poet because of his unique and unusually plain style. Living a life that was rather conventional, using a writing style that was essentially breaking the mold, and having a style that most critics were unsure about, Williams established a new genre to the poetic world. THE SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE William Carlos Williams; born ... him to do. He was caught, because his love was not as promising a career as becoming a doctor. However, as made evident out by Gale Research in their DISCovering actually assist Williams in his writing passion. From his medical practice, he was able to earn enough money to give him the financial freedom to experiment with his writing dream (3). Williams carried on with his medical practice for forty-one years in the same town, until he retired to writing full-time in 1951(Bloom 4338). This shows that Williams was happy ...
- 1155: Don Quixote
- ... of time to become one of the world s finest examples of literature; one of the first true novels ever written. It s uncommonness lies in the fact that it encompasses many different aspects of writing that spans the spectrum. From light-hearted, comical exchanges between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza to descriptions so strong that produce tangible images, the book remains steadfast in any reader s mind. As apparent in ... novel format, but comes into a much more unique light. The book begins with a preface, which, for Cervantes, proved to be the most difficult part of the book. Where Cervantes bestowed some time in writing the book, yet it cost me not half so much labor as this very preface. This problem becomes a story within itself, where Cervantes asks a friend for help in writing the preface, describing the story within what he is actually writing. His argument is so convincing, Cervantes changes the format of his novel and writes it as little stories within a larger one. Although ...
- 1156: Comparison Of Daniel Sonnet 6
- ... mistress, on a pedestal. Shakespeare turned these ideas on their heads by portraying a mistress who was by no means special and most certainly unappealing. During Daniel's time there was a traditional way of writing love poems. Many of these poems talked of an unattainable woman whose love and perfection was so great she could only be considered to be divine. This is exactly what Daniel did. He wrote of an idea of what the perfect love would be using metaphors. Daniel uses metaphors that related to something of great power or energy, such as the sun, writing "although her eyes are sunny." Daniel uses the sun to compliment the mystical sense of his mistress. When Daniel talks of the eyes, he is explaining the power that can be seen in her eyes ... s only child and being pure. To Daniel this is what kind of love and qualities his mistress has and this can only truly be an idea. In contrast, Shakespeare has his own way of writing this image. Shakespeare chooses an unconventional form of love poetry. The form he uses almost mocks the traditional form of love poetry that Daniel writes about. Shakespeare believes that true love is not an ...
- 1157: Contributions Of Ancient Egypt
- ... an effective way of life. One of the gifts that the Egyptian empire had bestowed on the heathens of modern society was the beginning of an elaborate alphabetic system. It was from this system of writing that many other contributions such as an accurate calendar and mathematical equations that the Egyptians were able to move forward with architectural wonders, specialized doctors and the practices of justice and religious rituals. The Egyptians established a form of writing known as hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics was a style of writing which incorporated the three characters of pictographic, syllabic, and alphabetic. Both pictographic and syllabic characters were primarily established within Sumerian cuneiform. It was later that the Egyptians combined the Sumerian cuneiform along with an ...
- 1158: Edgar Allan Poe
- ... with his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, in Baltimore, Maryland. None of his poetry had sold particularly well, so he decided to write stories. He could find no publisher for his stories, and so resorted to entering writing contests to make money and receive exposure. He was rarely successful, but eventually won. His short story, MS. Found in a Bottle was well liked and one of the judges in the contest, John P ... he reached manhood, after a sheltered childhood and teenage years, his life seemed to be caught up in failures. So, he did what most people do. He found a way to escape. His method was writing. He found so much in common with his characters, that his life began to emulate theirs. Although it is probably the other way around. How tragic that the one thing that he was good at ... Hawthorne, Charles Brockden Brown, E. T. A. Hoffman, and William Godwin to name a few. Many of his stories show similarities to the works of the aforementioned. Therefore another point is brought up, was Poe writing these stories as the result of a tortured existence and a need to escape, or was he writing to please readers and critics? In letters he wrote, he often pokes fun at his stories ...
- 1159: Robert Frost
- ... 1874) to the middle 1900 s (1963), Robert Frost gave the world a window to view the world through poetry. From A Boy s Will to Mountain Interval, he has explored many different aspects of writing. Giving us poems that define hope and happiness to poems of pure morbid characteristics; all of Robert Frost s poems explain the nature of living. But why does Frost take two totally different views in ... of the animosities that plagued his life, Robert Frost evolved to become one of America s greatest poets. Frost s poems were not respected in the United States at the time that he first began writing. But after a brief stay in England, Frost emerged as one of the most extraordinary writers in his time. Publishing A Boy s Will and North Of Boston, Frost began his quest. In the book ... had his fill. After his return to America, tragedy struck his family. With the loss of his infant son, Frost found himself for the first time at a loss of words. Frost felt that his writing was therapeutic, so his journey continued. In this next book, North Of Boston, Frost for the first time shows evidence of his maturing by writing a short narrative essay called Home Burial. Using his ...
- 1160: John Steinbeck
- ... through school, with his main interest in science. At age 15 he decided to become a writer, influenced by an English teacher, and faintly remembered by schoolmates for spending so much time in his room writing. After graduating from high school, he went to Stanford University in 1920. While he was there for five he contributed to the school paper by writing poems and comics. He took courses in science and writing, but never received a degree. In 1925, when he left Stanford, he became a marine biologist. He moved to New York in 1925 to work as a reporter for a newspaper. Always being a ...
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