Throughout history the way we live, the way we interact with other people and the way and reason we create art has been carefully structured by countless factors that we encounter every day of our lives. Many of these factors can be grouped together and categorised as 'Psychogeography', the term coined by French theorist Guy Debord in 1955. Debord's definition described the term as 'the study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions & behaviour of individuals’(1), in his work he deeply considered the effects that physical structure in the environment has on the way humans interact with each other and the space they inhabit. Guy Debord was a part of an organization that encouraged and supported the ideas of like minded artists, theorists and intellectuals called the 'Situationist International' (SI), whose ideologies were of prioritising the study and discussion of real life; temporal subjects that concerned modern society. A principle cultivated by the SI that closely relates to psychogeography is the idea of dérive ("drift"). Debord illustrates the theory of dérive as an environmental distraction, 'In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there'(2). Dérive alludes that when humans detect changes in elements of our geographical surroundings natural instinct causes us to change our paths. Debord also describes the act of dérive in a way that connotes the idea of invisible auras that surround individual locations, "The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the spa...
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...ace expels it as threatening and dangerous (to power). The primacy of the economic and above all of the political implies the supremacy of space over time....”. Doing our job requires a heavier focus on measuring time. We have to arrive, leave and return at a certain time, and this must always be adhered to. Given that our social interest nowadays predominantly resides in doing our jobs, time is controlled by the economic sphere of society. Time is subordinate to work. Meanwhile the political sphere thinks that lived time; leisure time, is dangerous, because that may give us time to reflect on society and begin to think about changing it, when they'd rather we were only concerned with working. This is what is meant by the supremacy of space over time: physical spaces are colonised by the economic and political spheres, and in this way they can physically govern time.
Social psychology is a scientific study that studies how people think, feel, and how they behave under the influence of other people (Aronson, Wilson & Akert, 2013, p. 2). Thinking about what social influence really means, we tend to think of a person who tries to persuade another person to acting a certain way. It can be a form of peer pressure, like taking that first puff of a cigarette, or it can be conforming to popular societal views, such as obeying the law of the land. Fiction is a great way to learn about social psychological perspectives. Watching popular theatrical films is the perfect way to learn because it illustrates the application of many perceptions within the subject of social psychology.
The model of addiction etiology that best describes why people get addicted and how best to help them is biopsychosocial model. The biopsychosocial model, first developed by cardiologist Dr. George Engel, is today widely accepted by the mental health professions. The biopsychosocial model describes addiction as a brain illness that causes personality and social problems. The biopsychosocial model lets us to make solid and accurate differences between substance use, abuse, and dependence. It also allows the signs of addiction to be recognized and structured into progressive stages.
Buddha, Confucius, and other lesser known Hebrew scholars philosophized on the mind in an expansive sense.
...lves the confirmation of the boundaries of the social world through the sorting of things into good and bad categories. They enter the unconscious through the process of socialisation.’ Then, “the articulation of space and its conception is a reminder that time boundaries are inextricably connected to exclusionary practises which are defined in refusing to adhere to the separation of black experience.”
The theory our learning team is studying is the psychodynamic approach or what is sometimes called psychoanalytic approach. The main contributors to Psychodynamic approaches was the founder Sigmund Freud (1859-1939), Anna Freud (1895-1982) gave significant contribution to the psychodynamics of adolescence and Erik Erickson (1902-1994) called the “new” Freud but with an emphasis on ego (conscious) forces, termed as psychosocial theory (Craig & Dunn, p 11-13). Psychodynamics is the explanation or interpretation (as of behavior or mental states) in terms of mental or emotional forces or processes (www.merriam-webster.com)
The ways in which people are placed within “time space compression” as highly complicated and extremely varied. For instance, in the book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara said, “ Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person who in addition possesses a working car, can barely support herself by the sweat of her brow. You do not need a degree in economics to see that wages are too low and rents too high”(127). Barbara has a car so that she can drive to her workplace and save the time from waiting public transportation, and she also can go to different cities whenever she is free. Therefore, she has more control of her mobility. The social relations would change when she went to another city. Different social groups have distinct relationships to this anyway differentiated mobility: some people are more in charge of it than others, like Barbara; some initiate flows and movement, others do not; some are more more on the receiving-end of it than others. Instead of thinking of places as areas with boundaries around, they can be imaged as articulated moments in networks of social relations and understandings, but where a large proportion of those relations, experiences and understandings are structed ona far larger scale than what we happen to define for that moment as the place itself, whether that be a street, or a region or even a continent. We can see that from her different work experiences in different places. And this in turn allows a sense of place which is extroverted, which includes a consciousness of its links with the wider world, which integrates ina apositive way the global and the
Creation of place is dynamic and influenced by human perception. Theses meanings are always changing because someone’s perception of a place are always changing, depending on time, context and social interactions. For example, in cities, changing the patterns of social communication can make and unmake places, uplifting or diminishing the appeal of a site. Similar to the poem “The Tropics of New York” by Claude McKay and the novel the “Passing” by Nella Larsen and others. In relation to literature you need to pay attention to the little things in the stories that are read. I choose the texts “Passing” by Nella Larsen and “The Tropics of New” by Claude McKay because the two texts provide great examples that push my point even further. The spaces and places that are discussed in literature are usually meant to make you think in a different way about where you fit in. No matter where or how a space or place is in literature, it will aid a character to hold onto their original values from their unique space or place. Although a person may have an emotional connection with a place it always shapes people’s perspective on things such as new spaces and places, there is an emotional connection to
Psychodynamic therapy, focuses on unconscious mind and how past experiences, inner thoughts, fears, and emotions The main goal of psychodynamic therapy is for clients to be self-aware of the past and how it effects who they are in the present. This type of therapy focuses on the underlying problems and emotions that influenced the client’s behavior. (Psych Central, 2016)
In Alain de Botton’s collection of philosophical essays, The Art of Travel and Tim Winton’s short story ‘Neighbours’ the representation of people and landscapes leads us to a greater awareness of the complexity of human attitudes and behaviours. This is explored through the idea that changes in one’s receptivity to the landscape can determine their perspective of it and thus influence their behaviour and attitude towards those people in the landscape.
This computer system alone in my opinion is the actual barrier and against any of my morals when it comes to me determining a treatment method. According to Pomerantz (2014) the approach that I would use must be evidence based and a team effort. Things that might create resistance to therapy might be social barriers, psychological barriers, alcoholic withdrawal or drug withdrawal that sometimes poses as other issues (NCBI.gov).
Anxiety is defined as a diffuse, internal, loose floating tension that doesn’t have a real danger or an external object. There is also a significant difference from the notion of fear. Fear usually has an outer object (a real fear of a snake, height or an unreal fear, when the danger is just imagined). Anxiety does not have an external object or external danger but has an internal danger. Internal danger can be some intrapsychic conflict, impulse unacceptable to the ego, suppressed thoughts, etc.
‘Through identifying places and organizing them, we make sense of the world we inhibit’ (Unwin,
The way that each individual interprets, retrieves, and responds to the information in the world that surrounds you is known as perception. It is a personal way of creating opinions about others and ourselves in everyday life and being able to recognize it under various conditions. Each person’s perceptions are used as a kind of filter that every piece of information has to pass through before it determines the effect that it has or will have on the person from the stimulus. It is convincing to believe that we create multiple perceptions about different situations and objects each day. Perceptions reflect our opinions in many ways. The quality of a person’s perceptions is very important and can affect the response that is given through different situations. Perception is often deceived as reality. “Through perception, people process information inputs into responses involving feelings and action.” (Schermerhorn, et al.; p. 3). Perception can be influenced by a person’s personality, values, or experiences which, in turn, can play little role in reality. People make sense of the world that they perceive because the visual system makes practical explanations of the information that the eyes pick up.
Health psychology is a relatively new concept rapidly growing and could be defined as the biological and psychological influences affect ones behaviour also bringing in social influences of health and illness (MacDonald, 2013). Biological determinants consider genetic and biological factors of an illness whereas psychological determinants focus on the psychological factors such as why people behave the way they do when dealing with issues such as anxiety and stress. Models such as the Health Belief Model and Locus of Control were developed in attempt to try and explain psychological issues around a chronic illness such as breast cancer (Ogden, 2012). Sociological factors can cause an enormous amount of pressure for one to behave in a certain way for example gender roles in society and religious considerations when dealing with health beliefs. Health Beliefs can be defined as one’s own perception to their own personal health and illness and health behaviours (Ogden, 2012). There are also theories and models used to explain pain and coping with diagnosis such as Moos and Schaefer (1984) Crisis theory and Shontz (1975) cycle of grief people go through when being diagnosed with a serious illness.
Mental health refers to the state of individuals psychologically, emotionally and socially. Mental health affects a person’s emotions, feelings, thoughts, and sections when exposed to different situations. Furthermore, mental health is responsible for a person’s reaction to stress and other social conditions. Generally, mental health affects how a person relates to others and their ability to understand and interact with them. Therefore, problems that affect a person’s mental health affect the abilities to socialize, their feelings, moods, reaction to situations. The person experiencing mental health problem may portray different behaviors when confronted with different issues. Mental health issues have several