#murdochuni

You know something isn't right when you'd rather be at home writing about the various etiological theories of dissociative identity disorder, and how this effects treating it, than being at work.

Actually, probably is a good thing - Means that my decision to throw my life round a hairpin bend was a good one. Because other than still not quite having the hang of writing in a clinical and dehumanised fashion (I can write D/HD essays for everything but Psych at the moment, it seems) I am quite enjoying this degree.

... have three pages (Double-space, 12pt TNR) just in the references. Will probably be more by the time I'm done. It's not like this is meant to be a large essay only, I just somehow ended up with about 15 different articles on the subject (Only needed 10). Eh, more is better to be sure but I only has 2000 words to use.

Definitely an interesting topic I chose for my abnormal psych essay, the brief reading I've done tells me that. Going to be real interesting when I get into DID and comorbidity, which it seems to often be found as, bound to make diagnosis and treatment a whole pile harder if you've got other symptons to carefully ascertain as well.

So my next essay, in my continued efforts to be something more in line with what I want, is on the etiologies of DID and how these theories affect treatment.

From what little I know of DID, it's going to be an interesting topic to research let alone write about. Will be interested indeed to see what the "zomg, we must be seen as a science!" articles say about something that... well, last I checked we have no absolutely 100% way of determining if a person lies let alone what goes on inside their head.

Finally finished my Psych: Community & Culture essay (Well, the first one for the unit... sigh...). Had the interesting topic of arguing whether or not there is validity in claiming a difference in intelligence according to "race" (i.e. that incorrectly-used term that refers more to culture than any major biological difference. Last time I checked, we was ALL Homo Sapiens).

What surprised me more was the fact that I was able to find recent articles still arguing that White > Black... and they weren't by an American either. I know quite a few good Americans, but I swear you also got the largest concentration of redneck fuckstains on the planet too. Sadly, us Aussie's got a too-large population of them too :(

Was interesting to write, especially as I had to write it according to academic evidence (Naturally) and not let my own strong opinion on the topic bleed through. Thankfully, plenty of articles to be found countering such idiotic thoughts.