Drew Blythe Barrymore was born in 1975, California, to John Drew Barrymore and Ildiko Jaid. Unfortunately, her parents separated 2 months before she was born and Jaid was left to raise Drew all by herself. They eventually got divorced when she was 9 years old. Born into Hollywood’s prestigious Barrymore family, with three generations of movie stars preceding her, the budding actress' career began with an appearance in a TV advert before she a even a year old. Aged seven, her godfather Steven Spielberg, cast her in the cult classic ET and three years later she starred in Stephen King's Cat's Eye .The young prodigy was soon Hollywood’s little darling, charming everyone she met and hitting it off at the box office. Then it all went terribly wrong. Drew Barrymore recalls having her first alcoholic beverage at age 9. By 10 years of age, she was hooked on marijuana, by 12, on cocaine and amphetamines. She went to rehab aged 14 years old and after being given a clean bill ...

Vyoma Vijai Blog Post 1 Transference is a psychodynamic theory first described by Sigmund Freud. It involves the unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another. A theory used in psychotherapy primarily, involves the transference of feelings, which could be positive, negative or even sexual from the patient towards their therapist. A positive transference from the patient to the therapist involves the transference of healthy relationships in the patient’s past towards their therapist. This form of transference has a positive outcome on the relationship between the patient and the therapist. A negative transference is helpful for the therapist as it helps the therapist gain an insight towards the underlying reasons for the negative transference and can help the therapist get to the root of the issue. The last form of transference is sexualized transference; this kind of transference involves the client developing romantic and sexual feelings towar...

|Indira Bulhan Blog post: 1 “Manga is for kids” (My ignorant friend, 2018). Manga is often treated by people as something which is not so serious. However, it holds within itself some dark aspects of humanity. One such example is Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan). In it, the character of Levi Ackerman has been through a series of events which sets him apart from the people around him. Through this blog post, I will look upon the nature of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its relationship with defense mechanisms and empathy.     Levi’s past is filled with events which can act as strong stressors for the development of trauma: the death of his mother at an early age, abandonment by father, raised by his uncle in the underworld in a highly unhygienic and malnourished state (who later abandons him again), death of his two closest friends and lover. Post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD can be defined as a mental disorder which can happen to peopl...