Friday, August 30, 2013
AMANDA YATES: CONVICTED PSYCHATRIC
Which level of psychological analysis is the most convincing to you? Explain why.
The Amanda Yates Case is a horrifying story that forces idividuals to take a closer look on how the human brain works and what drives people to make crazy life-altering descions. I believe that the behavioral and social cultural perspective to be the most covincing factor in this case. Looking into the background story of Yates' descion, evidence can be drawn that the enviroment around her caused her actions. An absent and unwilling husband, unsupportive family and friends, and being taken off anti-depression meds could have triggered these obscene actions on her children. In my own experieneces, any form of neglect or distancey from my family and friends leads me to feeling sad and empty. While I know how to handle these feelings of saddness, not everyone is as capable. With Yates prior use or anti-depression meds, her emotions coudld overcrowd her sanity. While drowing your kids in a bathtub does have to do with mental disease, I belive that it was her coruppted enviroment that lead her to it.
What important principle might this case reveal about the nature of psychology?
Ultiamately, I belive this case to be a good example of the nature of how psychology encourages a new persepctive on matters.When approaching cases of this sort, it's the right initive to convict her and put her in jail; however the psycholosist perspective reveals the background to why this case happened, and what causes the actions. Looking over her case, there are many details that can be lead to why she drowned her kids, that is where psychology comes in; to determind that this is more to the situaution then her act of violence.
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Your comment on her being taken off her medication makes me ponder if she would have committed the acts if she never took the medication in the first place. She may have became dependent on her medication to deal with her lonely life and she could not handle her life without that crutch. I wonder if biologically her medication caused physical changes to her neurotransmitter receptors.
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ReplyDeleteI strongly agree with your views about Yates' environment playing a role in this tragedy. Neglect from family and friends results in anger and resentment in most people. Yates is no exception, and the additional factor of her canceled prescription could have prompted this anger into violence.
Haylee,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and the comments above me. If Yates were to have a functional/stable environment and family life, would this crime even of happened? And as for her being taken off her medication, could that have influence the crime too? Could the stress that Andrea undergone during this time period cause any other normal person to commit the crime that she did?
Haylee,
ReplyDeleteAlthough her environment played a LARGE role in her actions, there is no exception for how she acted. Yes her family and friends did not support her, but Andrea pushed all of them away. Andrea could have reached out for help, it was her mental illness that stopped her from doing so. There is only so much that Andrea's friends and family could do.
Haylee, I have to agree with Kristyn on this one; even though I do feel that her environment influenced her insanity, I feel that her sorrow could not have brought upon such delusions. Suicidal thoughts, unfortunately, is one thing that definitely arises from loneliness but drowning your kids because you want to save them from the devil is an entirely different level of insane, hence suggesting that something in her brain is terribly troubled. I think you bring up an interesting point though and that is her capability to deal with her hard feelings and her lack there of in itself exemplifies a disconnect with her mental state; I also believe it was clear to those around her that she needed help since they had her in-laws keeping an eye on her, so it bewilders me that she was no longer on meds.
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