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Client name: Rayna Would you be able to provide a brief overview of our case study on Virginia Woolf? I attached her story and am hoping you could do this I was asked to write 300 words ... Choose a case study from the supplemental text (Case Studies in Abnormal Behavior, 8th ed.). Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word analysis of your selected case, in which you demonstrate an application of clinical psychology in a real-world situation. Address the following items: - Provide a brief overview of your selected case. (My part)...I was asked to write a minimum of 300 - Discuss the biological, psychological, and social factors involved in your selected case. - Use your selected case study to explain which interventions would be appropriate in the field of clinical psychology. For each intervention you select, provide the following: - The rationale for selecting the intervention - What would be done - Who would be involved - In what setting the intervention would occur - Which area the intervention is targeting, such as biological, psychological, or social factors Use information from at least three peer-reviewed publications to support your points. Format your analysis consistent with APA guidelines, including a reference page. THE CASE OF VIRGINIA WOOLF *A Specific Instance of Bipolar Creativity* Virginia Woolf is regarded as one of the most talented prose writers of the twentieth century, and was one of the first writers to describe the relativity of individual experience. In 1915, she published *The Voyage Out*, and in the next 30 years she wrote dozens of literary reviews, essays, stories, and 15 more books, including classics such as *To the Lighthouse * and *The Waves. *The most famous, *A Room of One’s Own*, established her as an early leader of the women’s movement. In that book are reflected the extremes of her own life: “The beauty of the world … has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder” (Woolf, 1957). She was admired for fervently expressing all ranges of human emotion. From childhood on, Woolf was afflicted with bipolar disorder, which those around her described as lapses into insanity. The emotional highs and lows of that disorder contributed to her passion in writing novels, yet ultimately destroyed her (Bell, 1972; Lehmann, 1975). *Childhood* Virginia Stephen was born in 1882, the second of four children, in Cambridge, England. Her father was Sir Leslie Stephen, a distinguished editor. She had two half-sisters. One was born to her father by his first wife, who was institutionalized most of her life for mental problems; and the other, Stella Duckworth, was born to her mother and her mother’s first husband. She also had two Duckworth half-brothers. Virginia was exceptionally attractive, and she lived in a home where aunts, uncles, and cousins circulated constantly. The family was in the upper-middle professional class and emphasized intellectual achievement. Virginia read everything she could find. At first, her father carefully chose what books she should read from their large library. However, by the time she was in her teens, she had read so much that he permitted her to read whatever she desired. During these times, this was a great amount of freedom for a girl. Virginia, who could not attend school because she was female, always envied her brother Thoby, who was educated at Cambridge. She taught herself English literature and received private lessons in Latin and Greek. Virginia had been very close to her mother and described her mother’s death, when Virginia was 13, as “the greatest disaster that could happen” (Lehmann, 1975, p. 13). Also, in reaction to her mother’s death, Virginia’s father became extremely demanding, unreasonable, and moody. Her stepsister, Stella Duckworth, took over their mother’s role. This is when Virginia had her first breakdown. Her pulse raced, and she felt uncontrollably excited (possibly a panic attack; see Chapter 3); later, she slipped into a deep depression. Her doctor prescribed outdoor exercise. Her lessons had been stopped, but she still read continuously. Only two months after Virginia’s mother died, Stella, whom Virginia also loved deeply, died. Without Stella, Virginia’s father became tyrannical and full of self-pity. The next-oldest sister, Vanessa, then took their mother’s place. Mr. Stephen was so inconsiderate and selfish to Vanessa that Virginia found herself torn between loving her father and despising him for the way he was behaving. When her father died in 1904, Virginia had an even more extreme breakdown. It started slowly, with headaches and moments of intense irritation, and then escalated into a severe manic state in which she felt intense guilt about her father. Virginia saw her nurses as evil, refused to eat, and tried to kill herself by jumping out a window. When she was able to lie down, she believed the birds were chirping in Greek and that King Edward VII was swearing and hiding in the bushes. She lived in a time before effective treatment for this disorder had been discovered; therefore, the few doctors who examined her prescribed only rest. *Adult Years* Virginia’s sexual development was deficient. Her two half-brothers had sexually abused her. Gerald examined her genitals when she was age 5, and George would periodically come into her bedroom and paw and fondle her when she was a teenager. Also, during her adolescence, Virginia fell deeply in love with her cousin, a girl named Madge. Later, an older woman friend who helped Virginia through her breakdowns became the object of Virginia’s deepest love. Whether these women ever knew the extent of Virginia’s affection is not clear. With both parents deceased, Virginia and five of her siblings traveled to Greece. Vanessa, Violet, and Thoby contracted typhoid fever from impure milk, and from this disease Thoby died, another great blow to Virginia. Following this, Virginia’s older sister married, leaving Virginia alone with her younger brother. Virginia and her brother took over a weekly social group that their older sister had started, and over many weeks Virginia became much more outgoing and willing to express her opinions, quickly becoming known for her sharp tongue. (Her fame in this regard, in concert with her pioneering role in the women’s movement, inspired the title of the modern play by Edward Albee [later made into a movie], *Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*) Virginia began her career by writing book reviews for several well-respected magazines. During this time, she was pursued by many men, and she finally accepted the marriage proposal of Lytton Strachey. Immediately after proposing, however, he changed his mind and admitted his homosexuality to her. Leonard Woolf, a friend of Lytton, soon began dating Virginia. They married in August 1912, despite the fact that he was Jewish and she was at least at times anti-Semitic. Leonard Woolf passionately loved Virginia; however, she did not respond to him sexually at all, as her sexual preference was for females. Then in March 1913, she began another breakdown. Leonard described Virginia’s episodes as lapses into insanity wherein she lost complete contact with reality. She experienced wild excitement, intense guilt and depression, and delusions that her nurses were evil. During one episode, she talked rapidly for several days without stopping, after which she fell into a stupor. Virginia was able to remember most of what happened during her altered states. Through the years, it seemed these episodes always occurred when Virginia was in the last stages of writing a novel. Through the 1920s, Virginia had no serious relapses, possibly because Leonard began enforcing total rest and quiet on Virginia when he detected another episode coming. Virginia was becoming famous, and over the years she was invited to the United States and Cambridge to give lectures and receive public honors, but she refused almost every invitation. Finally, in the last stage of writing *Between* *the Acts*in 1941, she felt another attack coming. The fears and tormenting voices seemed real and endless. This time, she was convinced that the suffering would never stop. She wrote farewell letters to Leonard and her sister, filled her pockets with stones, and drowned herself in a nearby river. The letter to Leonard was as follows (Bell, 1972): Dearest, I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don’t think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can’t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can’t even write this properly. I can’t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that—everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer. Idon’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.