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Questions to be answered in your paper:

1. What mental health diagnosis, if any, would you apply to the wife? Why? Give me the criteria and symptoms you believe support your diagnosis.

2. What contributed to her condition?

3. Describe Johns attitude and behavior towards his wife. How does he treat her? Do you think that many health care providers treat patients the same way? Discuss.

4. In your opinion, are the symptoms, treatments, and causes of the mental illness you think the wife suffers from described in The Yellow Wall-Paper applicable today? Why or why not?

5. Briefly explain what pareidolia is and why this is or is not what the wife experienced.

6. Describe the interrelationship of emotional, intellectual, physical and social health.

7. Discuss your feelings, thoughts on what happened to the wife as you read the book.

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