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The Breaking Point (TVB)
Breaking Point or The Breaking Point may refer to: General * Breaking point (psychology), a critical moment of personal stress * Breaking strength, in engineering, the stress at which a specimen fails via fracture Film * ''The Breaking Point'' (1921 film), an American film by Paul Scardon * ''The Breaking Point'' (1924 film), an American film by Herbert Brenon * ''The Breaking Point'' (1950 film), an American adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's ''To Have and Have Not'' * ''The Breaking Point'' (1961 film), a British crime film by Lance Comfort * ''Breaking Point'' (1975 film), a Swedish erotic horror film by Bo Arne Vibenius * ''Breaking Point'' (1976 film), an American film by Bob Clark * ''Breaking Point'' (1989 film), an American television remake of the 1965 suspense film ''36 Hours'' * ''Breaking Point'', a 1994 film starring Gary Busey * ''Breaking Point'' (2005 film), a Canadian TV documentary about the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum * ''Breaking Point'' (2009 fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking Point (psychology)
In human psychology, the breaking point is a moment of stress in which a person breaks down or a situation becomes critical. The intensity of environmental stress necessary to bring this about varies from individual to individual. Interrogation Getting someone to confess to a crime during an interrogation – whether innocent or guilty – means the suspect has been broken. The key to breaking points in interrogation has been linked to changes in the victim's concept of self – changes which may be precipitated by a sense of helplessness, by lack of preparedness or an underlying sense of guilt, as well (paradoxically) as by an inability to acknowledge one's own vulnerabilities. Life Psychoanalysts like Ronald Fairbairn and Neville Symington considered that everybody has a potential breaking point in life, with vulnerability particularly intense at early developmental stages. Some psychoanalysts say that rigid personalities may be able to endure great stress before suddenly crac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |