The Fifth Edition of this popular, introductory abnormal psychology text has been revised and updated. DSM IIIR is incorporated into the text. The treatment is comprehensive, covering both experimental and clinical approaches--includes a wealth of research-based information. Contains new material on somatoform and borderline disorders and on biomedical and psychoanalytic perspectives.
In addition to the traditional psychological literature, this book draws from work in the cognitive and affective neurosciences, epidemiology, ethology, and genetics.
In one example of these effects, suicides rose 12 percent in the month after Marilyn Monroe's suicide (Phillips, 1985). A review of 293 studies found that media coverage of a celebrity suicide is much more likely to spark an increase in ...
... 100–101 characteristics of, 97–98 cognitive, 103–104 definition of, 98–99 flexibilities, 103 foundations of, 94–95 theoretical, 99–100 expansion, 97 licensing, ethical, and legal concerns of, 105– 106 origins, 95–97 present status, ...
In these three volumes, a team of scholars provides a thoughtful history of abnormal psychology, demonstrating how concepts regarding disordered mental states, their causes, and their treatments developed and evolved across the ages.
Describes how psychological research has led to the understanding of many of those factors and how our personalities develop.
Abnormal Psychology
... R. P., 605 Fisher, T., 384 Fisher, W., 26 Fishman, I., 180 Fitzgerald, D. A., 300 Flanagan, E. H., 143 Fletcher, ... A.J., 147, 372 Frank, R., 87 Franklin, J., 366 Franklin, M., 309, 314 Franko, D., 371 Fredriksen, M., 189 Freire, ...
In M. B. Stein & T. Steckler (Eds.), Behavioral neurobiology ofanxiety and its treatment. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences (pp. 391–413). NewYork: Springer Science + Business Media. Sprecher, S., & Hatfield, E. (1996).
As indicated by its title A History of Great Ideas in Abnormal Psychology, this book is not just concerned with the chronology of events or with biographical details of great psychiatrists and psychopathologists.
In Barbara's case, for example, a psychoanalyst might have argued that her inability to reach orgasm during intercourse was associated with fear of success in the sense that being successful in her adult sexual relationship might be ...