Basic Issues in Psychopathology

Psychopathology is a discipline in search of a framework within which data from sciences such as biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and ethology can be integrated. This volume provides the first in-depth discussion of basic conceptual and methodological issues that must be resolved before such a framework can be constructed.

Charles G. Costello, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of Calgary. He attended Manchester University, Durham University of London University, from which he received his doctorate in Psychology under the supervision of Hans J. Eysenck in 1960. His other books include Psychology for Psychiatrists (1966), N=1: Experimental Investigation of the Individual Case (1969), Symptoms of Psychopathology (1970), Anxiety and Depression: The Adaptive Emotions (1976), and Symptoms of Depression (1993).