Psychopathology | A Source Book

Charles F. Reed (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0674367006 / ISBN 13: 9780674367005

Published by Harvard University Press, 2014

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Psychopathology | A Source Book | Charles F. Reed (u. a.) | Buch | Englisch | 2014 | Harvard University Press | EAN 9780674367005 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: De Gruyter, Genthiner Str. 13, 10785 Berlin, orders-books[at]degruyter[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Psychopathology | A Source Book
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674367006
• ISBN 13: 9780674367005
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 236W x 160H x 49D millimeters 236 millimeters width by 160 millimeters height by 49 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1344 grams
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Synopsis

This book--first published in 1958, and designed for courses on abnormal psychology and psychiatry--is intended to supplement the usual textbook material in abnormal psychology. Papers have been selected to introduce the student to the active and complex enterprise of investigation and hypothesis in this wide field. Conflicting evidence and allegiances, riddles and ingenuity, are displayed in order to stimulate an appreciation of the task of discovery in behavioral science.

Five general areas are represented in the selections: (i) the problem of the effects of early experience on psychological development; (2) psychosomatic disorders and neurosis; (3) schizophrenic psychosis; (4) somatic factors in psychopathology; and (5) the social context and its effects on the phenomena of behavior. Against a background of systematic study, the graduate or undergraduate student will find in the forty-six papers included here an instructive sampling of the periodical literature.

Says Robert W. White in his introduction to the book: "There is no longer an air that the problem of schizophrenia, or of neurosis, or of psychosomatic disorder is going to be solved by a stroke of insight and a simple theory. Where once it was hoped to unlock the secret of a disorder, we now know that we must creep up slowly upon its many secrets and that we must use to the utmost the help provided by scientific method. In this new climate the present book is an indispensable teaching aid."