Author: Ivan P. Pavlov
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: psychiatry, psychopathology
Number of Pages: 451
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1560007079
ISBN-13: 9781560007074

Author: Stephen Strack Ph.D.
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: psychopathology, personology, handbook
Number of Pages: 580
Published: 2005-01-19
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0471459070
ISBN-13: 9780471459071

Personology is the study of human character in all of its complexities, covering the range of normal and pathological individuals, from evolutionary development, classification, diagnosis and measurement, to intervention at the individual, family, and societal levels. This volume, sure to become a classic in the field, provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of personology, including personality theory, taxonomy, and assessment; diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders; and the interface between normal and abnormal personlity. The breadth and depth of this monumental work and

Author: Bette Bonder PhD OTR/L FAOTA
Publisher: Slack Incorporated
Keywords: function, psychopathology
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-12-17
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 1556426275
ISBN-13: 9781556426278

Psychopathology and Function, Third Edition is a one-of-a-kind reference that compares diagnostic criteria used by other mental health professionals with the framework used by occupational therapists. Updated and revised, the third edition includes the most recent, critical information available on psychiatric diagnosis. This book provides an overview of both the development of the classification system — Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV) — and the occupational therapy process in mental health. The relationship of these two different models for conceptuali

Author: Bruce P. Dohrenwend
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: psychopathology, stress, adversity
Number of Pages: 567
Published: 1998-07-15
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0195121929
ISBN-13: 9780195121926

"Adversity" involves exposure to unpropitious or calamitous circumstances. It occurs in extreme situations such as prolonged combat or natural disasters, both of which affect whole groups or communities of people simultaneously. It is found as well in more individually targeted events such as child abuse, bereavement, rape, physical illness, marital separation or divorce, unemployment, and homelessness. Exposure to adversity is not randomly distributed in society. It varies with gender, ethnic or racial background, and socioeconomic status. In this volume, leading investigators review resea

Author: Karl Jaspers
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: volume, psychopathology, general
Number of Pages: 594
Published: 1997-11-18
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0801858151
ISBN-13: 9780801858154

In 1910, Karl Jaspers wrote a seminal essay on morbid jealousy in which he laid the foundation for the psychopathological phenomenology that through his work and the work of Hans Gruhle and Kurt Schneider, among others, would become the hallmark of the Heidelberg school of psychiatry. In General Psychopathology, his most important contribution to the Heidelberg school, Jaspers critiques the scientific aspirations of psychotherapy, arguing that in the realm of the human, the explanation of behavior through the observation of regularity and patterns in it (Erklärende Psychologie) must be supple

Author: Stephen J. Giannangelo
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Keywords: murder, serial, psychopathology
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 1996
List price: $106.95
ISBN-10: 027595434X
ISBN-13: 9780275954345

In this book, criminologist Stephen Giannangelo offers an original theory of the origins and development of the serial murderer. The author constructs a two-part model of the serial murderer’s development. The first part outlines biological factors and concomitant psychological anomalies that can predispose individuals toward homicidal behavior. Then, in developing the second part of his model, Giannangelo describes how a traumatic environmental stressor may trigger a cyclical pattern of violent behavior in those persons predisposed to kill. Having constructed his archetype of the serial

Author: Sigmund Freud
Publisher: IAP
Keywords: life, everyday, psychopathology
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2009-05-07
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 856202287X
ISBN-13: 9788562022876

Professor Freud developed his system of psychoanalysis while studying the so-called borderline cases of mental diseases, such as hysteria and compulsion neurosis. By discarding the old methods of treatment and strictly applying himself to a study of the patient’s life, he discovered that the puzzling symptoms had a definite meaning, and that there was nothing arbitrary in any morbid manifestation. Psychoanalysis always showed that they referred to some definite problem or conflict of the person concerned. It was while tracing back the abnormal to the normal state that Professor Freud fou