ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life, 9th Ed. Robert C. Carson, James N. Butcher 1992 | Harper Collins in library Abnormal Psychology CONTENTS abnormal psychology perspectives [overview | history | perspectives (biological, psychosocial, sociocultura) | causal factors] assessments treatments prevention abnormal patterns stress & adjustment disorders anxiety based disorders psychological factors & physical illness mood disorders & suicide schizophrenia & delusional disorders personality disorders development disorders DSM-IV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Ed. Desk Reference to the Diagnostic Criteria from DSM-IV 1994 American Psychological Association | Washington DC not in library Abnormal & Preventative Psychology journals list (1995) PS100- PSYCHOPATHOLOGY ch19) Psychopathology | Review ch19 Different Conceptions of Madness insanity as demonic possession | insanity as a disease Pathology Model subcategories of the pathology model | mental disorder a pathology | classifying mental disorders | explaining disorder: diathesis, stress, and pathology Schizophrenia symptoms | subcategories of schizophrenia | search for the underlying pathology | more remote causes of schizophrenia | pathology model and schizophrenia Mood Disorders symptom pattern | organic factors | psychogenic factors | mood disorders and the diathesis-stress conception Anxiety Disorders phobias | obsessive-compulsive disorders | generalized anxiety disorders | panic disorder | anxiety disorders and the pathology model Conversions and Dissociative Disorders conversion disorders | dissociative disorders | factors that underlie conversions and dissociative conditions Psychophysiological disorders essential hypertension | coronary heart disease | diathesis-stress concept and psychophysiological disorders Categorical Review Sociological Critique of the Pathology Model what society does to those it calls mad | whom does society call mad? | social deviance | some contributions of labeling theory Scope of Psychopathology ch20) Treatment of Psychopathology | Review ch20 Somatic Therapies drug therapies | other somatic therapies Psychotherapy classical psychoanalysis | modern versions of psychoanalysis | behavior therapy | cognitive-behavioral therapies | humanistic therapies | some common themes Evaluating Therapeutic Outcome does psychotherapy work? | comparing different therapies Extensions of Psychotherapy group therapy | marital and family therapy } expansion of therapeutic goals Century of Therapy [back to vault]