A new three-volume study, Abnormal Psychology Across the Ages, shows how far we have come in diagnosing and treating mental illness. In the Renaissance, the mentally ill were feared, shunned, and ...

By Dr Vasilios SilivistrisPsychology, the scientific study of the mind and behaviour, helps us understand why people think, feel and act the way they do. Because human behaviour is so complex, the ...

Abnormal psychology explores patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors that cause significant distress or disrupt life. It draws on criteria such as dysfunction, rarity, and cultural deviance to ...

The Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology brings together the latest research on psychopathology in childhood and adolescence, with an emphasis on empirical studies of the major childhood disorders ...

MEDICAL psychology has had a long and varied history. In its earliest stages it dealt with magical and pseudo-religious phenomena, which it took at their face value. Even within the last century it ...

THIS book appears in a thoroughly revised form. The lapse of only a few years necessitates much revision in an exposition of such a subject as abnormal psychology. But the author has done more than ...