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Abnormal Psychology

Abnormal Psychology: Essential Cases and Readings

  • Chapter 1: Scope and Focus of Abnormal Psychology
    • US Department of Health and Human Services
      Mental health: A report of the Surgeon General - Executive Summary
    • William T. Carpenter, Jr.
      The challenge to psychiatry as society’s agent for mental illness treatment and research.
    • William M. Grove and Paul Meehl
      Comparative efficiency of informal (subjective, impressionistic) and formal (mechanical, algorithmic) prediction procedures: The clinical-statistical controversy.
    • Paul R. McHugh
      How psychiatry lost its way.
  • Chapter 2: Approaches to Psychopathology
    • Lisa Birk
      Dream warriors.
    • Nancy Andreasen
      Linking mind and brain in the study of mental illness: A project for a scientific psychopathology.
    • Arthur Kleinman and Alex Cohen
      Psychiatry’s global challenge.
    • Barry L. Beyerstein
      Why bogus therapies seem to work.
  • Chapter 3: Anxiety Disorders
    • Julie Cart
      Nightmare of the mind.
    • Judith L. Rapoport
      The biology of obsessions and compulsions.
    • Richard M. Glass
      Panic disorder - It’s real and it’s treatable.
    • Anonymous
      High anxiety.
  • Chapter 4: Somatoform and Dissociative disorders
    • John V. Campo and Barbara J. Negrini
      Case study: Negative reinforcement and behavioral management of conversion disorder.
    • E. Sobanski and M.H. Schmidt
      ’Everybody looks at my pubic bone’ - a case report of an adolescent patient with body dysmorphic disorder.
    • J.M. O’Dwyer and T. Friedman
      Multiple personality disorder following childbirth.
    • Irvin D. Yalom
      Therapeutic monogamy.
  • Chapter 5: Mood Disorders
    • Martha Manning
      From Undercurrents: A life beneath the surface.
    • Erica Goode
      Viewing depression as tool for survival.
    • Cheryl A. Green, M.D., Walter Knysz III, M.D., and Ming T. Tsuang, M.D.
      A homeless person with bipolar disorder and a history of serious self-mutilation.
    • Kay Jamison
      From Night falls fast: Understanding suicide.
  • Chapter 6: Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
    • Patricia M. Rodier
      The early origins of autism.
    • Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., Ami Klin, Pd.D., Robert T. Schultz, Ph.D., Emily Rubin, M.S., C.C.C.-S.L.P., and Richard Bronen, M.D.
      Clinical case conference: Asperger’s disorder.
    • Russell A. Barkley
      Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
    • Elizabeth B. Owens, M.S. and John Piacentini, Ph.D.
      Case study: Behavioral treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder in a boy with comorbid disruptive behavior problems.
  • Chapter 7: Personality Disorders
    • Paul L. Wachtel
      Cyclical processes in personality and psychopathology.
    • John Wheelis, M.D. and John G. Gunderson, M.D.
      A little cream and sugar: Psychotherapy with a borderline patient.
    • Adrian Raine, DPhil, Patricia Brennan, Ph.D., & Sarnoff A. Mednick, Ph.D.
      Birth complications combined with early maternal rejection at age 1 predispose to violent crime at age 18 years.
    • Brian Knutson, Ph.D., Owen M. Wolkowitz, M.D., Steve W. Cole, Ph.D., Theresa Chan, B.A., Elizabeth A. Moore, Ph.D., Ronald C. Johnson, Ph.D., Jan Terpstra, M.D., Rebecca A. Turner, Ph.D., and Victor I. Reus, M.D.
      Selective alteration of personality and social behavior by serotonergic intervention.
  • Chapter 8: Schizophrenia
    • Jackie Powell
      First person account: Paranoid schizophrenia - A daughter’s story.
    • Sylvia Nasar
      The lost years of a Nobel laureate
    • Courtney Harding, and James Zahniser
      Empirical correction of seven myths about schizophrenia with implications for treatment.
    • Tyrone D. Cannon
      On the nature and mechanisms of obstetric influences in schizophrenia: A review and synthesis of epidemiologic studies.
  • Chapter 9: Aging and Psychological Disorders
    • Charles Pierce
      Hard to forget: An Alzheimer’s story.
    • Jane E. Allen
      Focus on senior health: The burdens of love.
    • Peter H. St George-Hyslop
      Piecing together Alzheimer’s.
    • Marcia Barinaga
      Alzheimer’s treatments that work now.
  • Chapter 10: Eating Disorders
    • W. H. Kaye, K.L. Klump, G.K.W. Frank, and M. Strober
      Anorexia and bulimia nervosa.
    • Kim H. Hubbard, Anne-Marie O’Neill, and Christina Cheakalos
      Out of control.
    • Merrell Noden
      Dying to win.
    • Erica Goode
      Watching volunteers eat, psychiatrists seek clues to obesity.
  • Chapter 11: Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
    • Davis Mintz, M.D.
      Unusual case report: Nonpharmacologic effects of sildenafil
    • Michael A. Hiltzik
      Through the gender labyrinth: How a bright boy with a penchant for tinkering grew up to be one of the top women in her high-tech field
    • Robert U. Akeret
      From Tales from a traveling couch: A psychotherapist revisits his most memorable patients
    • Lauren Slater
      How do you cure a sex addict?
  • Chapter 12 Substance-Related Disorders
    • Alan I. Leshner
      Addiction is a brain disease, and it matters
    • Linda Carroll
      Genetic studies promise a path to better treatment of addictions
    • Jonathan Shedler and Jack Block
      Adolescent drug use and psychological health: A longitudinal inquiry
    • Maggie Farley
      Tribe sends kids away to dry out
  • Chapter 13 Treatment of Psychological Disorders
    • Adam Gopnik
      Man goes to see a doctor
    • John Colapinto
      Double fantasy
    • Larry E. Beutler
      David and Goliath: When empirical and clinical standards of practice meet
    • George Silberschatz and Jacqueline B. Persons
      How useful for psychotherapists are randomized controlled experiments?
  • Chapter 14: Social and Legal Aspects of Abnormal Psychology
    • Barry Siegel
      To warn, or not to warn
    • Fox Butterfield
      Experts say study confirms prison’s new role as mental hospital
    • Beth Shuster
      Slamming door on predators
    • Nada L. Stotland
      Clinical case conference: When religion collides with medicine
  • Chapter 15: Future Directions in Abnormal Psychology
    • Maggie Farley
      Mental illness by mandate
    • Ralph Swindle, Jr., Kenneth Heller, Bernice Pescosolido, and Saeko Kikuzawa
      Responses to nervous breakdowns in America over a 40-year period: Mental health policy implications
    • Wray Herbert
      Politics of biology: How the nature vs. nurture debate shapes public policy—and our view of ourselves
    • Huda Akil, Ph.D. and Stanley J. Watson, M.D., Ph.D.
      Science and the future of psychiatry

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