Abnormal Psychology Across the Ages 3 volumes
- Author : Thomas G. Plante Ph.D.
- Publisher : ABC-CLIO
- Release Date : 2013-06-25
- Genre: Psychology
- Pages : 835
- ISBN 10 : 9780313398377
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Abnormal Psychology Across the Ages 3 volumes Excerpt :
In these three volumes, a team of scholars provides a thoughtful history of abnormal psychology, demonstrating how concepts regarding disordered mental states, their causes, and their treatments developed and evolved across the ages. • Explains historic views on disorders, including causes and treatments such as the belief that depression in women stemmed from "a wandering uterus," homosexuality being categorized a mental disorder, and the "treatment" of various disorders via blood-letting or lobotomy • Explains the advent of psychology/psychiatry/psychologists/psychiatrists; the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the fields' bible of mental disorders and treatments; the evolution of the field; and the political controversies it has faced since its inception • Examines controversial topics across time, ranging from human rights of the mentally disordered to multicultural views on what does and does not constitute a disorder