Table of Contents

PART I: ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY IN SCIENCE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE; Abnormal Psychology: Past and Present; Research in Abnormal Psychology; Models in Abnormality; Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment; PART II: PROBLEMS OF STRESS AND ANXIETY; Anxiety Disorders; Stress Disorders; Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders; PART III: PROBLEMS OF MOOD; Mood Disorders; Treatments for Mood Disorders; Suicide; PART IV: PROBLEMS OF MIND AND BODY; Eating Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Sexual Disorders and Gender Identity Disorder; PART V: PROBLEMS OF PSYCHOSIS; Schizophrenia; Treatments for Schizophrenia; PART VI: LIFE-SPAN PROBLEMS; Personailty Disorders; Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence; Disorders of Aging and Cognition; CONCLUSION; Law, Society, and the Mental Health Profession.

About the Author

RONALD J. COMER is Lecturer at Princeton University, USA.