(P/B) ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY

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I have been writing my textbooks, "Abnormal Psychology" and "Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology", for three decades-approximately half of my life. The current version, Abnormal Psychology, Eighth Edition, represents the fourteenth edition of one or the other of the textbooks. I feel deeply appreciative and privileged to have had the opportunity to help educate more than a half-million readers over the years.
This textbook journey truly has been a labor of love, but I also must admit that each edition has required enormous effort, ridiculous pressure, and too many sleepless nights to count. I mention these labors not only because I am a world-class whiner but also to help emphasize that I have approached each edition as a totally new undertaking rather than as a cut-and-paste update of past editions. My goal each time has been that the new edition is a fresh, comprehensive, and exciting presentation of the current state of this ever-changing field and that it includes state-of-the-art pedagogical techniques and insights.
This "new book" approach to each edition is, I believe, the key reason for the continuing success of the textbooks, and the current edition has been written in this same tradition.
In fact, the current edition includes even more changes than in any of the textbook's previous editions, for several reasons:
(1) The field of abnormal psychology has had a dramatic growth spurt over the past several years;
(2) the field of education has produced many new pedagogical tools;
(3) the world of publishing has developed new, striking ways of presenting material; and
(4) the world at large has changed dramatically, featuring a monumental rise in technology's impact on our lives, growing influence by the media, near unthinkable economic and political events, and a changing world order. Changes of this kind certainly should find their way into a book about the current state of human functioning, and I have worked hard to include them here in a stimulating way.
That said, I believe I have produced a new edition of "Abnormal Psychology" that will once again excite readers, open the field of abnormal psychology to them, and speak to them and their times. Throughout the book I have again sought to convey my passion for the field, and I have built on the generous feedback of my colleagues in this enterprise-the students and professors who have used this textbook over the years. At the risk of sounding ridiculously grandiose, let me describe what I believe to be special about this edition. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

1. Abnormal Psychology in Science and Clinical Practice
Abnormal Psychology: Past and Present
Research in Abnormal Psychology
Models of Abnormality
Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
2. Problems of Stress and Anxiety
Anxiety Disorders
Stress Disorders
Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders
3. Problems of Mood
Mood Disorders
Treatments for Mood Disorders
Suicide
4. Problems of Mind and Body
Eating Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders
Sexual Disorders and Gender Identity Disorder
5. Problems of Psychosis
Schizophrenia
Treatments for Schizophrenia and Other Severe Mental Disorders
6. Life-Span Problems
Personality Disorders
Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
Disorders of Aging and Cognition
Conclusion
7. Society and the Mental Health Profession