Abnormal Psychology across the Ages: [3 volumes]

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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. Compiling current thought from some of the best minds in the field, Abnormal Psychology across the Ages provides essays that reflect on multiple dimensions of abnormal behavior. These experts present biological, psychological, social, cultural, and supernatural perspectives throughout human history on a range of disorders, as well as the global influences on scientific thinking. A fascinating read for anyone in the field of abnormal psychology, from undergraduate students to clinicians, counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists, this three-volume work addresses questions such as: What is "abnormal" psychology and thinking What are the causes, how have we treated it, and how do we treat it now And how does the culture of the times affect what we perceive as "abnormality"

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[I]nvites the reader to consider recurring themes and trends in the conceptualization of abnormal behavior from ancient to modern times. . . . Abnormal Psychology Across the Ages is an important work that presents a well-integrated, tersely presented, topical, panoramic, and interdisciplinary discussion of key historical, contemporary, biological, behavioral, physical, and philosophical trends that lead us back to examine our beliefs about what constitutes adaptive as well as maladaptive behavior. * PsycCRITIQUES *
This reference set will be useful to high school or undergraduate students writing about mental illness in history and in the present. . . . Overall, though, the chapters seem well-written and well-researched, with reference lists. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates; general readers. * Choice *

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Thomas G. Plante, PhD, ABPP, is the Augustin Cardinal Bea, S.J. University Professor and professor of psychology at Santa Clara University, and adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.