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Robert W. White
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LIST PRICE: $69.95
MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $69.95
622 pages
ITEM #: 4320001
ISBN: 1-59147-486-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-59147-486-9
PUBLICATION DATE: 1948
EDITION: Softcover
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The author's intent is to write about abnormal people in a way that will be valuable and interesting to students new to the subject. A first course in abnormal psychology is not intended to train specialists. Its goal is more general: it should provide the student with the opportunity to whet his interest, expand his horizons, register a certain body of new facts, and relate this to the rest of his knowledge about mankind.
The author aims to present the subject in such a way as to emphasize its usefulness to all students of human nature. Two introductory chapters are provided: one historical and the other clinical. This reflects the author's desire to set the subject-matter in a broad perspective and at the same time to anchor it in concrete fact.
Next comes a block of six chapters designed to set forth the topics of maladjustment and neurosis. The two chapters on psychotherapy complete the more purely psychological or developmental part of the work. In the final chapter the problem of disordered personalities is allowed to expand to its full social dimensions. Treatment, care, and prevention call for social effort and social organization. The author has sought to show some of the lines, both professional and nonprofessional, along which this effort can be expended.
This title will be printed on demand by the American Psychological Association (APA) from APA’s PsycBOOKS® database and may not be an exact duplicate of the work in its original printed form. All sales final; no returns accepted.
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