Format:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 622 p.)
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illus
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23 cm
Content:
The present book effectively bridges the gap between the fields of psychology and psychiatry, which deal with normal and abnormal human behavior. As the title of the book implies, this is a presentation of the neuroses and psychoses from a consistently biosocial point of view. It follows a prediction made five years ago that psychopathology--or behavior pathology as the author proposes to call it--will shift progressively in emphasis, from speculations about a psyche in a somatic container, to the study of the operations of human organisms in a social field. The author deals with the problems of various behavior disorders in the manner of a modern objectively trained scientist. In the pages of this book the reader will find no trace of hypotheses which banish thinking, imagination, dreams, and motives from the naturalistic and scientific world in order to locate them in a vague cloudland of a so-called conscious or unconscious psyche. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved)
Note:
Electronic reproduction; Washington, D.C; American Psychological Association; 2005; Available via the World Wide Web; Access limited by licensing agreement; s2005 dcunns
Language:
English
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