Adult Psychopathology Case Studies

In this student text, 26 American and Canadian practitioners and academics contribute case studies on the nature of adult psychological disorders, addressing the symptoms they produce and the adjustment problems they cause, how they are experienced by patients and the kinds of experiences that give rise to them, how they affect the lives of disturbed people and those around them, and methods of identifying and treating them. An introductory chapter on issues in the definition and classification of psychological abnormality is followed by 18 chapters on the most commonly occurring forms of psychopathology, including adjustment, personality, anxiety and somatoform, identity, habit, and serious or psychotic disorders. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)