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9781433820212

Not So Abnormal Psychology A Pragmatic View of Mental Illness

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    9781433820212

  • ISBN10:

    1433820218

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2015-06-15
  • Publisher: American Psychological Association

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This text offers a pragmatic and compassionate approach that can revolutionize readers’ understanding of abnormal psychology.

Each year, tens of thousands of students across the country enroll in abnormal psychology courses. The majority of these students are taught that mental illnesses are genetically-determined malfunctions in the brain, that the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 is the primary means of diagnosis and assessment, and that psychotropic medications and cognitive-behavioral interventions are the only scientifically appropriate tools for symptom management.

In this warm and deeply personal text, author Ronald B. Miller offers students a different approach.  Starting with his own professional and personal search for meaning as a young scholar, Miller guides readers through a historical tour of alternative conceptualizations and treatments for psychological problems.  Across a comprehensive range of mental illnesses, including developmental disorders, anxiety, depression, personality disorders and schizophrenia, he reviews theoretical bases, methods of diagnosis and assessment, and treatments that have long produced successful outcomes, yet have too often been denigrated or ignored by proponents of the dominant approaches to mental health care.

A much-needed critical examination of reigning orthodoxies, such as our tendency to pathologize psychological difficulties and to downplay or ignore subjective experiences of human suffering, this text offers a pragmatic and compassionate approach that can revolutionize readers' understanding of abnormal psychology.
 

Author Biography

Ronald B. Miller, PhD, is professor of psychology at Saint Michael's College where he has also directed the master's program in clinical psychology for 30 years. He is the author of Facing Human Suffering: Psychology and Psychotherapy as Moral Engagement (2004), an associate editor for the Encyclopedia of Psychology (2000), and the editor of The Restoration of Dialogue: Readings in the Philosophy of Clinical Psychology (1992). He is a founding associate editor of the journal Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy and the former editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. A fellow of APA, Dr. Miller is currently the chair of the Vermont Board of Psychological Examiners.

Table of Contents

Preface

  1. The Personal Allure of a Behavioral Science
  2. The Social, Political, Historical, and Philosophical Context
  3. Theoretical Models of Abnormal Psychology: Approaches to Diagnosis, Assessment, and Development
  4. Psychological Suffering in Childhood
  5. Anxiety and Related Forms of Suffering
  6. Depression, Suicide, and Anorexia
  7. Personality Patterns That Engender Suffering
  8. Schizophrenia: Psychiatry's Poster Child

Afterword
References
Index
About the Author

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