The Dictionary of Psychopathology - Softcover

Kellerman, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231146515 ISBN 13: 9780231146517

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, theoreticians, practitioners, and other allied professionals who together represent the entire arc of the mental health field must be versed in psychopathology, the study of mental and emotional phenomena, abnormal psychology, and specific symptoms and behaviors. Building a reference that speaks to all of these professions and subjects, Henry Kellerman assembles the first dictionary to focus exclusively on psychopathology, featuring more than two thousand entries (over fifteen hundred primary and more than five hundred subentries) on specific symptoms and disorders, general syndromes, facets of personality structure, and diagnosis. He also includes a sampling of benchmark contributions by theoreticians and researchers that cover the history of psychopathology. These contributions reflect those of a psychodynamic nature as well as cognitive and behavioral approaches, and represent the relatively new field of neuropsychoanalysis as well. This branch of neuroscience is concerned with the relation between the brain and the mind, specifically with reference to brain architecture and function. Monitored by a distinguished editorial board, the Dictionary of Psychopathology mostly adheres to the latest DSM nomenclature while also retaining useful residual diagnoses of previous DSM formulations, as well as diagnostic formulations outside of traditional nosologies. The aim of the Dictionary is to broadly contribute to the synthesis of psychopathology.

About this title

Synopsis:

Psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, theoreticians, practitioners, and other allied professionals who together represent the entire arc of the mental health field must be versed in psychopathology, the study of mental and emotional phenomena, abnormal psychology, and specific symptoms and behaviors. To this end, Henry Kellerman has assembled the first dictionary to focus exclusively on the subject of psychopathology, featuring more than two thousand entries (over fifteen hundred primary and more than five hundred subentries) on specific symptoms and disorders, general syndromes, facets of personality structure, and diagnosis as well as sampling benchmark contributions by theoreticians and researchers covering the history of psychopathology. These contributions include those of a psychodynamic nature as well as those that reflect the domain of cognitive and behavioral approaches. The relatively new field of neuropsychoanalysis is also represented. This branch of neuroscience is concerned with the relation between the brain and mind, specifically with reference to brain architecture and function.Monitored by a distinguished editorial board, The Dictionary of Psychopathology mostly adheres to the latest DSM nomenclature, yet Kellerman also retains useful residual diagnoses of previous DSM formulations.

Thus, The Dictionary of Psychopathology is constructed as a product that can broadly contribute to the synthesis of psychopathology.

About the Author:

Henry Kellerman has held faculty and clinical positions at several universities and hospitals spanning a fifty year career as clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. Among his more than twenty books and scores of papers in clinical and scientific journals are included his volume, The Psychoanalysis of Symptoms, and the two-volume coauthored treatise, Psychopathology and Differential Diagnosis. Dr. Kellerman is in private practice in New York City. He is the former editor of the Columbia University Press series, Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0231146515
• ISBN 13: 9780231146517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320