Dictionary Of Psychopathology

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Psychologists psychiatrists social workers psychiatric nursestheoreticians practitioners and other allied professionals who togetherrepresent the entire arc of the mental health field must be versed inpsychopathology the study of mental and emotional phenomena abnormalpsychology and specific symptoms and behaviors. To this end Henry Kellermanhas assembled the first dictionary to focus exclusively on the subject ofpsychopathology featuring more than two thousand entries over fifteen hundredprimary and more than five hundred subentries on specific symptoms anddisorders general syndromes facets of personality structure and diagnosis aswell as sampling benchmark contributions by theoreticians and researcherscovering the history of psychopathology. These contributions include those of apsychodynamic nature as well as those that reflect the domain of cognitive andbehavioral approaches. The relatively new field of neuropsychoanalysis is alsorepresented. This branch of neuroscience is concerned with the relation betweenthe brain and mind specifically with reference to brain architecture andfunction. Monitored by a distinguished editorial board The Dictionary ofPsychopathology mostly adheres to the latest DSM nomenclature yet Kellermanalso retains useful residual diagnoses of previous DSM formulations. Thus TheDictionary of Psychopathology is constructed as a product that can broadlycontribute to the synthesis of psychopathology. «