For More Information On Psychological Disorders

For General Works on Psychological Disorders

        Carson, R. C., Butcher, J. N., and Mineka, S. (2000). Abnormal psychology and modern life (11^th ed.). Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Longman.

        Weckowicz, T. E., and Liebel-Weckowicz, H. (1990). A history of great ideas in abnormal psychology. New York: Elsevier.

For More on the Insanity Defense

        Maeder, T. (1985). Crime and madness: The origins and evolution of the insanity defense. New York: Harper and Row.

        Steadman, H. J., McGreevy, M. A., Morrissey, J. P., Callahan, L. A., Robbins, P. C., and Cirincione, C. (1993). Before and after Hinckley: Evaluating insanity defense reform. New York: Guilford.

        Torrey, E. F. (1984). The roots of treason: Ezra Pound and the secrets of St. Elizabeth's. London: Sidgwick and Jackson.

For More on Viewpoints on Psychological Disorders

        Gaw, A. C. (Ed.). (1992). Culture, ethnicity, and mental illness. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

        Leibenluft, E. (Ed.). (1999). Gender differences in mood and anxiety disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

        Masling, J. M., and Bornstein, R. F. (Eds.). (1993). Psychoanalytic perspectives in psychopathology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

        Taylor, S. E. (1989). Positive illusions: Creative self-deception and the healthy mind. New York: Basic Books.

For More on Classification of Psychological Disorders

        American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders-IV. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

        Robins, L., and Regier, D. A. (Eds.). (1991). Psychiatric disorders in America. New York: Free Press.

        Szasz, T. S. (1984). The myth of mental illness. New York: Harper and Row.

For More on Anxiety Disorders

        Craske, M. G. (1999). Anxiety disorders: Psychological approaches to theory and treatment. Boulder, CO: Westview.

        Dumont, R. (1996). The sky is falling: Understanding and coping with phobias, panic, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.New York: W. W. Norton.

        Friedman, S., Brice-Baker, J., and Diamond, K. (1997). Cultural issues in the treatment of anxiety. New York: Guilford.

        Gray, J. A., and McNaughton, N. (2000). Neuropsychology of anxiety. New York: Oxford University Press.

        Marks, I. M. (1998). Fears, phobias, and rituals: Panic, anxiety, and their disorders. New York: Oxford University Press.

        Wegner, D. (1989). White bears and other unwanted thoughts. New York: Viking Penguin.

For More on Somatoform Disorders

        Baur, S. (1988). Hypochondria: Woeful imaginings. Berkeley: University of California Press.

        Sartorius, N., Asai, M., Janca, A., and Ono, Y. (Eds.). (1999). Somatoform disorders. New York: Springer-Verlag.

        Slavney, P. R. (1990). Perspectives on hysteria. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

For More on Dissociative Disorders

        Ross, C. A. (1996). Dissociative identity disorder (2^nd. Ed). New York: Wiley.

        Schreiber, F. (1974). Sybil. New York: Warner.

        Sizemore, C. C., and Pitillo, E. S. (1977). I'm Eve. New York: Jove/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

For More on Mood Disorders

        Gotlib, I. H., Kurtzman, H. S., and Blehar, M. C. (1999). The cognitive psychology of depression. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

        Jamison, K. R. (1996). Touched with fire: Manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament. New York: Simon and Schuster.

        Kleinman, A., and Good, B. (Eds.). (1985). Culture and depression: Studies in anthropology and cross-cultural psychiatry of affective disorders. Berkeley: University of California Press.

        Leenaars, A. A., Wenckstein, S., Kral, M. J., and Dyck, R. J. (Eds.). (1998). Suicide in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

        Lester, D. (Ed.). (1997). Making sense of suicide: An in-depth look at why people kill themselves. Philadelphia: Charles Press.

        Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (1990). Sex differences in depression. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

        Paykel. E. S. (Ed.). (1992). Handbook of affective disorders. New York: Guilford.

        Rosenthal, N. E. (1998). Winter blues: Seasonal affective disorder--What it is and how to overcome it. New York: Guilford.

        Styron, W. (1990). Darkness visible: A memoir of madness. New York: Random House.

        For More on Schizophrenia

        Greden, J. F., and Tandon, R. (1999). Negative schizophrenic symptoms: Pathophysiology and clinical implications. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association.

        Howells, J. G. (1998). The concept of schizophrenia: Historical perspectives. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

        Leff, J., and Vaughn, C. (1985). Expressed emotion in families: Its significance for mental illness. New York: Guilford.

        Rokeach, M. (1964/1981). The three Christs of Ypsilanti. New York: Columbia University Press.

        Tsuang, M. T., and Faraone, S. V. (1997). Schizophrenia: The facts. New York: Oxford University Press.

For More on Personality Disorders

        Alarcon, R. D., Vakkur, M., and Foulks, E. F. (1998). Personality disorders and culture. New York: Wiley.

        Bornstein, R. F. (1993). The dependent personality. New York: Guilford.

        Cauwels, J. M. (1992). Imbroglio: Rising to the challenges of borderline personality disorder. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Black, D. W., and Larson, C. L. (1999). Bad boys, bad men: Confronting antisocial personality disorder. New York: Oxford University Press.

        Horowitz, M. J. (1991). Hysterical personality style and the histrionic personality disorder. Northvale, NJ: Aronson.

        Kantor, M. (1993). Distancing: A guide to avoidance and avoidant personality disorder. Westport, CT: Greenwood.

        Parsons, R. D., and Wicks, R. J. (Eds.). (1983). Passive-aggressiveness: Theory and practice. New York: Brunner/Mazel.

        Ronningstam, E. F. (Ed.). (1997). Disorders of narcissism. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press.

For More on Contributors to the Study of Psychological Disorders

        Burston, D. (1999). The wings of madness: the life and work of R. D. Laing. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

        Gay, P. (1988). Freud: A life for our time. New York: W. W. Norton.

        Hirschmuller, A. (1978). The life and work of Josef Breuer: Physiology and psychoanalysis. New York: New York University Press.

        Hoffman, E. (1988). The right to be human: A biography of Abraham Maslow. Los Angeles: Tarcher.

        Kirschenbaum, H. (1979). On becoming Carl Rogers. New York: Delacorte.

        Vatz, R. E., and Weinberg, L. S. (1982). (Eds.). Thomas Szasz: Primary values and major contentions. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus.