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Psychology, 5/e
Lester M. Sdorow, Arcadia University
Cheryl A. Rickabaugh, University of Redlands

Psychological Disorders

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 (11th 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 (2nd. 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.