Not So Abnormal Psychology A Pragmatic View of Mental Illness,9781433820212

Not So Abnormal Psychology A Pragmatic View of Mental Illness

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781433820212
ISBN10: 1433820218
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2015-06-15
Publisher(s): American Psychological Association
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Summary

In this warm and deeply personal text, author Ronald B. Miller offers students a different approach to conceptualizing and treating mental illness. Miller critically examines reigning orthodoxies, such as our tendency to pathologize psychological difficulties and to downplay or ignore subjective experiences of human suffering. 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. This text offers a pragmatic and compassionate approach that can revolutionize readers’ and students' 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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