Dictionary of Psychopathology

Psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatric nurses,theoreticians, practitioners, and other allied professionals who together representthe entire arc of the mental health field must be versed in psychopathology, thestudy of mental and emotional phenomena, abnormal psychology, and specific symptomsand behaviors.Building a reference that speaks to all of theseprofessions and subjects, Henry Kellerman assembles the first dictionary to focusexclusively on psychopathology, featuring more than two thousand entries (overfifteen hundred primary and more than five hundred subentries) on specific symptomsand disorders, general syndromes, facets of personality structure, and diagnosis. Healso includes a sampling of benchmark contributions by theoreticians and researchersthat cover the history of psychopathology. These contributions reflect those of apsychodynamic nature as well as cognitive and behavioral approaches, and representthe relatively new field of neuropsychoanalysis as well. This branch of neuroscienceis concerned with the relation between the brain and the mind, specifically withreference to brain architecture and function.Monitored by adistinguished editorial board, the Dictionary ofPsychopathology mostly adheres to the latest DSM nomenclature while alsoretaining useful residual diagnoses of previous DSM formulations, as well asdiagnostic formulations outside of traditional nosologies. The aim of the Dictionaryis to broadly contribute to the synthesis of psychopathology.