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Most textbooks on abnormal psychology include short descriptions of actual clinical cases. However, those presentations are necessarily brief and too fragmented for students to gain a clear understanding of the unique complexities of a person's troubled life. Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oltmanns, Thomas F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2012]
Edition:9th ed.
Subjects:
Psychology, Pathological > Case studies.
Psychiatry > Case studies.
Mental Disorders > Case Reports.
Table of Contents:
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • Panic disorder with agoraphobia
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder: rape trauma
  • Hypertension in an African American man
  • Dissociative identity disorder: multiple personality
  • Major depressive disorder
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Somatization disorder
  • Schizophrenia: paranoid type
  • Psychotic disorder (NOS), substance dependence, and violence
  • Alcohol dependence
  • Sexual dysfunction: female orgasmic disorder and premature ejaculation
  • Paraphilas: exhibitionism and frotteurism
  • Gender identity disorder: transsexualism
  • Eating disorder: anorexia nervosa
  • Eating disorder: bulimia nervosa
  • Parasomnia: nightmare disorder and isolated sleep paralysis
  • Paranoid personality disorder
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Antisocial personality disorder: psychopathy
  • Autistic disorder
  • Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
  • Oppositional defiant disorder.