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Popular psychology : an encyclopedia /

The 120 or so entries in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including, for example, Alien abduction, Birth order, Insanity defense, Mad cow disease, Multiple personality disorder, Parenting styles, and Satanic ritual abuse. Also represented are individuals such as Carl Jung and Dr. Phil. The...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cordón, Luis A.
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Series:Psychological experiments online
Subjects:
Psychology > Encyclopedias.
Psychology.
Mental illness.
Psychology
Mental Disorders
Psychologie > Encyclopédies.
Psychologie.
Maladies mentales.
psychology.
mental disorders.
Mental illness
Psychologie
Electronic books.
Encyclopedia
Popular Work
encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The 120 or so entries in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including, for example, Alien abduction, Birth order, Insanity defense, Mad cow disease, Multiple personality disorder, Parenting styles, and Satanic ritual abuse. Also represented are individuals such as Carl Jung and Dr. Phil. The goal is "to try to counteract the tide of misleading information about the field of psychology with a concise guide to some things that the well-informed student of psychology and the interested general public ought to know."
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267) and index.
ISBN:9781429475020
1429475021
0313062765
9780313062766
0313324573
9780313324574