Human adaptation and its failures.
This book explores a set of related propositions that concern the field traditionally conceived as comprising psychiatric normality and psychopathology, considered here under the title "human adaptation and its failures." The term "human adaptation" refers to a person's resp...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York,
Academic Press,
1968.
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| Series: | Personality and psychopathology ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book explores a set of related propositions that concern the field traditionally conceived as comprising psychiatric normality and psychopathology, considered here under the title "human adaptation and its failures." The term "human adaptation" refers to a person's response to the complexities of living in society. The intent is to consider pathological reactions, that is, unsuccessful and potentially destructive responses to the human condition, in the context of more positive, adaptive forms of human living. A general theory of success and failure in human adaptation would provide a unitary framework within which both effective and ineffective participation in society can be understood. This book offers such a theory and presents the evidence that supports it. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 271 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781483230429 1483230422 |