THE ABNORMAL PERSONALITY, A TEXTBOOK

NEW YORK: THE RONALD PRESS COMPANY, 1948 DARK BLUE COVER, WORN PRINT ON SPINE, FORMER OWNER NAME FRONT INDICATING HARVARD UNIVERSITY. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GREAT DEAL OF INFORMATION. 16 CHAPTERS. HISTORICAL ORIGIN OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL INTRO, DEVELOPEMENT, INTEGRATION, FANTASY DREAMS HYPNOTIC, ANXIETY AND DEFENSE, NEUROTIC CONFLICT, NEUROSIS, PSYCHOTHERAPY, DILENQUENT BEHAVIOR, PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDERS, INJURIES AND BRAIN, PSYCHOSES AND PROBLEM OF SOCIETY. Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion, and thought, which could possibly be understood as a mental disorder. Robert W. White (19042001) was an American psychologist whose professional interests centered on the study of personality, both normal and abnormal. His book The Abnormal Personality, published in 1948, became the standard textbook on Abnormal Psychology. A historian in perspective, White did not focus entirely on abnormal psychology, but investigated the coping methods of normal people. Diverging from Freud whose thinking dominated psychology at the time, he emphasized that individuals were also driven by needs to be competent and effective in the world. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.