Edmund Smith Conklin

Revival

Principles of Abnormal Psychology (1928)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The literature since the first edition has been reviewed and material from it has been inserted, with particular emphasis on experimental contributions. Major additions are made in the sections on speech abnormalities, constitutional psychopathic inferiority, behavior effects of epidemic encephalitis, and psychotherapy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138564619
• ISBN-10: 1138564613
• Artikelnr.: 56893997

Autorenporträt

Edmund Smith Conklin (19 April 1884 - 6 October 1942) was an American author and psychologist. He was born in New Britain, Connecticut on April 19, 1884. He attended Clark University when G. Stanley Hall was a leading teacher. He graduated in psychology from Springfield college and Clark University. He was a professor and chairman of the department of psychology at the University of Indiana. He served at various times as visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Syracuse University. He wrote books on abnormal psychology, anomalistic psychology and the psychology of religion. He died in a hospital in Bloomington on October 6, 1942.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction: Some Principles of Psychology Normal and Abnormal II.
Sensory Abnormalities, Illusions and Hallucinations III. Memory
Abnormalities IV. Distorted Thinking (Paranoia) V. Psychoses VI. The
Psychoneuroses: Psychasthenia Neurasthenia, Compulsion Neurosis, Anxiety
Neurosis VII. The Psychoneuroses (continued): Hysteria VIII. "Shell Shock"
IX. Multiple Personality X. Discovering the Complex XI. The Results of
Analysis XII. Hypnotism and Suggestibility XIII. Spiritistic Phenomena XIV.
Sleep and its Abnormalities XV. Dreams XVI. Mental Effects of Drugs XVII.
The Abnormality Endowed: Feeble-Mindedness and Genius XVIII. The Historical
and Biographical Background