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Title

Vulnerability to psychopathology : a biosocial model / Marvin Zuckerman.

Author

Zuckerman, Marvin

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c1999.

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Additional Authors

American Psychological Association

Description

xv, 535 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

This book proposes that psychopathology is best understood as the interaction between 3 factors: biology-genetics, personality, and stressful events. These, in combination with social and familial factors, create vulnerability in the individual. Using this framework, the author synthesizes for his readers the most current research available on each of the major disorders including anxiety, mood, antisocial personality, substance abuse, pathological gambling, and schizophrenic disorders. The author's intent is to provide teachers, graduates students, clinicians, researchers, and theorists with an up-to-date coursebook, a single source of information on the major psychological disorders. The volume covers their history, diagnosis, prevalence, prognosis, course, outcome,comorbidity, demographic characteristics, genetics, biochemistry, and neurophysiology. An important finding is that while anxiety, depression, and antisocial personality represent extremes of normal personality dimensions, schizotypic personality and schizophrenic disorder are a taxon, not continuous with normal dimensions of personality. This comprehensive and authoritative book will be a valuable new resource.

Subject

• Disease Susceptibility
• Risk Factors
• Mental Disorders > etiology
• Psychology, Pathological
• Mental illness > Risk factors
• Mental illness > Etiology
• Psychopathology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 431-505) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Diathesis-stress models -- Diagnosis -- Anxiety disorders -- Mood disorders -- Antisocial personality disorder --Substance abuse and dependence and pathological gambling disorders -- Schizophrenia -- Prognosis for the science of psychopathology.

ISBN

1557985669

LCCN

^^^98033296^

OCLC

40076537

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library