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This reader exposes students studying abnormal psychology to a broad sampling of the major questions and debates confronting today's psychopathology researchers. It contains 40 recent articles, compiled from popular and academic sources, that explore ongoing issues and controversies regarding mental illness and its treatment. Among the topics addressed in this book are gender differences in depression, the biological bases of schizophrenia, the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder, the controversy regarding "recovered memories" of child abuse, and the use of Prozac and similar medications to treat mood disturbances.

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• I Mood and Anxiety Disorders
• What Good is Feeling Bad?
• The Evolutionary Benefits of Psychic Pain
• Manic-Depressive Illness and Creativity
• Women and Depression
• Seasonal Affective Disorders: The Effects of Light on Human Behavior
• Suicide Check: Advances in Biopsychiatry May Lead to Lab Tests for Self-Destructive Behavior and Other Mental Disorders
• Phobias: Is There a Way Out?
• Current Perspectives on Panic and Panic Disorder
• Researching PTSD: The Biology of Fear
• Obsessed
• II Other Major Mental Disorders: Schizophrenia, Eating Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, and Childhood Disorders
• Understanding the Inner Voices
• Divided Selves
• Imminent Danger
• Chemistry & Craving
• The Pressure to Lose: Anorexia and Other Eating Disorders are Gnawing Away at Young Men
• The Mind of a Hypochondriac
• Deceptive Appearances: Imagined Physical Defects Take an Ugly Personal Toll
• Hotheads and Heart Attacks
• Autism
• Life in Overdrive
• 3 Personality Disorders, Criminality, and Substance Abuse Disorders
• Piecing Together Personality: Psychological Research Presents a Challenge to Psychiatric Diagnosis
• Predators: The Disturbing World of Psychopaths Among Us
• Seeking the Criminal Element
• The Rage of the Innocents
• Prisoners of Pleasure?
• 4 Controversial Diagnoses; Gender- and Culture-Bound Syndromes
• Now We are One, Two, or Three...
• Have Periods, Will Seek Therapy
• The Illusion of Science in Psychiatry
• Listening to Culture: Psychiatry Takes a Leaf from Anthropology
• Culture-Bound Syndromes as Fakery
• 5 Psychotherapies; Novel or Controversial Psychological Interventions
• Mental Health: Does Therapy Help?
• Consumer Reports
• The Overselling of Therapy
• Remembering Dangerously
• Back in the High Life: A Controlled Study by Emory and Georgia Tech Researchers Tests Virtual Reality Technology in Treating
• Acrophobia
• Back From the Drink
• EMDR Treatment: Less Than Meets the Eye?
• Facilitated Communication: Mental Miracle or Sleight of Hand?
• 6 Somatic Therapies
• Design Your Own Personality
• Prescriptions for Happiness?
• How to Heal the Body's Craving
• Shock Therapy Returns