Psychology

This undergraduates textbook covers applied psychology, abnormal behaviour or psychology for medical students, and anxiety and phobias.

This work covers diverse subject areas within psychology and related terms from anthropology, computer programming, medicine, molecular and population biology, pharmacology, physics, social services, statistics. In addition to definitions, this work contains about 100 brief biographical entries and 100 organizational entries.

This book is a comprehensive attempt to explain why, in spite of near-miraculous advances in medication and treatment, persons with mental illness fare worse than almost any other disadvantaged group in the labor market. As a researcher of economics and disability and the mother of a son with schizophrenia, the author speaks from both professional and personal experience.

Four volume set. The entries on some 1,200 topics encompass concepts, techniques, and biographical profiles relevant to ten areas of psychology: applied, clinical, cognitive, developmental, educational, measurement, personality, physiological, social, and history/theory.

The authors explain abnormal psychology through the integrative approach, which emphasizes that psychological disorders are rooted in the interaction among multiple factors: biological, psychological, cultural, social and familial.

Presents a collection of essays with different viewpoints on mental illness.

The Oxford Companion to the Mind,edited by Richard L. Gregory, is a classic. Published in 1987, to huge acclaim, it immediately took its place as the indispensable guide to the mysteries - and idiosyncracies - of the human mind.

The author of Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life offers insight into how to resolve disparities between one's values and one's actual actions, introducing the Jungian concept of a divided soul while explaining how readers can become more self-aware by accepting the less favorable elements of their personalities.