ORIGINS OF MENTAL ILLNESS
Gordon Claridge
Malor Books, 1995
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
• Learn the scientific basis of the integration of genetics, temperament, and environment in the development of psychopathology
• Examine the strong connection between normal personality, psychological deviance and obvious mental illness
• Examine the genetically determined differences in brain organization which form the biological bedrock of personality
• Consider higher cognitive processes and social influences on behavior
• Understand Claridge’s definition of the word “disease”
• Investigate the various dimensions of temperament
• Learn the fundamental principle of the Pavlovian theory
• Learn how “biological preparedness” may explain why certain phobias are more common than others
• Learn how schizophrenia may play an adaptive role in normal human variation although the precise underlying form is more difficult to identify
• Recognize that normality and abnormality are not always distinguishable and that aberrations of mental health are occasionally found in high places of political power
Gordon Claridge is a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in Abnormal Psychology.
12 CE credits; 293 pages
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