Psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatric nurses,
theoreticians, practitioners, and other allied professionals who
together represent the entire arc of the mental health field must be
versed in psychopathology, the study of mental and emotional phenomena,
abnormal psychology, and specific symptoms and behaviors.
Building a reference that speaks to all of these professions and
subjects, Henry Kellerman assembles the first dictionary to focus
exclusively on psychopathology, featuring more than two thousand entries
(over fifteen hundred primary and more than five hundred subentries) on
specific symptoms and disorders, general syndromes, facets of
personality structure, and diagnosis. He also includes a sampling of
benchmark contributions by theoreticians and researchers that cover the
history of psychopathology. These contributions reflect those of a
psychodynamic nature as well as cognitive and behavioral approaches, and
represent the relatively new field of neuropsychoanalysis as well. This
branch of neuroscience is concerned with the relation between the brain
and the mind, specifically with reference to brain architecture and
function.
Monitored by a distinguished editorial board, the Dictionary of
Psychopathology mostly adheres to the latest DSM nomenclature while
also retaining useful residual diagnoses of previous DSM formulations,
as well as diagnostic formulations outside of traditional nosologies.
The aim of the Dictionary is to broadly contribute to the synthesis of
psychopathology.
