Modern Psychopathology: A Biosocial Approach to Maladaptive Learning and Functioning

Abstract

Psychiatrists must occasionally feel some discomfort over the theoretical and therapeutic encroachments of psychologists in recent years. The distress may be increased by this comprehensive but brief presentation of psychopathology as an integrated whole. The author is head of the psychology department at Lehigh University. This book is an excellent guide for the beginner in the field as well as for the intelligent lay reader. It may well have an even greater value in dispelling bias, for when psychotherapists search herein for their own procedures they will find them, but in addition will be exposed to unambiguous information on many other points of view. From the beginning, Dr. Millon makes it clear that he intends to slight no school of thought, nor does he. If he cherishes a secret commitment to any certain model (other than perhaps so-called "field theory") I, for one, could not find it. His criticisms are

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