Title: Popular psychology : an encyclopedia /
Authors: Cordón, Luis A.
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Mental Disorders; Psychology; Psychology Encyclopedias
Abstract: The 120 or so entries in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including, for example, Alien abduction, Birth order, Insanity defense, Mad cow disease, Multiple personality disorder, Parenting styles, and Satanic ritual abuse. Also represented are individuals such as Carl Jung and Dr. Phil. The goal is "to try to counteract the tide of misleading information about the field of psychology with a concise guide to some things that the well-informed student of psychology and the interested general public ought to know."
Contents: Acupuncture -- Addiction -- Alien abduction -- Alzheimer's Disease -- American Psychological Association (APA) -- Amnesia -- Aphasia -- Aromatherapy -- Asperger's Disease -- Astrology -- Attachment -- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder -- Autism -- "Big Five" personality factors -- Bilingualism -- Biofeedback -- Birth order -- Body type -- Brain -- Brain imaging techniques -- Brainwashing -- Chemical imbalance -- Chomsky, Noam (1928- ) -- Chopra, Deepak (1947- ) -- Cognitive behavior therapy -- Cognitive dissonance -- Cold reading -- Correlation -- Craniosacral therapy -- Depressants -- Dianetics/Scientology -- Diffusion of responsibility -- Down Syndrome -- DSM-IV -- Education of All Handicapped Children Act (P.L. 94-142) -- Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) -- Emotional intelligence -- Epilepsy -- Erikson, Erik (1902-1994) -- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) -- Facilitated Communication (FC) -- Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) -- Galton, Francis (1822-1911) --^