Personality and psychopathology
Subtitle: building a clinical science : selected papers of Theodore Millon.
Publisher: Wiley; J. Wiley & Sons
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Personality disorders; Personality assessment; Personality Disorders -- collected works; Psychopathology -- collected works
Description: In Personality and Psychopathology, Millon provides the reader with a coordinated series of papers that illustrate his unprecedented model for building a unified science of personology and psychopathology. In this effort, he seeks to integrate previously disparate components into a clinical science. Rather than developing independently and being left to stand as largely unconnected functions, Millon argues that a truly mature clinical science will embody explicit: 1) theories, that is, explanatory and heuristic conceptual schemes that enable the development of a formal 2) nosology, a taxonomic classification of disorders that is devised logically from the theory and which permits the development of coordinated 3) instruments, tools that are empirically grounded and sufficiently sensitive quantitatively to enable the theory's hypothesis to be adequately investigated, and from which target areas can be specified for 4) interventions, strategies and tactics of therapy designed in accord with the theory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"A Wiley-Interscience publication."