Experimental approaches to psychopathology.
By: Edited by Mitchell L. Kietzman, Samuel Sutton [and] Joseph Zubin.
Contributors: Kietzman, Mitchell L., ed.; Sutton, Samuel, 1921-1986, ed.; Zubin, Joseph, 1900- ed.
Series: Personality and psychopathology, 15
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: Psychology, Pathological -- Congresses; Psychopathology
Description: Human experimental psychopathology, the scientific investigation of abnormal behavior by established laboratory and experimental techniques and procedures, is a new field whose contributors are mainly scattered throughout other areas of specialization, such as psychiatry, biometrics, neurophysiology, and psychology. This volume contains empirical and theoretical chapters both by active researchers in experimental psychopathology and by researchers in other fields relevant to experimental psychopathology. It is a significant step on the long and difficult road toward establishing an experimentally based psychopathology which will eventually provide (as physiology has done for much of medicine, and physics for much of engineering) a genuinely scientific basis for clinical practice. -- Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"Developed from a conference organized by the Biometrics Research Unit of the New York State Department of Mental Health."