Popular Psychology
Subtitle: An Encyclopedia
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780313324574
Subjects: Popular psychology; Popular Culture - General; Reference; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Psychology; Encyclopedias
Description: 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."