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• Abnormal Psychology
• Hysteria

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Abnormal Psychology: Its Concepts and Theories

by H. L. Hollingworth. 590 pgs.

Contributors:

   H. L. Hollingworth

Publisher:

   Ronald Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1930

Subjects:

Psychology, Pathological

	CONTENTS
	CHAPTER 1 MEANING AND USE OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY The meaning of abnormal psychology. Meanings of normal and abnormal. What are mental processes? Usefulness of abnormal psychology.	3
	CHAPTER 2 CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF MENTAL ABNORMALITY Antiquity of mental disorder. Spiritistic conceptions. Early materialistic conceptions. The "Dark Ages." The Renaissance. The Anatomy Movement and the Reformation.	22
	CHAPTER 3 THE MODERN PERIOD Treatment of mental defectives. The psychology of Herbart. The influence of Kraepelin. The Kraepelinian classification. A concrete illustration. Reactions against experimental psychopathology.	45
	CHAPTER 4 CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINTS--THE NEURO-ANATOMICAL The concept of causation. The neuro-anatomical conception. A case of tabes dorsalis. A case of cerebellar ataxia. Dissociated sensory impairment. Certain limitations--paresis. Dementia paralytica. Cases of visual anesthesia. Fictional neuroanatomy.	69
	CHAPTER 5 CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINTS--THE PHYSIOLOGICAL Mental abnormalities of old age. A case of senile dementia. Mental abnormalities and endocrinology. Other endocrine influences. Infection and mental disorders.	92
	CHAPTER 6 CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINTS--THE PSYCHOLOGICAL Mental anorexia. The genesis of paranoia. Habit distortions. The concept of dissociation. Concepts of regression and fixation. Modes of regression. The general concept of development.	107
	CHAPTER 7 CONTEMPORARY VIEWPOINTS--THE PSYCHOANALOGICAL Independent activity of an unconscious emotion. "Unconscious symbolism." Phobias arising from "the Oedipus complex." Abnormalities explained through dream analysis. Repression as the cause of amnesia. Conclusions.	136
	CHAPTER 8 THE CONCEPT OF FEEBLEMINDEDNESS Medical conceptions. The concept of arrested development. Limitations of developmental pace. Classification and identification. Psychometric determinations. Cases of mental deficiency. Constitutional quality of the organism. Conclusions.	157
	CHAPTER 9 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FEEBLE MIND Anthropometric measurements. Relative deficit and normal variability. Physical, perceptual, and symbolic activities. Relative deficiency in school subjects. Merrill's data. Feebleness in higher regions of the scale. Comparison of gifted, normal, and defective. The drawing ability of mental defectives. The nature of mind again considered. Instincts and emotions of the feeble mind. An experimental study of emotions. Anger. Affection. Fear. Redintegrative interpretation of feeblemindedness. Related topics.	178
	CHAPTER 10 PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS Organic and functional distinctions. General differentiating signs. Special differentiating criteria. Conditions caused by or constituting emotional stress. Habit residuals--primary and secondary. Reflex disorders.	214
	CHAPTER 11 PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS (Con.) Symptoms rendered vivid by attention. Cherished defense symptoms. Compensatory reactions. Symptoms resulting from dissociation. Symptoms as redintegrated reactions.	233
	CHAPTER 12 CONCEPTIONS OF THE PSYCHONEUROSES--JANET Varieties of neurotic symptoms. Anesthesias. Amnesias. Abulias. Motor disturbances. Subconscious acts. Fixed ideas. Attacks. Somnambulism. Deliriums. A case described by Janet.	257
	CHAPTER 13 TYPICAL PSYCHONEUROTIC PICTURES Cases A and B, hysteria. Case C, hysteria or neurasthenia. Case D, traumatic hysteria. Cases E and F, psychasthenia. Case G, neurasthenia. Case H, neurasthenia and mental deficiency.	277
	CHAPTER 14 CONCEPTIONS OF THE PSYCHONEUROSES--BABINSKI, HURST, ROSANOFF Pithiatism and suggestion. Inadequacy of Babinski's account. The rôle of attention. Value of Hurst's observations. Character defect and simulation. Critical considerations.	288
	CHAPTER 15 HERBARTIAN CONCEPTIONS OF THE NEUROSES--FREUD, ADLER, RIVERS The Freudian fictions. A simpler account of primitive magic. Conversion hysteria. The concept of ambivalence. Neuroses as substitutive danger reactions. Forms of the neurosis. A test of the biological theory. Mastery motives and guiding fictions. The influence of inferiority.	311
	CHAPTER 16 ASSOCIATION NEUROSES AND CONDITIONED REACTIONS The "law of association." Association neuroses. The unconscious and the subconscious. The concept of neurograms. Conditioned reaction experiments. The concept of conditioning in abnormal psychology. Inaccuracy of the concept of conditioning.	339
	CHAPTER 17 OBJECTIVE STUDIES OF THE NEUROTIC CONSTITUTION The neuropathic constitution. Intelligence and the war-neuroses. Relation of intelligence to symptoms. Studies of civilian neurotics. Distribution of intelligence in neurotics. Family and personal history of neurotics. Experimental measurement of motivation. Summary of results.	364
	CHAPTER 18 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE NEUROSIS Fifteen significant observations. Learning and sagacity. Emotionality of the neurotic. Levels of redintegrative response. Therapeutic value of cortical redintegration. Intelligence and the symptom picture. The influence of motivation. The mental make-up of the neurotic.	391
	CHAPTER 19 FAMILIAR PSYCHONEUROSES--STAGE-FRIGHT AND DREAM Phenomena of stage-fright. Experiments on the effect of the audience. The attitude of the performer. Stage-fright as an instinctive reaction. Stage-fright as conflict neurosis. Stagefright as a redintegrated response. The cure of stage-fright. The audience and the drug. Phenomena of drowsiness. Shift of imagery modes. Substitution and symbolism. Exaggeration. Decreased sagacity. Anesthesia, catalepsy, and amnesia. Electivity and differential thresholds. The dream and the neurosis.	409
	CHAPTER 20 PSYCHOLOGY OF STUTTERING AND STAMMERING Antiquity and frequency of stuttering. Anatomical theories. Physiological explanations: use of the tongue; breathing; vasomotor changes; endocrine disturbance; metabolism; handedness. Psychoanalytic theories. Adler's inferiority theory. An objective study of stutterers. Vocabulary taboo. Auditory amnesia. Visual central asthenia. Attention and distraction. Cumulative conditioning. Imitation and heredity. Prognosis. Mental hygiene.	432
	CHAPTER 21 CONCEPTIONS OF APHASIA AND ASYMBOLIA A case of aphasia. Varieties of aphasia. The concept of speech areas. Wernicke's analysis. The multiplication of centers. Apraxia. Perception and imagery centers. Tables and brain diagrams. Acquired and congenital word-blindness. The concept of linguistic intelligence. Disorders of symbolism. Head's classifications. Verbal aphasia. Syntactical aphasia. Nominal aphasia. Semantic aphasia. Current status of aphasia. Aphasia and the problem of meaning. Conflict and regression applied to aphasia.	455
	CHAPTER 22 PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF EPILEPSY Descriptions of epilepsy. Typical cases. Varieties of epilepsy. The epileptic personality. The aurae. Epileptic equivalents. Immediate and deferred after-effects. Interpretations of epilepsy. The epileptoid reaction.	481
	CHAPTER 23 CONSTITUTIONAL PSYCHOPATHIC STATES Psychopathic personalities. Characteristics of delinquents. Inadequate personality. Emotional instability. Borderline psychosis. A doubtful borderline case. Delinquency--borderline intelligence.	494
	CHAPTER 24 PERSONALITY TYPES AND THE FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOSES Importance of functional psychoses. Dementia praecox (schizophrenia). Manic-depressive psychosis. Functional psychoses and the psychoneuroses. Doctrines of personality types. The types of Rosanoff. Introvert and extrovert types. Cycloids and schizoids. McDougall's analysis. The development of selfregard. Constitution and catastrophe.	507
	CHAPTER 25 MENTAL DISORDER AND THE EFFECT OF DRUGS The chief problems. Some of the determinants of drug effects. Various physiological considerations. Important psychological determinants: knowledge of the drug; sensory stimulation; excitement and interest; abstinence phenomena; the influence of practice; standardization of processes; influence of previous work. The law of dissolution. Certain general propositions. Mental competence as a determinant. Native stability and susceptibility. Significance of drug experiments.	543
	BIBLIOGRAPHY	573
	AUTHOR INDEX	581
	SUBJECT INDEX	585

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