198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1948, Mental Abnormality: Facts and Theories was written when great changes were taking place in the handling of mental disorders and in the teaching of the subject in medical schools. Knowledge of this progress reached the public in a scrappy and sometimes misleading form, and the author felt that people had as much right to know about it as about advances in the more... Read more
Preface 1. Historical Retrospect 2. Theories of Mental Disorder 3. Anxiety and Obsessions 4. Dissociation 5. The Psychopathology of Sex 6. Mental Defect 7. Psychoses 8. Lie Detectors 9. The Place of Psychopathology in Human Affairs. Some Definitions. Index.
Biography
Millais Culpin (1874–1952) was an English surgeon, psychologist and entomologist. He graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1905, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1907. He was one of the first doctors to suggest that ‘shell shock’ was an emotional disturbance, rather than something caused by a physical trauma, and in 1917 he became a neurological specialist to the Army.
