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Abnormal Psychology by Kring, Ann M., Davison, Gerald C., Neale, John M., Johnson, (2006) Hardcover
Psychologists rely on Abnormal Psychology because it sets the standard for clarity, cutting-edge coverage, authoritative content, and clinical emphasis. It helps them fully integrate the details of all the disorders and distinguish between the more important concepts.
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October 12, 2022
For a textbook, this was easily the most accessible, relevant, thorough, up-to-date, well-written text I have read in a very long time. The authors do a phenomenal job at explaining some very difficult disorders with evidence, current examples, and strong research in a way that was very engaging.
May 29, 2015
Butcher'ın Anormal Psikolojisine göre güdük kalmış. İlgi çekici, çabuk okunuyor ama çoğu konuya değinmiyor. Genel bilgi edinmek için alabilirsiniz. Kapsamlı bilgi edinmek ve ders için kullanmak istiyorsanız Butcher'ın Anormal Psikoloji (Kaknüs Yayınları) öneririm.
April 28, 2016
Who ever read a textbook containing so many exclamation marks? Interesting material but surprisingly badly written.
May 28, 2021
one of my fav textbooks LOL tnx for helping me pass
December 29, 2013
This is a really good text book. I'm sure there will be DSM 5 edition coming out soon if it's not out now. If it weren't a hundred plus fuckin bucks I'd buy the most recent ed right now. :(
RANT ALERT! ------ I'd love to see high quality, open source text books come on to the market and drive these ridiculous prices down. The textbook pricing thing is over the top. I teach undergrads and I won't use a text that costs over 50.00. I know publishing is a for profit business. I understand that high quality textbooks are labor intensive and have a limited market. But we're in one of the worst economies in recent memory, and people under 25 are some of the hardest hit by our current circumstances. 150.00 for a text book, when people are already going into debt to get educated, who will probably emerge into a soft job market........ITS A RIP OFF!
Anyway. Great textbook. I'm loving it:)
RANT ALERT! ------ I'd love to see high quality, open source text books come on to the market and drive these ridiculous prices down. The textbook pricing thing is over the top. I teach undergrads and I won't use a text that costs over 50.00. I know publishing is a for profit business. I understand that high quality textbooks are labor intensive and have a limited market. But we're in one of the worst economies in recent memory, and people under 25 are some of the hardest hit by our current circumstances. 150.00 for a text book, when people are already going into debt to get educated, who will probably emerge into a soft job market........ITS A RIP OFF!
Anyway. Great textbook. I'm loving it:)
March 11, 2009
Ann Kring teaches as Berkeley and her lectures are available online. I have listened to her Clinical Psychology Course Podcasts - and this book is the textbook for her class.
I would have gone and read it - except no library around here has it and it costs soo much to buy!
Does anyone have a copy for sale, at a used-book rate?
I would have gone and read it - except no library around here has it and it costs soo much to buy!
Does anyone have a copy for sale, at a used-book rate?
July 30, 2012
I give this book four stars only because the simple fact , there are better texts out there on this subject.But for the average reader just interested in learning something new...its great.Very simple to follow and layout of the book is great as well, its very easy to just skip right to the part you wish to read. Would recommend picking this one up for the shelf at home.
August 19, 2015
Scritto in maniera chiara e comprensibile. Mi ha dato fastidio il fatto che gli editori italiani non si sono sforzati a controllare se gli aggiornamenti attesi per il DSM citati nel libro si fossero effettivamente avverati. Alcuni dati sono troppo vecchi, e alcune statistiche non quadrano logicamente (20% delle donne americane stuprate nel corso della vita??).
March 27, 2016
One of the best books on this topic.
May 7, 2020
At this point, a largely outdated textbook. However it'll always have a place on my shelves for being the book from which I first learnt about BPD.
May 11, 2023
the only textbook i read cover to cover. deserved.
February 1, 2022
Good: Nice layout and interesting details in the info boxes.
Bad:
1) Some sentences are so poorly written so that the point of the researches that it refers to is lost or easily misunderstood. F.ex. page 361 (2014 edition): ”Men are more likely to think about their secuality in terms of power than are women (Andersen, Cyranowski, Espindle, 1999).” I was left to think about what did this sentence mean. Surely it provokes thoughts and probably everyone who reads it quickly might make a vague idea of it based on his or her personal experiences and schemas. However, it’s a very vague sentence indeed. ”In terms of” and ”power” are extremely vague words and make me wonder if the writer knew what the original source meant with this either. Who has power over what or who? Power is always in relation of something to something but these are not defined here. ”In terms of” can also mean multiple different relations of things in my opinion. Nothing else is said on the page to explain this sentence so I actually learned zero and was just left with confusion and potentially even worse: misconceptions that tell more about my cultural background and experiences than about whatever the original reasearch has said. This is not the only sentence like this in the same chapter 12. (I admit, I left the book half unread and will try to find a more informative alternative, any suggestions?)
2) By now the book is very outdated. I bet there would be much newer research on many of the phenomena, like mental disorders, Alzheimer or sexuality that are still being actively studied on.
3) If you don’t operate in the US, you may be left wondering whether certain researches and results apply to other than American population. In many points, the book doesn’t clear out from which population the research results are based on, or to which cultures they can be applied to. Some of them apply only to the US while for example in my country Finland things are very different.
Bad:
1) Some sentences are so poorly written so that the point of the researches that it refers to is lost or easily misunderstood. F.ex. page 361 (2014 edition): ”Men are more likely to think about their secuality in terms of power than are women (Andersen, Cyranowski, Espindle, 1999).” I was left to think about what did this sentence mean. Surely it provokes thoughts and probably everyone who reads it quickly might make a vague idea of it based on his or her personal experiences and schemas. However, it’s a very vague sentence indeed. ”In terms of” and ”power” are extremely vague words and make me wonder if the writer knew what the original source meant with this either. Who has power over what or who? Power is always in relation of something to something but these are not defined here. ”In terms of” can also mean multiple different relations of things in my opinion. Nothing else is said on the page to explain this sentence so I actually learned zero and was just left with confusion and potentially even worse: misconceptions that tell more about my cultural background and experiences than about whatever the original reasearch has said. This is not the only sentence like this in the same chapter 12. (I admit, I left the book half unread and will try to find a more informative alternative, any suggestions?)
2) By now the book is very outdated. I bet there would be much newer research on many of the phenomena, like mental disorders, Alzheimer or sexuality that are still being actively studied on.
3) If you don’t operate in the US, you may be left wondering whether certain researches and results apply to other than American population. In many points, the book doesn’t clear out from which population the research results are based on, or to which cultures they can be applied to. Some of them apply only to the US while for example in my country Finland things are very different.
November 20, 2021
While this was for a class thus the three stars I actually thoroughly enjoyed this class and the textbook materials within it. Would definitely recommend for anyone who wants to learn more about psychology and all of the different things our brains are capable of.
June 2, 2021
Easy to read, easy to understand.
A splendid book!
A splendid book!
January 15, 2023
آسیب شناسی روانی یا روانشناسی مرضی
ترجمه ی فارسیش فوق العاده خط ریزی داره
پر از مثال و توضیح های خوب و چکیده برای هرقسمت و انتهای هرفصل👌
به پیشنهاد دکتر برجعلیِ عزیزم،احتمالا برگردم و کامل بخونمش
ترجمه ی فارسیش فوق العاده خط ریزی داره
پر از مثال و توضیح های خوب و چکیده برای هرقسمت و انتهای هرفصل👌
به پیشنهاد دکتر برجعلیِ عزیزم،احتمالا برگردم و کامل بخونمش
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June 1, 2024dnf after chapter 3 thanks for the service i lovehate you abpsych
November 30, 2025
Great information that was very helpful in my educational program.
August 17, 2022
Guess who “borrowed” my Goodreads account to rate books he has authored or to which he has contributed!
December 21, 2013
This was one of many books that I ended up reviewing for teaching psychology class for both graduate and undergraduate studies. I found this book a very good selection for undergraduate studies. It was well organized, very good overview and a solid tie into the DSMVI TR at the time. While there might have been some dated material, I expect that in text books and outside material nicely supplemented where it might have been lacking. Excellent study guides and summaries for professors! Very good book!
October 11, 2021
This is an excellent resource for referencing diagnosing and treating mental disorders. I read the online version and enjoyed the video learning exercises where we got to hear about individual cases of various disorders. The audio option was also appreciated. I listened to a ton of this textbook while walking, driving or working in the kitchen. The robotic voice was not my favorite but also could have been so much worse. This edition was also updated with the impacts of COVID-19 on psychopathology.
July 1, 2012
My most favorite class so far I went to school in Psychology departement. I think I love it because I have waited from the very first semester to get this class, so now when I get it I can't even bring myself to hate it (and the lecturers are so cool too!). So okay, enough about my class. I love Abnormal Psychology, and meaning to get my PhD in this area (maybe) but why, why, whyyyy this book so simple? *moan*
August 1, 2012
Too many statistics without conclusions. A basic intro to Abnormal Psychology that touches the surface of human actions (abnormal ones)...as my professor from Indiana Uiversity has stated, "We are a nation of over-diagnosed people (especially children) and psychologists/psychiatrists can't distingush between what's normal or abnormal anymore. We live in a sad state of affairs." It sums up my opinion as well.
February 25, 2024
I read the whole book cover to cover for a Psychopathology class for my graduate degree. This books provides a helpful overview of DSM-5-TR diagnoses. I found it to be less engaging than the textbook used for my undergraduate abnormal psychology class, and to have more of a focus on etiology of disorders rather than treatment. While this isn’t my favorite thing to focus on personally, I see how it makes it a great text for a psychopathology class.
October 6, 2011
I haven't read the whole book since I'm using it in my 3-year degree in Psychology but I'm reading bits and pieces and I'm sure I'll keep reading and going back to it for years to come. It's hard to say the word 'love' for an academic textbook but it's true, I honestly love this book. I like the way it's written. It's practical and useful. All in all, a great purchase!
May 13, 2023
Read this for school. It's a text book so like it wasn't always super enjoyable but it did have a lot of information and presented it in a somewhat engaging way. I didn't read chapters 4, 12 or 16 since they weren't required. I read it as a PDF on my phone and sometimes it felt like the examples and case studies interfered with the reading, like they weren't always placed correctly.
August 13, 2012
Read this book for a summer class. Found it wonderful psychology reading. Not too deep but profoundly interesting as textbooks go. In depth information on psychopathology; its etiologies and prognoses.
June 27, 2024
4,5/5
A great book! It was very clearly structured and easy & pleasant to read.
It is a very good book to read completely, and also to search for information.
I liked the approach, I felt like the book contained a broad deep field of knowledge.
A great book! It was very clearly structured and easy & pleasant to read.
It is a very good book to read completely, and also to search for information.
I liked the approach, I felt like the book contained a broad deep field of knowledge.
January 26, 2010
What I should be doing instead of reading ANYTHING ELSE, at least until after my exam. *sigh*
April 29, 2011
I took a few too many quizzes over this book to say I enjoyed it, but I think it will be a good resource down the line. Clear writing and relevant examples.
February 13, 2011
great introductory undergraduate textbook.
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