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Publication Date: 28 Jun 2010 | ISBN-10: 0273742302 | ISBN-13: 978-0273742302 | Edition: 1

Abnormal, Clinical and Forensic Psychology offers a European perspective and a unique, comprehensive introduction to the field of abnormal psychology. The book takes an international perspective and considers the impact of cross-cultural issues, beliefs and opinions. The book explores the nature of psychopathology and its causes, and addresses the psychological studies that have shaped psychopathology. The book integrates clinical and forensic psychology and the use of case studies throughout the book offer a unique and intimate portrait of each disorder, bringing the concepts to life through personal experience. Topics and debates covered in the text range from nature vs. nurture and the mad bad debate, to obesity and food addiction. The book is supported by a companion website: www.pearsoned.co.uk/davidholmes

The website includes: Fascinating video interviews with real disorder sufferers and "day in the life" documentaries charting their experiences; plus multiple choice tests for each chapter.

Abnormal, Clinical and Forensic Psychology is recommended reading for all undergraduate Psychology students that cover abnormal psychology as part of their course, i.e. clinical, forensic, health, mental health, psychiatry, and psychopathology related modules.

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The website includes: Fascinating video interviews with real disorder sufferers and "day in the life" documentaries charting their experiences; plus multiple choice tests for each chapter.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Great Read, Glad I bought it! 8 May 2011

By NAC

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This book is a must for any student (at any point in their education - whether just stating out, undergraduate or even masters), lecturer or researcher. Want to know how to sum up complex, intriguing psychological in an in depth, understandable format? - look no further!

The book not only accurately sums up key psychological issues of contemporary and historical psychology, but also has great sections on areas relating to areas key in contemporary forensic, clinical and psychological literature. For example the book has a wonderful section summing up 21st century biological positivist views - in particular that of Raine!

Furthermore the book aptly assesses and evaluates new areas including Kleptomania, Cyber crime and Mood Disorders.

Its not just the Authors contribution which is impressive the Guest Chapters On Schizophrenia and Research Methods currently used in Contemporary Forensic Research are brilliant and insightful as well.

Furthermore the Disk comes with a comprehensive, interactive and insanely useful DVD/CD-ROM, which combines real life interviews, interactive multiple choice questions on the literature, stories which explore contemporary debates, and documentaries, a key text for any undergraduate student!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Starting Point! 19 April 2011

By Liam K

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Great book, starting University doing Forensic Psychology BSc (Hons) in September 2011.

Be a great book to start getting insight! Modern feel, very colourful, great use of diagrams and imagery.

Great for any undergraduate!!

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and readable coverage 3 Jan 2011

By J. Glaister

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This is excellent and readable coverage of the topic for both the undergraduate student and lecturer with up to date case studies and flashes of humour which makes even some of the more dense subject areas memorable.

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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent 13 Feb 2012

By shanice

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This book is a really good buy. It is written in an easily digestible way that isn't confusing. The case studies are excellent and help to put the topics and issues discussed into a real life context. Very useful as a core text for Psychology , especially if you're interested in looking at 'atypical' topics/issues

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3.0 out of 5 stars Shortcomings 10 May 2013

By chalithra

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After studying psychology with a specialisation in forensic psychology for several years in a different country I came across this book. It's a riddle to me how everyone else could possibly praise it or recommend it to anyone. It is utterly uncritical towards everything contemporary mainstream psychology and, while proposing that several opposing theories and challenging views are merely radically wrong and/or narrow-minded (e.g. 'sociology', which is being named in one go with scientology and everything anti-psychiatry is basically put on a level with psychoanalysis), it is itself manipulative and reckless in it's attempt to disencourage each and every kind of thoughtful reflection, it mixes undifferentiated criticisms and charlatanry. If the cautious reader looks up terms like 'Anti-Psychiatry' he or she might find this movement at least in general has little to do with parapsychology or radical ideologies. For instance we find on the Wikipedia:

'Controversy has often surrounded psychiatry, and the anti-psychiatry message is that psychiatric treatments are ultimately more damaging than helpful to patients. Psychiatry is often thought to be a benign medical practice, but at times is seen by some as a coercive instrument of oppression. Psychiatry is seen to involve an unequal power relationship between doctor and patient, and a highly subjective diagnostic process, leaving too much room for opinions and interpretations. Every society, including liberal Western society, permits compulsory treatment of mental patients.

Psychiatry's history involves what some view as dangerous treatments. Electroconvulsive Therapy was one of these, which was used widely between the 1930s and 1960s.... A brain surgery called lobotomy was another practice that was ultimately seen as too invasive and brutal. In the US, between 1939 and 1951, over 50,000 lobotomy operations were performed in mental hospitals. Valium and other sedatives were over-prescribed, which led to an epidemic of dependence. There was also concern about the significant increase in prescribing psychiatric drugs for children.

Three authors came to personify the movement against psychiatry, and two of these were practicising psychiatrists. The most influential of these was R.D. Laing who wrote a series of best-selling books, including The Divided Self. Thomas Szasz rose to fame with his book The Myth of Mental Illness. Michael Foucault challenged the very basis of psychiatric practice and cast it as repressive and controlling. The term "anti-psychiatry" was coined by David Cooper in 1967.

Divergence within psychiatry which generated the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1960s and 1970s, is still present. Freedom versus coercion, mind versus brain, nature versus nurture, and the right to be different, remain contemporary issues. Some ex-patient groups have become militantly anti-psychiatric, often referring to themselves as "survivors" rather than patients.'

Furthermore, Critical Psychology has produced some very interesting and noteworthy concepts, even though (or exactly because?) it is rooted in Marxism.

According to the author of this book, psychology is (wants to be?) a hard science. In my opinion psychology is never only a hard science, no matter what some hardliners want us to believe. We are human beings, social beings, and yes, political too: a reality Karl Popper was able to acknowledge. What is happening today is that psychology is losing it's theoretical hold by trying to ignore where it came from, what it does and what for. People are getting ahead of themselves when epistemiological foundations are threatened to be forgotten. This book does absolutely nothing to help in this respect. As psychologists we have a responsibility after all, and we better try stopping to deny it - preferably before we become instruments to some kind of inhumane policy. Especially since morality is a core idea of justice and the legal system. It cannot be alienated from forensic psychology without emptying the whole concept into nothingness.

Besides it can never be wrong to at least listen to what people with other ideas have to say. There is so much to learn and there is so much to know beyond mainstream psychology. Read the sociologists and the philosophers. They deserve to be read.

If you want to learn about forensic psychology this book is ok, but I'd rather recommend Dennis Howitt or Graham M. Davies, informative books, which won't try to manipulate you into believing their own political agenda. Read more ›

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5.0 out of 5 stars A++ 13 Feb 2011

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Ordered on Tuesday mrning... Arrived on Weds morning...
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