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abnormal psychology

 or psychopathology

Branch of psychology. It is concerned with mental and emotional disorders (e.g., neurosis, psychosis, mental deficiency) and with certain incompletely understood normal phenomena (such as dreams and hypnosis). The chief tool used in classifying psychological disorders is the American Psychiatric Assn.'s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th edition (DSM-IV).


psychopathology
the scientific study of mental disorders

psychopathology [¦sī·kō·pə′thäl·ə·jē]
(psychology)
The systematic study of mental diseases.


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He discusses them in groups, so that, for example Pavlov and Skinner are among behavioralists, Chomsky with cognitivists, Turing and Searle with computationalists, Dewey and Foucalt with philosophers, and Freud with psychopathologists.
In critiquing the DSM's classification system regarding mental disorders of adolescents, Grisso emphasizes the value of the conceptual approach of developmental psychopathologists.
Though still preliminary, the use of carbon dioxide enriched air in aversive learning preparations may provide experimental psychopathologists and basic behavioral scientists a means to evoke topographies of psychological and physiological responses that mirror those seen in persons suffering from anxiety-related disorders.
 
 
 
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