What is psychopathology and where did it start

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Please help me.I am taking a psychopathology class and I have very limited resources in Honduras.

-- Elsy Raquel Miranda (eraqm@yahoo.com), January 23, 2002

Answers

There are several websites devoted to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. For example

http://www.psychologynet.org/dsm.html

The DSM and the related ICD provide categories and descriptions of mental illness/psychopathology. For an ICD website, see

http://www.who.int/whosis/icd10/

You can also try to find a copy of Gregory Zilboorg's A History of Medical Psychology, which is an excellent historical overview. Most history of psychology textbooks provide at least a little overview of early clinical psychology and approaches to psychopathology. I would also look in encyclopedias and dictionaries of psychology for articles on psychopathology, or abnormal psychology, or mental illness. In older literature you'll find different language. For example, in the 19th century those who offered services to the insane were called alienists (now psychiatrists). But I think you can find a lot of good material if you search the internet using DSM-IV and ICD- 10 as search terms.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), January 23, 2002.


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