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Abnormal Psychology Books
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The Sociopath Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.77 — 39,215 ratings — published 2005
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 252,344 ratings — published 1985
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,582 ratings — published 1995
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,649 ratings — published 1993
Abnormal Psychology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.96 — 725 ratings — published 1920
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.99 — 91,329 ratings — published 1973
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.03 — 34,295 ratings — published 1998
Essentials of Abnormal Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.78 — 273 ratings — published 2002
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,522 ratings — published 2011
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,230 ratings — published 1990
My Lobotomy: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.79 — 16,082 ratings — published 2007
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.90 — 36,563 ratings — published 1964
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 241,966 ratings — published 2012
I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.20 — 111,166 ratings — published 2018
Abnormal Psychology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 953 ratings — published 1992
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.58 — 43,805 ratings — published 2007
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.23 — 18,569 ratings — published 2013
Dark Dreams: Sexual Violence, Homicide and the Criminal Mind (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,011 ratings — published 2001
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by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.24 — 400 ratings — published 2011
Inside the Criminal Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,426 ratings — published 1984
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,327 ratings — published 2013
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.13 — 114,601 ratings — published 1980
The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.01 — 550 ratings — published 2017
The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,798 ratings — published 2012
No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,436 ratings — published 2017
Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,412 ratings — published 2013
The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.95 — 159,369 ratings — published 2011
Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 85,691 ratings — published 1995
Mad, Bad, and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.70 — 967 ratings — published 2007
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,170 ratings — published 1952
Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,698 ratings — published 2002
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,364,483 ratings — published 2015
Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.94 — 193 ratings — published 1993
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.95 — 289,566 ratings — published 1993
Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.02 — 737 ratings — published
Switching Time: A Doctor's Harrowing Story of Treating a Woman with 17 Personalities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,596 ratings — published 2007
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.25 — 830,816 ratings — published 1966
The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,611 ratings — published 2011
Disorders of Personality: DSM-IV™ and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.32 — 69 ratings — published 1981
When Rabbit Howls (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.05 — 17,986 ratings — published 1987
Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personality Case (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,281 ratings — published 2011
The Day the Voices Stopped (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,739 ratings — published 2001
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.20 — 792,187 ratings — published 1962
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,289,962 ratings — published 1963
Voluntary Madness: My Year Lost and Found in the Loony Bin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.39 — 3,911 ratings — published 2008
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.10 — 17,254 ratings — published 1995
The Quiet Room: A Journey Out of the Torment of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,038 ratings — published 1994
Madness: A Bipolar Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,929 ratings — published 2008
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,625,097 ratings — published 2003
Awakenings (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as abnormal-psychology)
avg rating 4.09 — 14,486 ratings — published 1973
“THE “AWARENESS” SHIELD FEAT.
According to the Bible, Joseph obtained enormous prestige in Egypt, when he was able to divine the dreams of the pharaoh,
As Joseph earned that feat with a great social prestige, in different traditions the "awareness" of the future, or an inaccessible present, always proved a merit that produces social honor. Weber (1922) considers the prophets, along with the priests and magicians, as examples of charismatic leaders, and this is because "predict " or " perceive" the future has been, in different traditions, a strong feat that has given pride and social prestige those who perform.
It postulates a "shield feat of awareness" that is intended to offset the impact on the pride of some future anti-feat. When the firepower that a possible future anti-feat has about pride and social prestige is too high and becomes unbearable, the person can go into that future equipped with a shield feat that will compensate. From that strategy, thinking badly of the future is a way of ensuring the "consolation prize" of having the merit of "prediction”.
According to Steele (1988 ), when a person experiences a negative assessment of himself in a particular field, they can initiate a process of self-affirmation activating positive beliefs in another area, thus achieving a positive overall assessment of itself. The pessimistic shield feat "awareness of future failure”, would be a merit that safeguards to offset the impact of that failure on self- concept , an achievement an overall assessment that is not so negative.”
― THE SHIELD FEATS THEORY: a different hypothesis concerning the etiology of delusions and other disorders.
According to the Bible, Joseph obtained enormous prestige in Egypt, when he was able to divine the dreams of the pharaoh,
As Joseph earned that feat with a great social prestige, in different traditions the "awareness" of the future, or an inaccessible present, always proved a merit that produces social honor. Weber (1922) considers the prophets, along with the priests and magicians, as examples of charismatic leaders, and this is because "predict " or " perceive" the future has been, in different traditions, a strong feat that has given pride and social prestige those who perform.
It postulates a "shield feat of awareness" that is intended to offset the impact on the pride of some future anti-feat. When the firepower that a possible future anti-feat has about pride and social prestige is too high and becomes unbearable, the person can go into that future equipped with a shield feat that will compensate. From that strategy, thinking badly of the future is a way of ensuring the "consolation prize" of having the merit of "prediction”.
According to Steele (1988 ), when a person experiences a negative assessment of himself in a particular field, they can initiate a process of self-affirmation activating positive beliefs in another area, thus achieving a positive overall assessment of itself. The pessimistic shield feat "awareness of future failure”, would be a merit that safeguards to offset the impact of that failure on self- concept , an achievement an overall assessment that is not so negative.”
― THE SHIELD FEATS THEORY: a different hypothesis concerning the etiology of delusions and other disorders.
“Behind a barbed-wire fence, a dirt road disappears into the distance in the pine trees and corners. Lost, dead roads, no ends or remaining purposes, power lines now dead and sagging and forgotten, grown high in weeds and young trees. The trees have entirely encased a speed limit sign, strange sight, nothing so pointless as a speed limit sign in the midst of dense woods, pointless and beautifully so.”
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