Personality Disorders

Research Paper # 117959

Psychology > Disorders
Psychology > Therapies

This is a research paper on abnormal psychology and personality disorders.

2,884 words () | 7 sources | MLA | 2009 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper describes the recent develops in the field of abnormal psychology and gives descriptions of a multitude of various mental illnesses included in the Diagnostic Statistics Manual, Volume IV (DSM IV). The paper also includes information on diagnosing mental illnesses and treatment.

From the Paper:

"The burden remains on the therapist to prove or document that the patient's symptoms have clinically caused the effect being studied, where relative impairment represents a broader range of potentialities, which raises or expands the standard by which to achieve resolution or integrate the effect of chronic stress in general. Once again, we see where the clinical stress is generic to all disorders, and that is the specific disorder that is diagnosed as separate from the common aspects of general ailments that have been clinically documented previously by research."

Sample of Sources Used:

Begley, Sharon. "Wired For Thought." Newsweek, Fall/Winter 2000, pp. 25 -30: http://www.uic.edu/classes/psych/psych270/wired.htm
Brazelton, Berry and Greenspan, Stanley. "Our Window to the Future." Newsweek, Fall/Winter 2000, pp. 34-36. Retrieved April 13, 2008: http://www.uic.edu/classes/psych/psych270/future.htm
"Full List of DMS-IV diagnoses." 2008: http://psyweb.com/Mdisord/DSM_IV/jsp/dsmab.jsp
Hansell, James and Damour, Lisa. Abnormal Psychology. New York 2004 Wiley.
"Mental Disorders." Retrieved April 13, 2008: http://psyweb.com/Mdisord/jsp/mental.jsp