Abnormal Psychology

Compulsive buying is a shopping addiction with worldwide prevalence that causes significant emotional, financial, and social problems for those aff...

Moral injury has developed in earnest since 2009 within psychology and military studies, especially through work with veterans of the U.S. military...

In this book, Damian Janus examines the connections between psychopathological phenomena and religion. Janus contends that there are certain factor...

Springfield. Columbine. Sandy Hook. Each school shooting in the United States is followed by a series of questions. Why does this happen? Who are t...

Black Male Violence in Perspective: Towards Afrocentric Intervention represents a synthesis of lived experience, authoritative research, and Afro-c...

An impressive study that prompts the reader toward philosophical reflection on the hermeneutics of melancholy in its relation to maturing theologic...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Uncertainty: Struggling with a Shadow of a Doubt examines the structural and intrapsychic features of the self as...

Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical in order to account for their capacity to seize one’s life. Ra...

In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim’s etiology in ...

This book is an exploratory study, in sociological perspective, of the process of returning to the ordinary world after extraordinary experiences. ...

This book is an exploratory study, in sociological perspective, of the process of returning to the ordinary world after extraordinary experiences. ...

Moral injury has developed in earnest since 2009 within psychology and military studies, especially through work with veterans of the U.S. military...

The concept of moral injury emerged in the past decade as a way to understand how traumatic levels of moral emotions generate moral anguish experie...

In 2006, Babiak and Hare alerted the public to the danger of “corporate psychopaths,” psychopathic individuals occupying positions of power in busi...

In Dostoyevsky's Stalker, we discover how the arts may illuminate psychiatry and psychoanalysis, as well as how these disciplines may elucidate wor...

Compulsive buying is a shopping addiction with worldwide prevalence that causes significant emotional, financial, and social problems for those aff...

Despite the fact that we have been studying posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since at least the late 1800s, it remains prevalent and, in many c...

Many researchers today view emotions as biologically-based, evolutionary adaptations to environmental stimuli.  In this book, Stefan Hofmann and St...

Police and corrections personnel must always be mindful of the possibility that those in their custody may attempt suicide or commit an act of self...

In Dostoevsky as Suicidologist, Amy D. Ronner illustrates how self-homicide in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction prefigures Emile Durkheim’s etiology in ...

The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford rep...

An explanation of how Peruvian migrants maintain meaningful social relations across borders. In this engaging volume, Ulla D. Berg examines the con...

A concise overview of the neuropsychology of psychopathy, written in layman's terms The last two decades have seen tremendous growth in biological ...