The compelling story of the quest to understand the human mind –
and its diseases
This engaging presentation of our evolving understanding of the
human mind and the meaning of mental illness asks the questions
that have fascinated philosophers, researchers, clinicians, and
ordinary persons for millennia: What causes human behavior? What
processes underlie personal functioning and psychopathology, and
what methods work best to alleviate disorders of the mind? Written
by Theodore Millon, a leading researcher in personality theory and
psychopathology, it features dozens of illuminating profiles of
famous clinicians and philosophers.
Table of Content
Prologue.
PART I: PHILOSOPHICAL STORIES.
1. Demythologizing the Ancients’ Spirits.
2. Resuscitating and Fashioning Scientific Thinking.
PART II: HUMANITARIAN STORIES.
3. Creating and Reforming the Custodial Asylum.
4. Rekindling Sensibilities and Releasing Potentials.
PART III: NEUROSCIENTIFIC STORIES.
5. Identifying, Describing, and Classifying Psychiatric
Disorders.
6. Exploring and Altering the Convoluted Brain.
PART IV: PSYCHOANALYTIC STORIES.
7. Exposing and Decoding the Unconscious.
8. Innovating the Intricacies of Intrapsychic Thought.
PART V: PSYCHOSCIENTIFIC STORIES.
9. Untangling Learning and Remedying Behavior.
10. Scrutinizing Introspections and Rebuilding Cognitions.
PART VI: SOCIOCULTURAL STORIES.
11. Unveiling the Social and Anthropological World.
12. Exploring and Enhancing Interpersonal Relationships.
PART VII: PERSONOLOGIC STORIES.
13. Enlisting Evolution to Elucidate Human Adaptations.
14. Systematically Measuring and Integrating the Mind.
Epilogue.
About the Author.
References.
Index.
About the author
Theodore Millon, Ph D, DSc, Professor Emeritus of Harvard Medical School and the University of Miami, is currently Dean and Scientific Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology in Coral Gables, Florida. Developer of several influential diagnostic instruments, he is author of numerous other Wiley books, including the forthcoming Personality Disorders in Modern Life, Second Edition.
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