An Outline of Abnormal Psychology (1929)
Table of Contents

Gardner Murphy, Ed.

Table of Contents/ Editor’s Introduction

 MENTAL DEFICIENCY (FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS)

A.F. Tredgold Mental Deficiency. Illustrative Cases
H.H. Goddard Feeble-Mindedness, Its Causes and Consequences
L.S. Hollingworth Secondary Types of Mental Deficiency
A.F. Tredgold Idiots Savants
 

INSANITY (THE PSYCHOSES)

Clifford W. Beers            A Mind That Found Itself
Bernard Hart The Psychology of Insanity
E.A. Strecker & F.G. Ebaugh Dementia Praecox
Paranoia
S.E. Jelliffe & W.A. White Manic Depressive Psychoses
Aaron J. Rosanoff  Involutional Melancholia
E.A. Strecker  The Precipitating Situation in Mental Disease
Earl D. Bond Personality and Outcomes
 
 
OTHER TWISTS IN PERSONALITY (HYSTERIA, MORBID FEARS, SUGGESTION, ETC.)
Piérre Janet  Irene
W.H.R. Rivers A Case of Claustrophobia
H.L. Hollingsworth The Psychology of Functional Neuroses
H.A. Aikins  Casting Out a “Stuttering Devil”
Morton Prince The Unconscious
Anita Mühl Automatic Writing
Wesley R. Wells  Waking Hypnosis
W.R. Prince  The Doris Case of Multiple Personality

 

THE ORIGIN OF ABNORMAL TRENDS IN CHILDHOOD

L.B. Hohman The Formation of Life Patterns
Marion E. Kenworthy Mental Health in Childhood
Sybil Foster Personality Deviations & Their Relation to the Home

 

SOCIAL EFFECTS AND SOCIAL TREATMENT

Miriam Van Waters  Youth in Conflict 
William Healy & A. F. Bronner  Jack Long
Gardner Murphy Reflection and Comment

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Thanks to the contributor:
John Peterson

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