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Normality Rev

出版	Basic Books, 1974-12-19
主題	Psychology / GeneralPsychology / Mental Health
ISBN	04650514729780465051472
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7kQ6AAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Immediately after the publication of its first edition, Normality was hailed as a remarkable breakthrough in helping to identify the behavioral and social characteristics of mental health. But precisely what constitutes "normal" behavior is a continuing dialogue in mental health today, and the steady increase of empirical studies of mentally healthy populations has prompted the authors to undertake this revised edition in which they have paid particular attention to research on normality and the implications that this research has, and will have, for a deeper theoretical understanding of normal personality development and the psychodynamic understanding of the coping process. After classifying theoretical and clinical concepts as presently used in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and biology, the authors synthesize four major perspectives of normality; critically review contemporary research in the evaluation of criteria of normality; and offer guidelines for future research. They predict that the next decade will see more theory building based on the empiricism of the late 60s and early 70s.