Human Deformities and Abnormal Psychology

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The ugly face: deformity not defectiveness. 3. Prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal disorders. 4. A patient\'s guide to rotational deformities in children. 5. A systematic review of the effects of casting on equinus in children with cerebral palsy. 6. Monstrosity, masculinity, and medicine reexamining the elephant man. 7. Craniofacial deformity in patients with uncorrected congenital muscular torticollis. 8. Chromosomal abnormalities and mental disorders. 9. Self surveillance: from abnormality to individuals at risk. 10. Chromosomal abnormalities in mental retardation: Indian experience. 11. Normality, abnormality, and adjustment disorder. 12. Duration abnormality detection in sequences of human activity. 13. Congenital Orthopaedic deformities. 14. The significance of hypnosis in general practice. 15. Mental health in childhood and human capital. 16. Childhood antisocial behavior and adolescent alcohol use disorders. 17. Crying threshold and intensity in major depressive disorder. Bibliography. Index.

"Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behaviour, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as being a mental disorder. There is a long history of attempts to understand and control behavior deemed to be aberrant or deviant statistically, morally or in some other sense, and there is often cultural variation in the approach taken. The field of abnormal psychology identifies multiple different causes for different conditions, employing diverse theories." (jacket)