2. Psychology and Psychopathology

The psychology and psychopathology of attention.

The study of attention has played a significant role in the history of both clinical psychiatry and experimental psychology. The former is marked by unconditional positive regard, while the latter reveals a variable course that extends over the span of a century. The first psychology laboratory gave primacy to attentional studies and other laboratories modeled that interest. Then for a period o...

Integrating psychopathology, positive psychology, and psychotherapy.

Reading the special issue of the American Psychologist (January 2000) on the contemporary, data-based movement of positive psychology was an uplifting experience in itself. Positive psychology seems to emerge as a renewed humanistic approach to the individual and collective potential for happiness, but this time it is strengthened by empirical data and adequate research methodologies. Seligman ...

Galen on psychology, psychopathology, and function and diseases of the nervous system

Understanding anxiety disorders: the psychology and the psychopathology of defence mechanisms against threats.

The mental defense system plays a central role in ensuring individual and species survival from dangers. The cost of its activation is a decrease in freedom in favour of an increase in safety. Anxiety, fear and panic are the organizing principles of this system: anxiety arising in response to the anticipation of a threat, fear arising in response to external environmental threats and panic aris...

Evidence-based assessment in pediatric psychology: measures of psychosocial adjustment and psychopathology.

OBJECTIVE To provide an evidence-based review of measures of psychosocial adjustment and psychopathology, with a specific focus on their use in the field of pediatric psychology. METHODS As part of a larger survey of pediatric psychologists from the Society of Pediatric Psychology e-mail listserv (American Psychological Association, APA, Division 54), 37 measures were selected for this psycho...