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Edited by Benjamin L. Hankin and John R. Z. Abela, Development of Psychopathology: A Vulnerability-Stress Perspective brings together the foremost experts conducting groundbreaking research into the major factors shaping psychopathological disorders across the lifespan in order to review and integrate the theoretical and empirical literature in this field. The volume editors build upon two important and established research and clinical traditions: developmental psychopathology frameworks and vulnerability-stress models of psychological disorders.
Biological Vulnerabilities to the Development of Psychopathology
Biological Vulnerabilities to the Development of Psychopathology
The history of psychopathology is replete with a fascination with biological explanations for various disorders. From the trepanations of early cave dwellers, in which holes were gouged in the skull; to the humoral theories of Hippocrates, circa 400 BCE; the custodial, animal-like treatment of the mentally ill of the Renaissance; the enlightened humanists period; the time of influential theorists such as Kraeplin, Freud, and Jung; and on to the present, the belief in biological mechanisms underlying pathology has existed. Nevertheless, today is not yesterday. Generally lacking even just 30 years ago was credible scientific evidence to support this specific and persistent belief. In fact, a sort of antibiological movement ...
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