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“Normal”: Definitions and Controversies
The distinction between “normal” and “abnormal” is at the heart of the study of psychological problems or mental illness. Despite its importance, this distinction continues to be a topic of debate. This debate has centered on a single overriding question: Are ...
- Cultural Comparisons of Mental Health Disorders
- Agoraphobia
- Alcoholism
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Antisocial Behavior
- Anxiety, Chronic
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autism
- Bereavement
- Bipolar Disorder
- Cognitive Disorder
- Delirium
- Delusions
- Dementia
- Dementia Praecox
- Depression
- Dissociative Disorders
- Double Bind Theory
- Drug Abuse
- Eating Disorders
- Hallucinations
- Huntington's Disease
- Hypersexuality
- Hysteria
- Impulse Control Disorder
- Kleptomania
- Learning Disorders
- Mania
- Melancholia
- Mood Disorders
- Moral Insanity
- Munchausen Syndrome
- Neurosyphilis
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- Panic Disorder
- Personality Disorder, Borderline
- Personality Disorders
- Pervasive Developmental Disorders
- Phobias
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Sadomasochism
- Schizoaffective Disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Sleep Disorders
- Sociopathic Disorders
- Tourette Syndrome
- Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness Around the World
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Canada
- China
- Colombia
- Congo, Democratic Republic of the
- Denmark
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- France
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Italy
- Japan
- Kenya
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Poland
- Russia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Vietnam
- Economics
- Epidemiology
- Mental Health Practitioners
- Nondrug Treatments
- The Patient
- Adolescence
- Ageism
- Art and Artists
- Children
- Chronicity
- Competence and Credibility
- Consumer-Survivor Movement
- Creativity
- Emotions and Rationality
- Ethical Issues
- Euthanasia
- Family Support
- Grandiosity
- Help-Seeking Behavior
- Iatrogenic Illness
- Informed Consent
- Intelligence
- Intelligibility
- Life Course
- Life Expectancy Trends
- Life Skills
- Migration
- Mind–Body Relationship
- Mortality
- Patient Activism
- Patient Rights
- Peer Identification
- Psychiatric Treatment, Pathways to
- Self-Injury
- Sex
- Social Isolation
- Somatization of Distress
- Stereotypes
- Stigma: Patient's View
- Stress
- Suicide: Patient's View
- Trauma: Patient's View
- Unemployment
- Veterans
- Violence
- Psychiatry and Psychology
- “Normal”: Definitions and Controversies
- Antipsychiatry
- Assessment Issues in Mental Health
- Biological Psychiatry
- Clinical Psychology
- Conduct, Unwanted
- Diagnosis
- DSM-5
- DSM-III
- DSM-IV
- Ethnopsychiatry
- Food and Drug Administration, U.S.
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Freud, Sigmund
- Jung, Carl Gustav
- Kraepelin, Emil
- Labeling
- Lacan, Jacques
- Laing, Ronald David
- Malpractice
- Mental Illness Defined: Psychiatric Perspectives
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Neo-Kraepelinian Psychiatry
- Psychiatric Training
- Psychiatry and Neurology
- Psychiatry and Neuroscience
- Psychoanalysis, History and Sociology of
- Psychosocial Adaptation
- Psychosomatic Illness, History and Sociology of
- Role Strains
- Scientology
- Szasz, Thomas
- Trauma, Psychology of
- Psychiatry and Space
- Architecture
- Asylums
- Board and Care Homes
- Community Mental Health Centers
- Deinstitutionalization
- Emergency Rooms
- Geography of Madness
- Globalization
- Homelessness
- Hospitals for the Criminally Insane
- Imperial Psychiatry
- Jails and Prisons
- Migration
- Neighborhood Quality
- Nursing Homes
- Urban Versus Rural
- Veterans' Hospitals
- War
- Psychopharmacology
- Amphetamines
- Antidepressants
- Atypical Antipsychotics
- Barbiturates
- Benzodiazepines
- Clinical Trials
- Clozapine
- Diazepam
- Dopamine
- Drugs and Deinstitutionalization
- Lithium
- Marketing
- Minor Tranquilizers
- Placebo Effect
- Polypharmacy
- Prozac
- Psychopharmacological Research
- Randomized Controlled Trial
- Reserpine
- Ritalin
- Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitors
- Side Effects
- Tardive Dyskinesia
- Thorazine and First-Generation Antipsychotics
- Tricyclic Antidepressants
- Public Policy
- Board and Care Homes
- Commitment Laws
- Compulsory Treatment
- Courts
- Department of Health and Human Services, U.S.
- Human Rights
- Inequality
- Insanity Defense
- Law and Mental Illness
- Legislation
- Medicare and Medicaid
- Mental Health America
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Policy: Federal Government
- Policy: Medical
- Policy: Military
- Policy: Police
- Policy: State Government
- Public Education Campaigns
- Right to Refuse Treatment
- Right to Treatment
- Service Delivery
- Social Control
- Social Security
- Voluntary Commitment
- World Health Organization
- Social History
- Unquiet Mind, An
- Anthropology
- Case Records
- Disability
- Disasters
- Fiction
- Legislation
- Mass Media
- Mechanical Restraint
- Medicalization, History of
- Mental Hygiene
- Mental Illness Defined: Historical Perspectives
- Mental Institutions, History of
- Mesmerism
- Movies and Madness
- Nazi Extermination Policies
- Neurasthenia
- Patient Accounts of Illness
- Popular Conceptions
- Refrigerator Mother
- Religion
- Shell Shock
- Television
- Theater
- Therapeutics, History of
- Trade in Lunacy
- Visual Arts
- Sociology
- Acculturation
- Business and Workplace Issues
- Care, Sociology of
- Clinical Sociology
- Courts
- Critical Theory
- Cultural Prevalence
- Dangerousness
- Deviance
- Durkheim, Émile
- Emotions and Rationality
- Exclusion
- Foucault, Michel
- Identity
- Integration, Social
- International Comparisons
- Internet and Social Media
- Interpersonal Dynamics
- Lay Conception of Illness
- Marginalization
- Medicalization, Sociology of
- Mental Illness Defined: Sociological Perspectives of
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
- Police, Sociology of
- Psychiatry and Sexual Orientation
- Public Education Campaigns
- Race
- Race and Ethnic Groups, American
- Self-Esteem
- Social Causation
- Social Class
- Social Isolation
- Social Support
- Stigma
- Suicide
- Treatment
- Vulnerability
- Women
- Work–Family Balance
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