An Outline of Abnormal Psychology

William McDougall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781138941458
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317376828
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Originally published in 1926, a complement to the author's Outline of Psychology, this book surveys the field of neurotic and mental disorders in so far as they are not due to gross organic lesions. It discusses this principal types of mental process that are abnormal or disorderly in the sense that they are departures from the fully waking processes of the normal mind, seeking to understand them in terms of the general principles laid down in the earlier volume. Sleep, the influence of drugs and suggestion, conflict and repression, automatisms and somnambulisms, morbid fears, obsessions and impulsions, perversions, delusions, exaltation and depression, multiple personalities, psycho-therapy, and the schools of abnormal psychology – these and many others are the topics discussed from the point of view, not of medical practice, but of psychological theory. A book, not for the medical expert only, but for every man or woman interested in the riddle of human personality.

INDEX

Abreaction, 261, 451

Acquisitiveness, 164

Adler, A., 22, 429

Asthenia, 26

Alcohol, 66, 442

Alcohol a narcotic, 73

Alkaloids, 66

Allegory in dreams, 148, 193

Allport, G., 207

Alnaschar, 207

Alrutz, S., 86

Alternating personalities, 482

Amnesia, 235, 245, 458

Anaesthesia, 113, 245

Anaesthetics, 66

Anal-eroticism, 164

Angst, 263

Anima, 198, 202

Anxieties, 263

Anxiety and fear, 317; state, 269

Archetypes, 193

Aristotle, 19

Association-reaction, 232

Asthenia, 265

Autistic thinking, 208

Autognosis, 457

Automatic movements, 253

Automatic writing, 256

Auto-suggestion, 122

Bad language, 278, 313

Badouin, 123

Bagby, E., 305

Balance of functions, 47

Bashfulness, 387, 566

Battle-dreams, 138

Baynes, 4, 24

Behaviourists, 5, 17

Belief and dissociation, 242

Bell, Sanford, 566

Bennett, Hughes, 114

Berman, L., 353, 519

Bernheim, 81

Bjerre, P., 319

Bleuler, E., 51, 55, 208, 336, 342, 355

Brain in hypnosis, 103, 108

Brain in sleep, 78, 107

Brain lesions, 354

Branwell, Milne, 97, 115

Breuer, 131

Brill, A. A., 179, 185

Brown, W., 24, 64, 452, 458

Bruhl, Lévy, 209

Bull as symbol, 196

Campto-cormia, 243

Cannon, W. B., 45

Carpenter, W. B., 209, 253

Cartoons and dreams, 14...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Preface
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations of Titles of Works Frequently Referred to
• I. Sketch of the Schools of Abnormal Psychology
• II. On the Nature of Functional Disorders in General
• III. Fatigue, Drugs, and Sleep
• IV. Hypnosis
• V. Theory of Hypnosis and Suggestion
• VI. Theories of Suggestion of Janet and Freud
• VII. Dreaming
• VIII. Freud’s Theory of Dreaming
• IX. Jung’s Theory of Dreaming
• X. Day-Dreaming
• XI. Conflict, Repression, and the Complex
• XII. Dissociation
• XIII. Automatisms—Fugues, Somnambulisms, Fits
• XIV. Vague Fears and Anxieties
• XV. Symbolisation and Symbolic Symptoms
• XVI. Regression
• XVII. Tics and Stereotyped Movements
• XVIII. Compulsions and Obsessions
• XIX. Perversions of the Sex Impulse
• XX. Delusions
• XXI. Hallucinations
• XXII. Exaltation and Depression
• XXIII. Schizophrenia
• XXIV. Epileptoid Seizures
• XXV. Freud’s Views on the Nature and Causation of Neurotic and Mental Disorders
• XXVI. Freud’s Therapy
• XXVII. Dr. Alfred Adler’s Theory of the Neuroses
• XXVIII. Psychological Types and Their Relations to the Disorder-Process
• XXIX. Psychotherapeutic Methods and Mental Hygiene
• XXX. Alternating Personalities
• XXXI. Coexisting or Coconscious Personalities
• XXXII. Trance Personalities
• XXXIII. Theory of Personality and of Its Disintegration
• XXXIV. Integration and Disintegration from the Point of View of Consciousness
• Appendix—The Definition of the Sexual Instinct
• Index