LEADER 03422nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910461667203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-06228-2 010 $a9786613519948 010 $a0-300-18491-3 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300184914 035 $a(CKB)2670000000176232 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23056535 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000623304 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11407637 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000623304 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10656476 035 $a(PQKB)11402983 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420802 035 $a(DE-B1597)486433 035 $a(OCoLC)784953775 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300184914 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420802 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10546761 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL351994 035 $a(OCoLC)923597340 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000176232 100 $a20110805d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPsychology's ghosts$b[electronic resource] $ethe crisis in the profession and the way back /$fJerome Kagan 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (416 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-17868-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1. Missing Contexts -- $t2. Happiness Ascendant -- $t3. Who is Mentally Ill? -- $t4. Helping the Mentally III -- $t5. Promising Reforms -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book is the product of years of thought and a profound concern for the state of contemporary psychology. Jerome Kagan, a theorist and leading researcher, examines popular practices and assumptions held by many psychologists. He uncovers a variety of problems that, troublingly, are largely ignored by investigators and clinicians. Yet solutions are available, Kagan maintains, and his reasoned suggestions point the way to a better understanding of the mind and mental illness.Kagan identifies four problems in contemporary psychology: the indifference to the setting in which observations are gathered, including the age, class, and cultural background of participants and the procedure that provides the evidence (he questions, for example, the assumption that similar verbal reports of well-being reflect similar psychological states); the habit of basing inferences on single measures rather than patterns of measures (even though every action, reply, or biological response can result from more than one set of conditions); the defining of mental illnesses by symptoms independent of their origin; and the treatment of mental disorders with drugs and forms of psychotherapy that are nonspecific to the diagnosed illness. The author's candid discussion will inspire the debate that is needed in a discipline seeking to fulfill its promises. 606 $aMental illness 606 $aPsychoanalysis 606 $aPsychology, Pathological 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMental illness. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis. 615 0$aPsychology, Pathological. 676 $a150.1 700 $aKagan$b Jerome$0161263 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461667203321 996 $aPsychology's ghosts$913250 997 $aUNINA