Development and Psychopathology

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An account of the psychoanalytical developmental psychology of common psychiatric disturbances. Comprises case vignettes of both children and adults with various types and degrees of illness. Disturbances discussed are: anxiety, signal anxiety, and panic; neuroses; non- neurotic developmental disorders; schizophrenic and paranoiac psychoses; mania and hypomania; and manic-depressive depressions. Annotation(c) 2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)