Mental Illness Defined - Continuums, Regulation, and Defense (Paperback)

Understanding the true nature of mental illness is essential for interpreting disparate research results, establishing accurate diagnostic profiles, setting robust research agendas, and optimizing therapeutic interventions. Psychopathology currently lacks a unifying framework. Mental Illness Defined: Continuums, Regulation, and Defense provides such a framework by filling the knowledge gap. Continuums, as opposed to numerous discrete entities, characterize mental illness. Impaired regulation fosters extreme expressions of mental illness continuums, an occurrence that can be compensated for by "cognitive regulatory control therapies." Defenses tend to moderate behavior, although excessive levels foster dysfunction, as with personality disorders. The model presented aligns with neuroscience and other relevant data, thereby placing psychopathology on a more scientific foundation to advance the aims of both researchers and treatment providers.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2016
First published:	2017
Authors:	Brad Bowins
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-20060-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Promotions
LSN:	1-138-20060-3
Barcode:	9781138200609

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