Psychology 309

Abnormal Psychology

Haverford Psychology 309a
(www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/psych309/p309.98.html)

Fall, 1998
Doug Davis
Department of Psychology
Haverford College
Sharpless 310
The Final

Course procedures. This is intended to be an advanced seminar concerned with the history, social context, diagnosis, and treatment of psychopathology, with special emphasis on the "psychodynamic" tradition beginning with Freud. I expect each of you to keep up with the reading for each class, and most classes will consist of group discussion. Some of the readings for the course will be available as hypertextual links to this syllabus, and most classes will have associated on-line lecture notes and suggestions for discussion, so some geek skills are useful. This syllabus itself will change as we proceed, so you should access the Web version before each class.

Optional Practicum. For those of you who are interested, I will try to help arrange volunteer work in a nearby clinical setting, and I will meet with you during the semester to discuss your experiences.

If you have questions or concerns about this class, please see me after class or send me email.

Reading assignments and topics for each class meeting are at the end of this page, as is the program for the final exam.

Books

Shapiro, David. Neurotic Styles. New York: Basic Books.

Showalter, Elaine. Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture. New York: Columbia Univ. Press.

Szasz, Thomas. The Myth of Mental Illness. Harper. (Optional)

Gay, Peter. The Freud Reader. Norton. (Optional)

Readings and On-line Resources
P309 Tripod Reserve Listing

Acocella, Joan. The Politics of hysteria. New Yorker (April 6, 1998)

Amercian Bar Association. Commission on Domestic Violence.

Bateson, G. (1955). Epidemiology of a schizophrenia. In Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

Bateson, G. (1978). Allegory. CoEvolution Quarterly, Spring 1978, pp. 44-46.

Bateson, G., Jackson, D.D., Haley, J., & Weakland, J. (1956). Toward a theory of schizophrenia. Behavioral Science, 1, 251-264. In Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

Bayes, M. Wife battering and the maintenance of gender roles: A sociopsychological perspective.

Bleuler, M. (1974). The offspring of schizophrenics. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 8, 93-107.

Bordo, S. (1985). Anorexia nervosa: Psychopathology as the crystallization of culture.

Caplan, L. (1984). The insanity defense. The New Yorker, July 2.

Davis, D.A. (1976). On being detectably sane in insane places. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 85, 416-422.

Davis, D.A. (1979). What's in a name: A Bayesian rethinking of attributional biases in clinical judgment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 47, 1109-1114.

Davis, D.A. (1990). Writing Freud. Unpublished manuscript.

Davis, D.A. (1994). A theory for the 90s: Freud's seduction theory in historical context. Psychoanalytic Review, 81, 627-640.

Fine, M. (1984). Coping with rape: critical perspectives on consciousness.

Fornari, V. (1991). The aftermath of a plane crash: Helping a survivor cope with deaths of a mother and sibling.

Gill, M. (1982). Analysis of transference. (excerpt)

Goudsmit, E.M. (1998). Review of E. Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture. ME/CFS WebSite.

Gunderson, J.G., & Singer, M. (1986). Defining borderline patients: An overview.

Hoffman, J. (1992). When men hit women. The New York Times Magazine, February 16.

Hopper, J. (1998). Recovered memories of sexual abuse: Scientific research and scholarly resources.

Long, P.W. (1995-1997). Internet Mental Health

Kalat, J.W. (1992). Biological psychology. Chapter 15: Biology of depression and related disorders.

Khan, M.M.R. The evil contest: From cumulative trauma to ego mastery.

Khantzian et al. Cocaine: A clinical and psychodynamic perspective.

Kovacs, M., & Beck, A.T. Maladaptive cognitive structures in depression.

Kramer, P.D. (1993). Listening to Prozac. (pp. ix-66)

Langer, E., & Abelson, R.P. (1981). Reply to Douglas Davis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 49, 132-133.

Langer, E., & Abelson, R.P. A patient by any other name...: Clinician group differences in labeling bias. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974, 42, 4-9.

Malmquist, C., & Meehl, P.E. (1978). Barabbas: A case of guilt-ridden homicide. International Review of Psychoanalysis, 5, 149-174.

McDougall, Joyce (1989). Theaters Of The Body : A Psychoanalytic Approach To Psychosomatic Illness. Chapter 4: The staging of the irrepresentable: "A child is being eaten."

Meehl, P.E.. (1962). Schizotaxia, schizotypy, schizophrenia. American Psychologist.

Meehl, P.E. (1972). Specific genetic etiology, psychodynamics, and therapeutic nihilism. In P.E. Meehl, Psychodiagnosis: Collected papers. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1973. (pp. 187-189)

Merriam-Webster. WWW Dictionary

Morley, J. (1989). What crack is like. The New Republic, October 2.

Murphy, J.M. (1976) Psychiatric labeling in cross-cultural perspective. Science, 191, 1019-1027.

Nolem-Hoeksema, S. (1987). Sex differences in unipolar depression: Evidence and theory. Psychological Bulletin, 101, 259-282.

Panic Attacks and Panic Disorder (Harvard Mental Health Letter, Apr./May 1996)

Reiser, M.F. (1984). Mind, brain, body. Chapters 4-7: "Carol."

Rich, A. (1955). The perennial answer. From The Diamond Cutters (Reprinted in The Fact of a Doorframe.)

Rose, D.S. (1986). "Worse than death": Psychodynamics of rape victims and the need for therapy.

Rosenhan, D.L. (1973). On being sane in insane places. Science, 179, 250-258.

Rosenhan, D.L. (1975). The contextual nature of psychodiagnosis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 84, 462-474.

Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Harper. (excerpt)

Scher, Michael B. (1994). Soliloquy or Psychosis? A Cultural Look at Schizophrenia. www.cultural.com/~strange

Shedler, J., & Block, J. (1990). Adolescent drug use and psychological health: A longitudinal study. American Psychologist, 45, 612-630.

Spitizer, R.L. (1975). On pseudoscience in science, logic in remission, and psychiatric diagnosis: A critique of Rosenhan's "On being sane in insane places." Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1975, 84, 442-452.

Spitizer, R.L., & Williams, J.B.W. DSM-III-R. Introduction. Chapter 1: Classification. Chapter 2: Use of this manual. Chapter 3: The diagnostic categories: Mood disorders.

Striegel-Moore, R.H., Silberstein, L.R., & Rodin, J. (1986). Toward an understanding of risk factors for bulimia. American Psychologist, 41, 246-263.

Sullivan, H.S. Clinical Studies in Psychiatry. (excerpt)

Sullivan, H.S. Schizophrenia as a Human Process. (excerpt)

Szasz, Thomas. (1961/1974). The Myth of Mental Illness. Harper. Chapter 7: Language and Protolanguage. Chapter 8: Hysteria as Communication.

Taylor, S.E. (1989). Positive illusions: Creative self-deception and the healthy mind . New York: Basic Books. Chapter 6: Illusion, mania, and depression: A view from mental illness.

Tavris, C. (1997). Pursued by Fashionable Furies. Review of E. Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture. New York Times, May 4.

Terr, L.C. The children of Chowchilla: A study of psychic trauma.

Vaillant, G. (1983). The natural history of alcoholism: Causes, patterns, and paths to recovery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapter 1: Is alcoholism a unitary disorder? Chapter 2: The etiology of alcoholism.

Wechsler, H.; Dowdall G.W., Davenport A. & DeJong, W. (1993). Binge Drinking On Campus: Results Of A National Study (Harvard School of Public Health)

YWCA. Rape Crisis Counseling and Support Groups.

Topics, Assignments

Tu 9/1/98: Course Overview, examples
Th 9/3/98: Freud, "Seduction,", Specific Etiology
Tu 9/8/98: Dora and Freud: Gay, Freud Reader, pp. 172-206 (i.e., Freud's Dora case up to "The First Dream")
Th 9/10/98: Shapiro: Preface, "Hysteria"
Tu 9/15/98: finish Shapiro; anxiety, defence, ego, health; case examples
Th 9/17/98: Neurotic Styles illustrated