{"product_id":"abnormal-psychology-coriat","title":"Abnormal Psychology","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBy Isador H. Coriat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABNORMAL psychology  or the study of abnormal mental phenomena  is one of the late developments of scientific medicine. It is not a mere fad  as some of its critics would attempt to make us believe  neither has it sprung up like a mushroom  within a single night. Abnormal psychology is the outcome of the work of small groups of investigators in France  Germany  and America  within the last twenty- five years. Beginning with a study of the phenomena of hypnosis  these researches gradually developed into a series of brilliant psychological discoveries. The most important of these is the principle of dissociation or of N splitting of the mind. In a general way we speak of these matters as the theory of the subconscious. This theory has not only thrown an immense amount of light on the nature of human personality  but other peculiar phenomena  such as losses of memory or amnesia  automatic writing  crystal gazing  and such diseases as neurasthenia  hysteria  psychasthenia  have been stripped of the mystery which surrounded them for centuries. These phenomena  even more than the modern investigations on the ultimate nature of matter  form the \"fairyland of science.\" Apart from any scientific knowledge  the general reader has a certain interest in these problems  either from curiosity or the light they shed upon human personality or perhaps from the mystery which seems to surround them. Abnormal psychology has also its practical aspects. Its discoveries have made possible the psychic treatment of certain functional nervous disorders. Technically  this is known as psychotherapeutics. The interpretation of these functional states is based on the principle of the dissociation of consciousness. But psychotherapeutics would be in a very chaotic condition and barren of results  were it not for abnormal psychology  for a scientific psychotherapeutics must be based upon a sound psychopathology.","brand":"Lushena Books","offers":[{"title":"PAPERBACK","offer_id":52437625438488,"sku":"9798890960245","price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"HARDCOVER","offer_id":52437625471256,"sku":"9798890960351","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/8203\/8296\/files\/9798890960245.jpg?v=1784923714","url":"https:\/\/lushenabooksinc.com\/products\/abnormal-psychology-coriat","provider":"Lushena","version":"1.0","type":"link"}