Introduction to Psychopathology.

An Introduction to Psychopathology

THE word "Psychoypathology" often strikes terror in the heart of the examination candidate because he is not sure what it means. To some, it signifies the detailed description of the content of mental disorder; to others it means the alleged unconscious factors which lie behind mental disorders. Professor Russel Davis starts his little book with a definition of Psychopathology: ". . . that part...

The Abnormal Person and His World: An Introduction to Psychopathology

Dr. Stern is a psychologist teaching at Harvard, and apparently active as a lay psychotherapist. He brings to this work a broad background of experience in European psychology, being a graduate of Brussels and Zurich, as well as of California and Harvard, and he is obviously at home in all the relevant literature, which he draws upon to very good effect. His book is based upon his lectures to D...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...

Introduction to Ethics

  The issues involved in this article are mainly concentrated on the origins of ethics or Moral ethics as an indepent science It has been said that this area of science was founded by Greek Philosophers after a great crisis and debates between such thinkers as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle on one side and  study of other cuitures and moral traditions, especially the Chinese and Hindu tradition...