Abnormal Psychology
In asking the question of what abnormal psychology even is, we must quickly consider the very definition of our term ¡§abnormal¡¨. By all rights, ¡§abnormal¡¨ is an exceptionally confusing word dependent on what is called ¡§normality¡¨. Both terms may understandably change radically from one era to another and one culture to another. How then do we decide upon what is normal and what is abnormal? Indeed, this is much more of a philosophical problem than a psychological one. For understandable reasons of practicability, it is necessary to create a roughly uniform definition of abnormal psychology that we can more or less agree upon as a group of caregivers. This general definition would naturally be general in its nature, but the common definition of the discipline of abnormal psychology often looks something like this:
Abnormal psychology is the study of behavior patterns that
diverge widely from generally accepted norms, especially those......
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