What Is Abnormal Behavior?

Statistical Infrequency

 

Violation of Norms

 

Personal Distress

 

Disability or Dysfunction

 

Unexpectedness

 

History of Psychopathology

Early Demonology

 

Somatogenesis

 

The Dark Ages and Demonology

 

The Mentally Ill as Witches

 

Development of Asylums

 

Moral Treatment

 

The Beginning of Contemporary Thought

 

 

Science: A Human Enterprise

Subjectivity in Science: The Role of Paradigms

 

An Example of Paradigms in Abnormal Psychology