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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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The Problem of Assessment and Diagnosis | |
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Edgar Allan Poe, "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether" | |
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E. T. A. Hoffmann, "The Story of Serapion" (from The Serapion Bretheran) | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Cognitive Disorders | |
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Delirium | |
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Charles Dickens, "The Stroller's Tale" (from The Pickwick Papers) | |
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Dementia | |
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Theodore Dreiser, "The Lost Phoebe" | |
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Amnestic Disorders | |
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Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Substance-Related Disorders | |
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Alcohol Dependence | |
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Jack London, John Barleycorn | |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Miniver Cheevy" | |
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Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh | |
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Drug Dependence | |
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Thomas de Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders | |
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Paranoid Schizophrenia | |
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Edgar Allan Poe, "The Tell-Tale Heart" | |
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Disorganized Schizophrenia | |
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet | |
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia | |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" | |
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Schizoaffective Disorder | |
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Anton Chekhov, "Ward No. 6" | |
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Delusional Disorder | |
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Guy de Maupassant, "A Madman" | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Mood Disorders | |
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Major Depressive Disorder | |
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Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar | |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Richard Corey" | |
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Kate Chopin, The Awakening | |
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Dysthymic Disorder | |
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Charles Dickens, "The Bloomsbury Christening" | |
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Bipolar Disorder | |
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Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind | |
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Cyclothymia | |
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Nikolai Leskov, "The Amazon" | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Anxiety Disorders | |
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Panic Disorder | |
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Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin | |
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Phobia | |
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Graham Greene, "The End of the Party" | |
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | |
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William Shakespeare, Macbeth | |
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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | |
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Jonathan Shay, Achilles in Vietnam | |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder | |
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Guy de Maupassant, "He" | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Personality Disorders | |
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Schizoid Personality Disorder | |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Wakefield" | |
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder | |
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H. P. Lovecraft, "The Thing on the Doorstep" | |
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Antisocial Personality Disorder | |
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Oliver Goldsmith, "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog" | |
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O. Henry, "The Marionettes" | |
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Borderline Personality Disorder | |
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Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted | |
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Histrionic Personality Disorder | |
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Anton Chekhov, "An Enigmatic Nature" | |
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder | |
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Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit | |
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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder | |
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Nicolai Vasilyevitch Gogol, "The Overcoat" | |
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Discussion Questions | |
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Disorders of Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence | |
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Mental Retardation | |
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Jack London, "Told in the Drooling Ward" | |
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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder | |
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Caroline Janover, Zipper | |
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder | |
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O. Henry, "The Ransom of Red Chief" | |
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Conduct Disorder | |
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Claude Brown, Manchild in the Promised Land | |
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Eating Disorders | |
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Marya Hornbacher, Wasted | |
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Discussion Questions | |