Resource Guide:
Abnormal Psychology
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Psychology, Pathological
- Psychiatry
- Psychotherapy
- Mental illness
- Social psychology
- Maladjustment (Psychology)
- Stigma (Social psychology)
- Anxiety disorders
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Spousal abuse--United States
- Manic-depressive illness
- Depression, Mental
- Substance abuse
- Personality disorders
- Antisocial personality disorders
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Dissociative disorders
- Schizotypal personality disorder
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology
- Research in Psychotherapy
- Child Neuropsychology : A journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence
- Clinical Psychologist
- Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
- European Journal of Developmental Psychology
- Brain & Behavior
- Case Reports in Psychiatry
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders : DSM-5 | RC 455.2 .C4 D536 2013 |
| Anxiety and Related Disorders: A Handbook | RC 531 .A575 1994 |
| Comprehensive handbook of psychopathology | RC 454 .C636 1983 |
| Abnormal psychology and modern life | RC 454 .C6 1976 |
| Achilles in Vietnam : Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character | RC 550 .S53 1994 |
| War and the Soul : Healing our Nation's Veterans and our Nation from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | RC 552 .P67 T53 2005 |
| The reason I jump : the inner voice of a thirteen-year-old boy with autism | RC 553 .A88 H5313 2013 |
| Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire: a study of genius, mania, and character | RC 537 .J356 2017 |
| A Beautiful Mind | DVD QA 29 Beautiful Mind |
| A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics | QA 29 .N25 N37 1998 |
| What's Eating Gilbert Grape? | POP-FIC Hedges What/Eating/GilbertGrape |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower | POP-FIC Chbosky Perks |
| Understanding and Treating Depression: Ways to Find Hope and Help | RC 537 .N93 2008 |