Principles of Abnormal Psychology: The Dynamics of Psychic Illness (First edition, 1941)
By Abraham H. Maslow and Béla Mittelmann

FOREWORD VII

PART I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS
I. INTRODUCTORY SURVEY: A TYPICAL CASE 3
II. SOME FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS 17
III. THE MEANING OF "ABNORMAL" 26
IV. THE NORMAL PERSONALITY 33
V. PSYCHOSOMATICS: MOTIVATION, EMOTION, ETC. 46

PART II. PSYCHODYNAMIC PROCESSES
VI. UNCONSCIOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CONFLICT 79
VII. FRUSTRATION AND ITS EFFECTS 109
VIII. DISTURBANCES OF THE EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT 131
IX. DISTURBANCES OF SELF-EVALUATION 142
X. COPING WITH DANGERS; DEFENSE, AMELIORATION, DEVIOUS SOLUTIONS, ETC. 154
XI. EXPERIMENTALLY PRODUCED BEHAVIOR DISTURBANCES 169
XII. THE PRECIPITATION AND MAINTENANCE OF PSYCHIC ILLNESS 179

PART III. THE ETIOLOGY OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
XIII. GENETIC, CONSTITUTIONAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINERS IN MENTAL DISEASE 195
XIV. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 206
XV. ORIGINS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN CHILDHOOD 227
XVI. ORIGINS OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IN PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS 245

PART IV. PSYCHOTHERAPY
XVII. AIMS AND NATURE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY 273
XVIII. TECHNIQUES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY 281
XIX. SUGGESTION AND HYPNOSIS 301
XX. PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY 314

PART V. THE SYMPTOM SYNDROMES
XXI. REACTIONS TO SHOCK, THREAT, OR BODILY INJURY (TRAUMATIC NEUROSES) 363
XXII. REACTIONS IN WHICH ANXIETY OR PHOBIA PREDOMINATE 376
XXIII. REACTIONS IN WHICH OBSESSIONS AND COMPULSIONS PREDOMINATE 387
XXIV. REACTIONS IN WHICH DISTURBED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND OF MEMORY PREDOMINATE 397
XXV. REACTIONS IN WHICH BODILY COMPLAINTS PRE DOMINATE 410
XXVI. REACTIONS IN WHICH ORGAN NEUROSES PREDOMINATE 433
XXVII. MANIC-DEPRESSIVE REACTIONS; INVOLUTIONAL MELANCHOLIA 447
XXVIII. SCHIZOPHRENIC REACTIONS 471
XXIX. ORGANIC PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS 497
XXX. OTHER ORGANIC PSYCHOTIC REACTIONS 518
XXXI. FEEBLE-MINDEDNESS AND STUPIDITY 532

BIBLIOGRAPHY 547
GLOSSARY 596
APPENDIX I PROJECTIVE METHODS OF EXAMINATION 611
APPENDIX Il THE MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM OF MENTAL DISEASE; STATISTICAL DATA 622
INDEX 625