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The Introducing... series is a book series of graphic guides covering key thinkers and topics in philosophy, psychology and science, and many others in politics, religion, cultural studies, linguistics and other areas. Books are written by an expert in the field and illustrated, comic-book style, by a leading graphic artist.
A Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Read is a mystery novel written by William Rabkin in January, 2009. It is based on the USA Network television series Psych.The novel features the characters Shawn Spencer, Burton Guster, Henry Spencer, Juliet O'Hara, Carlton Lassiter, and Karen Vick, and is the first of a five-part series written by Rabkin.
Educators have singled out the book as a source of stories to make the topic of scientific psychology more engaging in the classroom. [8] Although it is a secondary source, Forty Studies is occasionally cited as a primary source. In addition, as of June 6, 2013, Google Scholar estimated that the book had been cited by 113 other sources. [9]
An alternate, widely used classification publication is the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), produced by the World Health Organization (WHO). [13] The ICD has a broader scope than the DSM, covering overall health as well as mental health; chapter 6 of the ICD specifically covers mental, behavioral and neurodevelopmental disorders.
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For example, Gladwell claims that prejudice can operate at an intuitive unconscious level, even in individuals whose conscious attitudes are not prejudiced. One example is the halo effect, where a person having a salient positive quality is thought to be superior in other, unrelated respects. The example used in the book is Warren G. Harding.
The following is the statement about the series as it appears on the title page of Rudolf Carnap's book The Logical Syntax of Language (1937) [1] published in the series in 1959: The purpose of The International Library is to give expression, in a convenient format at moderate price, to the remarkable developments which have recently occurred ...
Robert Whitaker. Robert Whitaker is an American journalist and author, writing primarily about medicine, science, and history. [1] He is the author of five books, three of which cover the history and practice of modern psychiatry.