Contents: Looking at abnormality -- Contemporary theories of abnormality -- The Research endeavor -- Assessing and diagnosing abnormality -- Treatments for abnormality -- Stress disorders and health psychology -- Anxiety disorders -- Somatorform and dissociative disorders -- Mood disorders -- Sucide -- Schizophrenia -- Personality disorders -- Childhood disorders -- Cognitive disorders and life - span issues -- Eating disorders -- Sexual disorders -- Substance - related disorders -- Mental health and the law.