Important Names In Abnormal Psychology

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Bleuler

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Coined the term schizophrenia

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Beck

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Cognitive behavior therapist known for his therapy for depression

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Dix

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19th-century American advocate of asylum reform

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Ellis

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Cognitive behavior therapist known for his rational-emotive therapy

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Freud

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Developed psychoanalysis

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Kraepelin

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Developed system in the 19th century for classifying mental disorders; DSM can be considered to be a descendent of this system

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Pinel

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Reformed French asylums in the late 18th century

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Rogers

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Developed client-centered therapy, a therapy that was based upon the concept of unconditional positive regard

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Rosenhan

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Investigated the effects of being labeled mentally ill by having pseudopatients admitted into mental hospitals

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Seligman

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Formulated learned helplessness theory of depression

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Szasz

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Suggested that most of the mental disorders treated by clinicians are not really mental disorders; wrote “The Myth of Mental Illness”