PSYCHOLOGY 582: ADVANCED PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Spring, 2012
Tuesdays, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Room 323, Psychology
Instructor: Mary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D.
Office: Room 430
Phone: 621-2173
Email: mfoconnor@email.arizona.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays, 1-2pm, or by appointment
Goals
Advanced survey of current theory and research in symptoms, causes and course of the major
psychological disorders.
Ability to communicate clinical psychological research to multiple audiences (family members,
colleagues, clients, etc.)
Ability to reason through the existence of mental disorders, and the particular disorders currently
reflected by the DSM-IV (and on our syllabus).
Generalist background in genetics, neuroscience, psychopharmacology to apply current and future
research to disorders.
Readings
Below is a tentative schedule of topics and readings. The two books should be purchased at the
bookstore; the remaining readings will be available as pdf files, available at the D2L site.
Richard J. McNally (2011). What is mental illness? Belknap Press. ISBN-10: 0674046498
W. Edward Craighead, David J. Miklowitz, Linda W. Craighead (Eds) (2008). Psychopathology:
History, Diagnosis, and Empirical Foundations. Wiley. ISBN-10: 0471768618
Requirements
Your grade will be determined by a combination of:
Performance on two exams to cover lecture, discussion, and readings (70%, with 30% from Exam 1
and 40% from Exam 2).
Comments on Readings (5 commentaries, resulting in a total of 30%).
During six weeks of your choosing, you will turn in comments on the readings to me for that week.
These comments should be one page single-spaced in length and should be submitted over e-mail.
Comments are due each Monday by 10 a.m. Your commentary need not address all of the
readings for that week but should represent insights, observations, critiques, and/or questions that
occurred to you while reading the assigned articles. Examples of good commentaries include
critiques of presented theories or studies, novel insights on the relationships between different
readings (within or between different class meetings), and novel insights on the implications of the
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readings for real world issues or other issues in clinical psychology. I especially encourage you to pair
any critique you make with a proposed theoretical modification or empirical study that would extend
the state of what we know. If you have fulfilled the requirement of the assignment, you will receive 2
pts. Comments that do not reveal a sufficient amount of time and thought will receive 1 pt.
Exceptional comments that integrate information in a very novel way or expand upon the readings to
make truly insightful and interesting predictions that could conceivable lead to a publishable product
down the road will receive three points. My hope and expectation is that you will earn a 3 for some of
your commentaries, but it is unlikely to happen for every commentary.
+++ Excellent (3 pts.)
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Very Good (2 pts.)
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Good (1 pt.)
Class Date
Topics
Readings
January 17, 2012 Syllabus, orientation
January 24, 2012 Classification
Insel, T.R. (2009). Disruptive insights in psychiatry: Transforming a
clinical discipline. The Journal of Clinical Investigation, 119, 700-705.
Krueger, R.F., & Markon K.E. (2006). Reinterpreting comorbidity: a
model-based approach to understanding and classifying
psychopathology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology. 2,111-33.
January 31, 2012 Mood Disorders
Craighead, W.E., Ritschel, L.A. et al. (2008) Major depressive disorder.
In Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History,
diagnosis, and empirical foundations.
Miklowitz, D. J., & Johnson, S. (2008) Bipolar disorder. In Craighead,
Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and
empirical foundations.
February 7, 2012 Mood Disorders
Klein, D. N. (2008). Dysthymia and chronic depression. In Craighead,
Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and
empirical foundations.
Gotlib, I.H., Krasnoperova, E., Yue, D.N., & Joormann, J. (2004).
Attentional biases for negative interpersonal stimuli in clinical
depression. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, 127-135.
Neuroscience lecture
February 14,
2012
Mood/Anxiety
Disorders
Fitzgerald, P.B., Laird, A.R., Maller, J., & Daskalakis, Z.J. (2008). A
meta-analytic study of changes in brain activation in depression.
Human Brain Mapping, 29, 683-695.
Moffitt, T.E., Harrington, H., Caspi, A., Kim-Cohen, J., Goldberg, D.,
Gregory, A.M., & Poulton, R. (2007). Depression and generalized
anxiety disorder: Cumulative and sequential comorbidity in a birth
cohort followed prospectively to age 32 years. Archives of General
Psychiatry, 64, 651-660.
February 21,
2012
Anxiety Disorders
Mineka, S., & Oehlberg, K. (2008). The relevance of recent
developments in classical conditioning to understanding the etiology
and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Acta Psychologica, 127, 567-
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580.
Rowa, K., & Antony, M. (2008). Generalized anxiety disorder. In
Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History,
diagnosis, and empirical foundations.
February 28,
2012
Anxiety
Abramowitz, J. (2008) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. In Craighead,
Disorders/Catch up Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and
empirical foundations.
Arch J., & Craske, M. (2008) Panic disorder. In Craighead, Miklowitz, &
Craighead, Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical
foundations.
March 6, 2012
1st test
March 13, 2012
SPRING BREAK!
March 20, 2012
PTSD
Resick, P., Monson, C., & Rizvi, S. (2008). Posttraumatic stress
disorder. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology:
History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations.
Chapter 1-2: What is Mental Illness? Richard McNally 2011
March 27, 2012
Schizophrenia
Walker, E., Mittal, V., Tessner, K., & Trotman, H. Schizophrenia and
the psychotic spectrum. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead,
Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations.
Caspi, A., Moffitt, T.E., Cannon, M., McClay, J., Murray, R., Harrington,
H., Taylor, A., Arseneault, L., Williams, B., Braithwaite, A., Poulton, R.,
& Craig, I.W. (2005). Moderation of the effect of adolescent-onset
cannibis use on adult psychosis by a functional polymorphism in the
catechol-O-methyltransferase gene: Longitudinal evidence of a gene x
environment interaction. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 1117-1127.
Genetics lecture
April 3, 2012
Schizophrenia
Hooley, J.M. (2007). Expressed emotion and relapse of
psychopathology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 3, 329-352.
Chapter 3-4: What is Mental Illness? McNally 2011
April 10, 2012
Personality disorders Vitale, J. & Newman, J. (2008). Psychopathy as psychopathology. In
Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead, Psychopathology: History,
diagnosis, and empirical foundations.
Chapter 5: What is Mental Illness? McNally 2011
April 17, 2012
Addiction
Ray, L., Hutchison, K., & Hauser, M. (2008) Alcohol use disorders:
History, theory and diagnosis. In Craighead, Miklowitz, & Craighead,
Psychopathology: History, diagnosis, and empirical foundations.
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Baker, T.B., Piper, M.E., McCarthy, D.E., Majeskie, M.R. &, Fiore, M.C.
(2004). Addiction motivation reformulated: an affective processing
model of negative reinforcement. Psychological Review.111, 33-51.
Psychopharmacology lecture
April 24, 2012
Eating disorders
Keel, P.K. & Klump, K.L. (2003). Are eating disorders culture-bound
syndromes? Implications for conceptualizing their etiology.
Psychological Bulletin. 129:747-69.
Chapter 6: What is Mental Illness? McNally 2011
May 1, 2012
Childhood disorders Guest speaker: readings TBA
Chapters 7-8: What is Mental Illness? McNally 2011
May 7, 2012
Final exam
6-8 pm*
*unless otherwise decided