Abnormal Psychology Perspectives

WILLIAM L. MARSHALL and PHILIP FIRESTONE

Abnormal Psychology Perspectives

Toronto, ON: Prentice-Hall Allyn & Bacon Canada, 1999, xxv + 598 pp. (ISBN 0-13-589748-3, C$90.95, Hardcover) (Study Guide: ISBN 0-13-589772-6, C$21.95)

Reviewed by HARVEY P. MANDEL and WENDY HAMPSON

Those of us who teach abnormal psychology to Canadian undergraduates have been waiting for a textbook like this for far too long. Until now, Canadian faculty had to choose among a number of well-written American texts and then augment the text with Canadian readings. It is not that Canadian research is absent in American textbooks. Often it is blended into the presentation of …