Models of Psychopathology

This book explores current relational models of psychopathology that undergird a great many conflicts and destructive outcomes in family and intimate relationships. These models have similar features and can be considered as a group. They are all: (1) generational; (2) relational; and (3) fundamentally reactive processes stemming from existing psychopathology.

Lisa M. Hooper has published and has done research on the Parentification model, as one variations of the DDT (Hooper, 2007; Hooper at al., 2011a, 2011b). Luciano LAbate has been responsible for resuscitating the DDT and for seeing the other models as related and derived in many ways from this model. Laura G. Sweeney has had a great deal of personal experience with the Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). She has published chapters on various paradigms and co-edited one book on Research on Writing Approaches in Mental Health with LAbate (2011). Giovanna Gainesini has published in the area of Bullying. Peter Jankowski, is eminently qualified to write about the Stockholm Syndrome