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The purpose of this chapter is to provide a general orientation to psychology as a science which will serve as the basis for the constructs to be defined in a later chapter and to place the actual work of case analysis into a framework of general psychological theory. The concepts used in psychopathology are very special to the field, many of them having originated in psychoanalysis and allied movements. Historically, they have represented a rival interpretation of human nature quite at variance with the most commonly accepted doctrines of experimental and general psychology. To a certain extent many of the concepts of psychoanalysis still remain in this category; but over the past several decades there has been a gradual reconciliation between the two lines of scientific development. At the present time it is possible to define many of the concepts of psychopathology in terms of the general behavioral theory which today characterizes American psychological thought. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)