This course emphasizes the scientific inquiry into abnormal psychology while stressing both the depth of human suffering and the social costs associated with this subject. Abnormal psychological conditions are explored through a combination of biological, surface-level and depth-level theoretical perspectives on important facets of the field of abnormal psychology. Issues of assessment, labeling, and how to intervene into the problems associated with abnormal psychological conditions are explored from the same biological, surface and depth perspectives on abnormal functioning and ways of living. Prerequisite: PSY 1500 General Psychology