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Originally Posted by Travelinglady
Hi! Of course, colleges offer intro psych text books, so you might see about getting a college textbook online. They are usually called something like "Introduction to Psychology" or as in your particular interest, "Introduction to Abnormal Psychology." Get the newest one you can, since you would want one that takes into account the new DSM.  
(I used to be a college professor.)
Texts do run high, alas. I about fall over when my college-aged son tells me the prices these days. |
Would they really incorporate the dsm 5 within a year of release? Having written textbook chapters I think that seems kind of fast...took us about 6 months to write the text for one chapter....by the time we got a revised version of text back it had been about 6 months and we really didn't want to add new info since it had already been edited then then the collection of everything from the other authors took about a year so the text was about 2 years out of date before even being published.
One option though if you do want a newer textbook is just to rent it which you can do on amazon....using the kindle reader. It's a lot cheaper.