Psychology is a broader field than most people realise. Abnormal (clinical) psychology forms just part of the undergraduate curriculum. Precisely what fills up the rest of the curriculum depends on where it is that you go to do your psychology degree. Some theorists have said that the field of psychology is so diverse (and embraces such different paradigms) that it doesn't deserve to be considered a unified field. Consider the following:

- advertising strategies
- organisational structures
- driving safety
- neuroscience
- concept acquisition
- language
- vision
- theories of human development

they are all part of psychology. You have behaviourists (study laws of reinforcement etc in chickens and pigeons and rats) and neuroscientists (study the mathematical or bio-chemical properties of single cell firings, or the anatomy of neurones, or populations of neurones) and social psychologists (study voting practices and racism and mass hysteria etc) and organisational psychologists (study group size and how to maximise productivity of employees) and... so on and so forth.

An undergraduate degree in psychology is typically designed to give you a taste of all the different areas of psychology that one might continue on with.

And continue on with one needs to do...

It can be a worthwhile experience, don't get me wrong. But people typically do discover that the experience is a little different from what one had supposed. I remembered thinking this while worrying about visual rotation tasks with perceptual processing... And worrying about how to analyse the stats of Chomsky the Chicken's preference for puffed wheat over wheat... Abnormal psychology forms a tiny little part... And it isn't until grad school (maybe 4 years down the track or even 7 years down the track that one gets to do what one thought about doing...) That being said... One does have to start somewhere. And... One does have to learn to communicate with others (and with the established literature) in order to have others understand (and take) your views seriously. You might even get to have clients (to help) in about 7 years...

It is a long haul. That being said: Is it worth it? You bet. :-)