THE BLISS BIBLIOGRAPHIC CLASSIFICATION

Outline of Class I

I          PSYCHOLOGY
I3U           Case Studies
I96            Biography (named individuals A/Z)

IAA        PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
IAJ           Schools of psychology
IAK          Psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory
IAL          Freudian psychology, including all works by Sigmund Freud
IAO              Jungian psychology, including all works by C. G. Jung
IAP               All other named schools of psycholgy, psychoanalysis by A/Z e.g.
IAP WI                     Winnicott, Donald W.

IB            RESEARCH & EXPERIMENT IN PSYCHOLOGY
IBC Q            Evidence-based research
IBN            Tests, measurement, assessment scales

IC          ANIMAL PSYCHOLOGY, ETHOLOGY
ICC     Human psychological processes, behaviour, human ethology
ICE        Stress (general)
ICI        Biological, physiological psychology
                 Add to ICI letters B/X following H in HB/HX.
ICJ         Psychological factors
                    Add to ICJ letters C/X following I in IC/IX
ICK        Social factors, cultural factors

ID          Perceptual motor processes

IE          Sensory motor processes

IF          Affective psychology, Emotions, Affect, Feelings
IFG/IFJ     Types of emotion
IFK           Cognitive processes, Cognition, Intellect

IG          Learning, eduation

IH          Thinking, reasoning, judgement

IJ       THE SUBCONSCIOUS & UNCONSCIOUS, DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY
IJK          Subconscious...
IJL             Defence mechanisms
IJP           Unconscious...
IJW        Self concept, self-image...

IK       PERSONALITY, CHARACTER...
IKB N     (Measures, tests...)
IKS           Sexual behaviour
IKT T            Deviations, perversions
IKW           Females, women
IKX            Males, men
ILC/ILH    (Persons by other characteristics)
ILF N          Couples, marriage, partnerships
ILF RG         Siblings

ILK         DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (by age)

IM          Children, child development
IMM    The family, family relations
IMR W      Adopted children
                    Add to IMR W O/S following QLM in QLM o/QLM S

IN          SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR
INO        Social interaction

IO          Communication, Discourse

IP         Socialisation

IQ         Groups, social groups, institutions, organisations
IQR            Group dynamics, processes
               (Types of groups)
IQV        Ethnopsychology, multiculturalism, racial & cultural psychology

IRC       APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
IRD          Clinical psychology
IRF          Medical psychology, psychiatry
IRF 4A          Personnel (Add to IRF 4 letters following 4 in Schedule 1A)
IRF T             Hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, mental hospitals, residential care insitutions
IRF W             Nursing, psychiatric nursing

ISB S        (Types of treatment)
                    Add to ISB S letters A/M following HNP A/HNP M e.g.
ISB T           Outcome of treatment

ISF            Community mental health, community psychiatry

ISP            Psychotherapy
ISQ B             Psychotherapeutic processes, patient therapist interaction
                       Add to ISQ B letters A/P following is in ISA/ISP
ISQ R             Counselling
ISW            Group psychotherapy, group therapy
ISX            Family therapies
ISX X       Marital therapy, couples therapy
ITT           Play therapy

IUB       MENTAL DISORDERS, MENTAL ILLNESS, TYPES OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
IUN         Mental handicap, mental retardation

IUP          (Disorders of psychological processes)
                    Add to IUP letters C/F following I in IC/IF
IUP G             Learning disorders
IUP GL               Attention deficit disorder

IUQ         Disorders of language, speech disorders
IUR G         Dyslexia, reading disorders
IUY          Autism

IVB         Psychoses
IVN          Schizophrenia, dementia praecox

IWB         Personality disorders
IWD        Behaviour disorders

IWS           Crime, criminal behaviour

IY         (Other applied psychologies)
                    Add to IY numbers and letters 4/9, A/Z from whole classification
                    *Use intercalator A to qualify from rest of Class I, e.g.: IYY S  Law, forensic psychiatry


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