Textbook of evolutionary psychiatry : the origins of psychopathology
This book presents a new integrative approach to understanding psychopathological conditions, embracing cognition, emotion, behaviour, and their nature-nurture interactions. Central to this approach is the introduction of human evolution into the psychiatric model, in a quest to find out why the hum...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press ,
c2008
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
| Summary: | This book presents a new integrative approach to understanding psychopathological conditions, embracing cognition, emotion, behaviour, and their nature-nurture interactions. Central to this approach is the introduction of human evolution into the psychiatric model, in a quest to find out why the human mind and brain evolved in the way it did. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 385 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-377) and index |
| ISBN: | 0199207682 (alk. paper) 9780199207688 (alk. paper) |