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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Main Author: Brune, Martin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , c2008
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Online Access:Table of contents only
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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.
Physical Description:xv, 385 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-377) and index
ISBN:0199207682 (alk. paper)
9780199207688 (alk. paper)