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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300 |a xv, 385 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-377) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Principles of evolutionary theory, evolutionary psychology, and genetics -- 2. The human brain : anatomy, evolution, and function -- 3. Human life history -- 4. Causes of psychopathology -- 5. Psychiatric assessment -- 6. Autism and other pervasive developmental disorders -- 7. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- 8. Dementia -- 9. Substance abuse and substance dependence -- 10. Schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders -- 11. Affective disorders -- 12. Anxiety disorders -- 13. Eating disorders -- 14. Personality disorders -- 15. Suicidal and self-injurious behaviour -- 16. Forensic aspects of psychiatric disorders -- 17. Psychotherapy 
520 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Evolutionary psychology 
650 0 |a Mental illness   |x Etiology 
650 0 |a Psychology, Pathological 
650 0 |a Sociobiology 
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650 2 2 |a Psychopathology   |x history 
650 2 2 |a Sociobiology 
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