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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| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press ,
c2008
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- 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