Darwinian psychiatry

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Darwinian psychiatry

Michael McGuire, Alfonzo Troisi

Oxford University Press, 1998

  • cloth : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-331) and index

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Can evolutionary theory explain depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders? The authors re-examine this old question in light of current research and show that evolution may provide the essential framework for understanding both everyday human behavior and a range of mental disorders. Their discussion includes up-to-date research on emotions, moods, symptoms, and mental processing. The authors make a compelling case for the view that prominent features of mental disorders are simply adaptive responses to the environment and life's circumstances and that these responses can only be understood in the context of our long evolutionary past.

Table of Contents

  • I. Introduction
  • 1. Darwinian psychiatry - the context
  • 2. Diagnosing and explaining disorders/conditions
  • II. An evolutionary context for disorders
  • 3. Evolutionary concepts important to psychiatry
  • 4. A theory of behavior
  • 5. Mechanisms, emotions, moods, symptoms, and affects
  • 6. Information processing
  • 7. Evolutionary models of disorders/conditions
  • 8. Regulation-dysregulation theory
  • III. Disorders and conditions in evolutionary context
  • 9. Personality disorders
  • 10. Anorexia nervosa
  • 11. Schizophrenia
  • 12. Phobias
  • 13. Other conditions
  • 14. Dysthymic disorder: a study of infrastructural suboptimality
  • IV. Treatment in evolutionary context
  • 15. Treatment in evolutionary context
  • V. Conclusion
  • 16. Summary and conclusion

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