| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 321 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Evolutionary psychiatry attempts to explain and examine the development and prevalence of psychiatric disorders through the lens of evolutionary and adaptationist theories. In this edited volume, leading international evolutionary scholars present a variety of Darwinian perspectives that will encourage readers to consider 'why' as well as 'how' mental disorders arise. Using insights from comparative animal evolution, ethology, anthropology, culture, philosophy and other humanities, evolutionary thinking helps us to re-evaluate psychiatric epidemiology, genetics, biochemistry and psychology. It seeks explanations for persistent heritable traits shaped by selection and other evolutionary processes, and reviews traits and disorders using phylogenetic history and insights from the neurosciences as well as the effects of the modern environment. By bridging the gap between social and biological approaches to psychiatry, and encouraging bringing the evolutionary perspective into mainstream psychiatry, this book will help to inspire new avenues of research into the causation and treatment of mental disorders.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Riadh Abed is a retired Consultant Psychiatrist, Medical Director, and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Sheffield. He is currently working for the Mental Health Tribunal Service in England. Paul St John-Smith is a retired Consultant Psychiatrist, who has worked as an in-patient and community consultant as well as in dual diagnosis in the NHS. He is currently Chair of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists |
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Print version record |
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Mental illness -- Etiology.
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Genetic psychology.
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Mental illness -- Genetic aspects.
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Mental Disorders -- etiology
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Psychiatry -- history
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Genetic psychology.
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Mental illness -- Etiology.
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Mental illness -- Genetic aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abed, Riadh, editor.
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St. John-Smith, Paul, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781009030564 |
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1009030566 |
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