Evolutionary Psychiatry
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Evolutionary Psychiatry

Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

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Evolutionary Psychiatry

Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

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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.

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Publisher
RCPsych Publications
Year
2022
ISBN
9781009035217
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Psychiatry & Mental Health

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Reviews
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter 1 Introduction to Evolutionary Psychiatry
  11. Chapter 2 The Biopsychosocial Model Advanced by Evolutionary Theory
  12. Chapter 3 Hominin Evolution I: The Origins of Homo sapiens
  13. Chapter 4 Hominin Evolution II: Sapiens, Masters of the Known Universe
  14. Chapter 5 Hunter-Gatherers, Mismatch and Mental Disorder
  15. Chapter 6 Why Do Mental Disorders Persist?: Evolutionary Foundations for Psychiatry
  16. Chapter 7 Anxiety Disorders in Evolutionary Perspective
  17. Chapter 8 Evolutionary Perspectives on Depression
  18. Chapter 9 On the Randomness of Suicide: An Evolutionary, Clinical Call to Transcend Suicide Risk Assessment
  19. Chapter 10 Evolutionary Perspectives on Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
  20. Chapter 11 Evolutionary Perspectives on Eating Disorders
  21. Chapter 12 Substance Abuse and Evolution
  22. Chapter 13 The Social Function of Alcohol from an Evolutionary Perspective
  23. Chapter 14 Evolutionary Perspectives on Childhood Trauma
  24. Chapter 15 Evolutionary Perspectives on Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  25. Chapter 16 Maternal Negativity and Child Maltreatment: How Evolutionary Perspectives Contribute to a Layered and Compassionate Understanding
  26. Chapter 17 Alzheimer's Disease as a Disease of Evolutionary Mismatch, with a Focus on Reproductive Life History
  27. Chapter 18 Psychopharmacology and Evolution
  28. Chapter 19 What the Evolutionary and Cognitive Sciences Offer the Sciences of Crime and Justice
  29. Chapter 20 Evolutionary Thinking and Clinical Care of Psychiatric Patients
  30. Index