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Darwinian psychiatry / Michael McGuire, Alfonzo Troisi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGuire, Michael T., 1929-2016, author.
- Troisi, Alfonso, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental illness--Genetic aspects.
- Mental illness.
- Mental illness--Etiology.
- Genetic psychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford, [England] : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considers evolutionary theory as central to the discussion of human behaviour and discusses ways in which evolutionary concepts can inform psychiatry. The authors examine how some of the prominent features of mental disorders can be seen as adaptive responses to the environment and life's circumstances.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Darwinian Psychiatry: The Context
- Ch. 2. Diagnosing and Explaining Mental Conditions
- Ch. 3. Evolutionary Concepts Important to Psychiatry
- Ch. 4. A Theory of Behavior
- Ch. 5. Mechanisms, Symptoms, and Affects
- Ch. 6. Information Recognition and Signaling
- Ch. 7. Evolutionary Models of Depression
- Ch. 8. Regulation-Dysregulation Theory and Condition Triggering
- Ch. 9. Personality Conditions
- Ch. 10. Anorexia Nervosa
- Ch. 11. Schizophrenia
- Ch. 12. Phobias
- Ch. 13. Other Conditions
- Ch. 14. Dysthymic Disorder: A Study of Infrastructural Suboptimality
- Ch. 15. Intervention Strategies
- Ch. 16. Key Points.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-026184-6
- 1-280-47027-5
- 9786610470273
- 1-4237-5981-8
- 0-19-535374-9
- 1-60256-229-6
- OCLC:
- 236342726
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