The Maladapted Mind: Classic Readings in Evolutionary Psychopathology

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Simon Baron-Cohen
Psychology Press, 1997 - Medical - 286 pages
Newly available in paperback, this is the first book to bring together classic and contemporary readings illustrating the new subdiscipline, evolutionary psychopathology. Each chapter demonstrates how evolutionary arguments are being brought to bear on the study of a different psychiatric condition or pathalogical behaviour. The Maladapted Mind is aimed primarily at primarily at advanced students and researchers in the fields of psychiatry, abnormal psychology, biological anthropology, evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
 

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Are mental disorders diseases?
1
A basic science for psychiatry?
23
Darwinian theory in the service
39
An evolutionary analysis of anxiety disorders
57
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1995 18 523541 Publisher
71
An evolutionary perspective on panic disorder and agoraphobia
73
Evolutionary social psychology and family homicide
115
The evolution of the conartist
189
The social competition hypothesis of depression
241
Depression in evolutionary context
255
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