The Maladapted Mind: Classic Readings in Evolutionary PsychopathologySimon Baron-Cohen 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. |
Contents
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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The Maladapted Mind: Classic Readings in Evolutionary Psychopathology Simon Baron-Cohen Limited preview - 2013 |
The Maladapted Mind: Classic Readings in Evolutionary Psychopathology Simon Baron-Cohen Limited preview - 1997 |
The Maladapted Mind: Classic Readings in Evolutionary Psychopathology Simon Baron-Cohen Limited preview - 2013 |
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