Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health 1st Edition

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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SKU: DMS_55848 Categories: Mental - Behavioral Sciences, Neuro Tags: Epidemiology Readings, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, public health

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Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health First Edition

by Riadh Abed (Editor), Paul St John-Smith (Editor)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ RCPsych Publications; 1st edition (December 31, 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
FORMAT: ORIGINAL PDF/PRINT REPLICA
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1316516563
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1316516560

About the Author

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. He is a former (founding) Chair of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group at the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is currently its Finance Officer. He is also Secretary of the Section of Evolutionary Psychiatry at the World Psychiatric Association. He has been interested in the application of evolutionary theory to the understanding of mental disorder and has published novel evolutionary theories on eating disorders, OCD and schizophrenia.

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. He has had interests in adult general psychiatry, psychopharmacology, evidence-based medicine, substance abuse and application of evolutionary theory to the understanding of mental disorder.