The evolution of psychopathology / Todd K. Shackelford, Virgil Zeigler-Hill, editors.
This review of recent evolutionary theories on psychopathology takes on controversies and contradictions both with established psychological thought and within the evolutionary field itself. Opening with the ancestral origins of the familiar biopsychosocial model of psychological conditions, the boo...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Springer) |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham :
Springer,
[2017]
|
| Series: | Evolutionary psychology (Series)
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Contents; Contributors; Evolutionary Foundations of Psychiatric Compared to Nonpsychiatric Disorders; Introduction; General Background; Relevance of Evolutionary Social Sciences for Medicine; An Evolutionary Social Behavioral Sciences Approach to Medical Disorders; Differences in the Evolutionary Biology and Cultural Psychobiology of Medical and Nonmedical Disorders (CMI and CPI); General Considerations; Factors Shaping Biopsychosocial Character of Medical Disorders; Evolutionary Imperatives Shaped Social Environments.
- Evolutionary Imperatives and Necessities Shaped the Internal Environments of the Genus Homo Architecture and Manufacture of Health Problems and Pathologies; Intra- and Intersystem Connectedness and Effects; Explaining Distal Effects in Proximal Terms; Additional Considerations; Comment; Evolutionary Focus: A Complement to the Categorization Approach in Psychiatry; General Considerations; A Prototype of Evolutionary Impressionability; Conclusions; References.
- Taking People as They Are: Evolutionary Psychopathology, Uncomplicated Depression, and Distinction between Normal and Disordered Sadness Introduction; Why Is Evolutionary Psychopathology Important?; The Struggle to See Ourselves as We Are: Some Historical Asides; The Challenge of Valid Diagnosis; The Special Challenge of Validly Diagnosing Depressive Disorder; How Do You Tell a Disorder from a Non-disorder? The Harmful Dysfunction Evolution-Based Analysis of the Concept of Medical Disorder; DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Major Depressive Disorder.
- The Ubiquity and Heterogeneity of DSM-Defined Major Depression Uncomplicated Depression and the Bereavement Exclusion; Objections to the 2007 Study; Recurrence of Depression; Suicide; Generalized Anxiety Disorder as a Predictive Validator of Major Depression; Objections to Prospective Validators; Durational Limit for Uncomplicated Episodes; Conclusion; References; Depression: Is Rumination Really Adaptive?; Introduction; An Illustrative Case of Depressive Rumination; What is Rumination?; The Analytical Rumination Hypothesis; Metacognitive Therapy.
- Comparing the Analytical Rumination Hypothesis with Metacognitive Therapy Findings from Clinical Trials Implementing Metacognitive Therapy; Process Research: Is the Actual Change Due to the Specified Treatment Model?; Discussion: Is Rumination Adaptive?; Conclusions; References; The Evolution of Social Anxiety; Introduction; The Benefits of Studying SA in Nonhuman Species; Building an Evolutionary Model of Social Anxiety; Clinical Models of SA; Evolutionary Models of SA; Challenges to Existing Evolutionary SA Models; The Reality of Primate Conflict Behavior.