Overview
- Brings together scientific knowledge of psychopathology and evolutionary theory
- Multidisciplinary exploration of psychopathology
- World renowned scholars as contributors
Part of the book series: Evolutionary Psychology (EVOLPSYCH)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 book traces distinctive biological and cultural pathways shaping human development and their critical impact on psychiatric and medical disorders. Analyses of disparate phenomena such as jealousy, social anxiety, depressive symptoms, and antisocial behavior describe adaptive functions that have far outlasted their usefulness, or that require further study and perhaps new directions for treatment. In addition, the book’s compelling explorations of violence, greed, addiction, and suicide challenge us to revisit many of our assumptions regarding what it means to be human.
Included in the coverage:
· Evolutionary foundations of psychiatric compared to non-psychiatric disorders.
· Evolutionary psychopathology, uncomplicated depression, and the distinction between normal and disordered sadness.· Depression: is rumination really adaptive?
· A CBT approach to coping with sexual betrayal and the green-eyed monster.
· Criminology’s modern synthesis: remaking the science of crime with Darwinian insight.
· Anthropathology: the abiding malady of the species.
With its wealth of interdisciplinary viewpoints, The Evolution of Psychopathology makes an appropriate supplementary text for advanced graduate courses in the evolutionary sciences, particularly in psychology, biology, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Virgil Zeigler-Hill received his Ph.D. in social-personality psychology in 2004 from the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Oakland University. He has published more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and books. His primary research interests are in four interrelated areas: self-esteem, narcissism, cognitive representations of the self, and interpersonal relationships.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Evolution of Psychopathology
Editors: Todd K. Shackelford, Virgil Zeigler-Hill
Series Title: Evolutionary Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60576-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60575-3Published: 09 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86893-6Published: 12 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60576-0Published: 01 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2197-9898
Series E-ISSN: 2197-9901
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Psychopathology, Cognitive Psychology