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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This is the first book to bring together classic and contemporary readings illustrating the new subdiscipline, evolutionary psychopathology. Psychology has been one of the slowest of the biological sciences to be "Darwinized", that is, integrated with evolutionary theory. A major milestone in this transition was the publication of Barkow et al's The Adapted Mind in 1992, which has become a seminal book for the new field of evolutionary psychology. Baron-Cohen's new book The Maladapted Mind takes this approach one step further in highlighting how mechanisms in the brain which normally enable us to be well-adapted to survival in our environment can occasionally malfunction, leading individuals to develop what we recognize as psychiatric disorder. Each chapter demonstrates how evolutionary arguments are being brought to bear on the study of a different psychiatric condition or pathological behavior. These include anxiety, depression, psychopathic personality and autism. This new framework should lead to new insights into the aetiology of psychiatric conditions, and at the same time illustrate how the study of such mental abnormalities can reveal the existence of basic neurocognitive mechanisms in the 'normal' mind that have been overlooked. This book is aimed primarily at advanced students and researchers in the fields of psychiatry, abnormal psychology, biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, and cognitive science. Contents: S. Baron-Cohen: Preface: Why Evolutionary Psychopathology? R. Nesse, G. Williams: Are Mental Disorders Diseases? M. McGuire, I. Marks, R. Nesse, A. Troisi: Evolutionary Biology: A Basic Science for Psychiatry? D. Wilson: Evolutionary Epidemiology: Darwinian Theory in the Service of Medicine and Psychiatry I. Marks, R. Nesse: Fear and Fitness: An Evolutionary Analysis of Anxiety Disorders R. Nesse: An Evolutionary Perspective on Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia R. James Blair: A Cognitive Developmental Approach to Morality: Investigating the Psychopath M. Daly, M. Wilson: Evolutionary Social Psychology and Family Homicide L. Mealey: The Sociobiology of Sociopathy: An Integrated Evolutionary Model L.A. Dugatkin: The Evolution of the "Con-Artist" S. Baron-Cohen: How to Build a Baby That Can Read Minds: Cognitive Mechanisms in Mindreading J. Price, L. Sloman, R. Gardner, P. Gilbert, P. Rohde: The Social Competition Hypothesis of Depression M. McGuire, A. Troisi, M. Raleigh: Depression in an Evolutionary Context.
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primary sociopaths, equilibrial frequency, secondary sociopaths, common final pathway constraints, secondary sociopathy, ritual agonistic behaviour, evolutionary psychopathology, primary sociopathy, patch travel time, characteristic ontogenesis, dedicated neural architecture, involuntary subordinate strategy, evolutionary epidemiology, cough disorder, conventional transgressions, triadic representations, genetic posterity, frequency dependent model, dyadic representations, welfare justifications, distress cues, cheating strategy, sexual proprietariness, cheating strategies, gaze response Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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A young woman recently came to the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the University of Michigan, complaining of attacks of overwhelming fear that had come out of the blue several times each week for the past ten months. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary sociopaths, equilibrial frequency, secondary sociopaths, common final pathway constraints, secondary sociopathy, ritual agonistic behaviour, evolutionary psychopathology, primary sociopathy, patch travel time, characteristic ontogenesis, dedicated neural architecture, involuntary subordinate strategy, evolutionary epidemiology, cough disorder, conventional transgressions, triadic representations, genetic posterity, frequency dependent model, dyadic representations, welfare justifications, distress cues, cheating strategy, sexual proprietariness, cheating strategies, gaze response Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, Archives of General Psychiatry, Cambridge University Press, Developmental Psychology, Maynard Smith, American Psychiatric Association, United States, American Journal of Psychiatry, Ethol Sociobiol, Aldine de Gruyter, American Society of Criminology, Mindreading System, Psychological Review, Basic Books, Journal of Personality, Sage Pub, International Journal, University of California, Department of Psychiatry, Ethol Soctobiol, John Wiley, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Lawrence Erlbaum Pub New!
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- Child Development by A.Christine Harris on page 233, page 236, and page 239
- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta on page 110, page 176, and page 186
- Fears and Phobias by Isaac Meyer Marks on page 71, and page 82
- Abnormal Psychology by G. Terence Wilson on page 176, and page 187
- Social Science S/G on page 182, and page 280
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- Genes on the Couch: Explorations in Evolutionary Psychotherapy by Paul Gilbert on 4 pages
- Genes on the Couch: Explorations in Evolutionary Psychotherapy by Paul Gilbert on page 145, page 171, and page 346
- Emotion: The Science of Sentiment by Dylan Evans in Back Matter
- Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences (Research In Biopolitics) (Research In Biopolitics) (Advances in Cognition and Educational Practice) by A. Somit on page 228
- Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies by Peter Gluckman in Back Matter
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