The Evolution of Psychopathology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shackelford, Todd K. (Editor), Zeigler-Hill, Virgil (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Evolutionary Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Psychology, Pathological.; Psychopathology.; Cognitive Psychology.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Evolutionary Foundations of Psychiatric Compared to Non-Psychiatric Disorders
• Taking People As They Are: Evolutionary Psychopathology, Uncomplicated Depression, and the Distinction between Normal and Disordered Sadness
• Depression: Is Rumination Really Adaptive?
• The Evolution of Social Anxiety
• Jealousy, Infidelity, and the Difficulty of Diagnosing Pathology: A CBT Approach to Coping with Sexual Betrayal and the Green-Eyed Monster
• Evolved Vulnerability to Addiction: The Problem of Opiates
• Criminology’s Modern Synthesis: Remaking the Science of Crime with Darwinian Insight
• Excruciating Mental States
• Anthropathology: The Abiding Malady of the Species.