The Evolution of Suicide

• Main Author: Soper, C A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Evolutionary Psychology,
• Subjects: Psychology-Methodology.; Psychological measurement.; Psychological Methods/Evaluation.

This thought-provoking volume offers a distinctly human evolutionary analysis of a distinctly human phenomenon: suicide. Its 'pain and brain' model posits animal adaptations as the motivator for suicidal escape, and specific human cognitive adaptations as supplying the means , while also p...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Reviewing the options: Noise, adaptation, by-product
• Suicide as a by-product of pain and human cognition
• Shiltons: Lat-line, anti-suicide defenses
• Common mental disorders (CMDS) as Shiltons
• Pain-type Krols: Frontline anti-suicide mechanisms
• Brain-type Krols: Restricting access to suicide idea
• Summary, conclusion, implications.